PRACTICE: SHARED VISION AND TEAM LEARNING
Instructions for EDD8020 Sample Paper Template Week Seven
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Introduction Introduction Identify and briefly describe your target audience (individual or group). Dr. J's Notes: Choose an organization you are familiar with as this course is about Organizational Learning. Remember the name and description of this course: EDD8020 - The Dynamics of Organizational Improvement. Course Description: This course provides an introduction to fundamental systems principles and skills of leadership in organizations with a focus on continuous organizational learning and improvement processes. You will reflect on personal values and behaviors and those of organizations and explore basic principles of systems thinking, systems mapping, and approaches to inquiry cycles in relation to leadership processes and organizational change. In addition, you will apply disciplines of learning organizations and a change model to a problem of practice to real-world leadership challenges.
Shared Vision and Team Learning
In your own words, explain to your audience the meaning of shared vision and team learning.
• Why are developing a shared vision and team learning opportunities important organizational disciplines?
• How do the principles of team learning and shared vision interact to strengthen and reinforce one another?
• How do team learning and shared vision provide a foundation for engaging in or strengthening systems thinking?
Support Needed for this Section
• Your explanation should be responsive to the perspectives of your audience.
• Provide specific support for your statements and assertions as you draw connections among the five disciplines and your examples.
• Your examples should include specific details that promote greater understanding of shared vision and team learning that you want to convey to your audience.
Describe the concepts of shared vision and team learning. 20% Distinguished Category: Describes the concepts of shared vision and learning. Description includes very well chosen quotations from the text and author’s own highly insightful summary and interpretation. Dr. J's Note: Quotes are Paraphrased Apply the concept of shared vision to address issues and opportunities for improvement in an organization. 15% Distinguished Category: Applies the concept of shared vision to address issues and opportunities in an organization. Specific and accurate references to personal mastery are consistently used to support the analysis, and its impact on the organization is thoroughly and insightfully explained.
Change Management Strategies
Explain how you would recommend the organization use change management strategies to ensure the development and/or fulfillment of a shared vision and team learning. Dr. J's Notes: You are using change management strategies. However, these strategies have a focus or purpose for development and/or fulfillment of a shared vision and team learning.
Apply the concept of team learning to address issues and opportunities for improvement in an organization. 15% Distinguished Category: Applies the concept of team learning to address issues and opportunities in an organization. Specific and accurate references to personal mastery are consistently used to support the analysis, and its impact on the organization is thoroughly and insightfully explained.
Organizational Changes
Explain to your audience what organizational changes you would recommend that could enhance a shared vision and team learning among diverse stakeholders in the organization. Dr. J's Notes: Once again, you are recommending changes within the organization. This time it meant to enhance or improve the shared vision and team learning as described above.
Analyze how shared vision and team learning interact with one another and support systems thinking. 15% Distinguished Category: Analyzes how shared vision and team learning interact with one another and systems thinking in a detailed and compelling manner that includes specific examples.
Continuous Improvement and Learning
At the end of your paper include at least three questions about shared vision and team learning as they relate to your audience that, when thoughtfully considered, might promote continuous improvement and organizational learning. Dr. J's Notes: The questions are related to shared vision and team learning as described above. Important Note: No numbering or bullet points.
Create a set of questions that will foster inquiry by a target audience on organizational change. 15% Distinguished Category: Creates a set of questions specific to the situation of the target audience that are very likely foster to inquiry by a target audience on organizational change.
Conclusion A Conclusion needs to be substantive. As a doctoral student the paper must demonstrate critical analysis. When writing, ask yourself: did you fully and completely address the initial thesis statement you developed in you Introduction? Important Note: The Conclusion is not a place to include citations or new information. It is your thoughtful wrap-up and evaluation of the thesis statement made at the beginning of your paper.
Develop flow with organizational tactics that recognize the relationship between the main topic and subtopics. 10% Distinguished Category: Develops flow in text through paragraphing, transitional words, and key phrases, with an evident main idea in each paragraph.
References [Provide references to the material you consulted in creating this project. Follow APA guidelines when creating your references, including hanging indent form. The following will help you get started as these sources are properly formatted with double spacing and hanging indentations.]
Adhere to the rules of grammar, usage, and mechanics. 10% Distinguished Category: Exhibits strict and nearly flawless adherence to the rules of grammar, usage, and mechanics.
Additional Requirements:
In your writing, try to make specific connections between the concept(s) in The Fifth Discipline and organizational details. Avoid writing in vague generalizations that do little to demonstrate a grasp of the concept or enlighten your audience. Audience: Include a statement that identifies the audience at beginning of the paper and a set of questions for the audience at the end. Font and Font Size: 12-point Times Roman, single spaced. Dr. J's Note: Double Spaced Length: A minimum of 300 words. References: As needed to support your ideas. APA Style and Format: Format your paper using appropriate APA style and formatting.
My Recommendation: Follow the APA Manual Sixth Edition and use double spacing. See the Grading Rubric copy provided below.