Project Milestone One Guidelines and Rubric The milestone assignments will provide you with the opportunity to reflect on four organizational scenarios to demonstrate your understanding of leadership in organizational behavior. These assignments are designed to develop your skills in analyzing various organizational leadership situations dealing with skills assessment, team-building, vision and culture, problem-solving, and conflict management. Prompt: For Milestone One: Teams, you will submit a short paper or presentation assessing how your chosen leader Bill Gates structured the organization and his or her executive team, and evaluating the best practices used by the leader. In this assignment, you will use the text and your research on your chosen leader. In the assignment, identify specific leadership actions used by Bill Gates to build and structure a productive organization and culture such as policy, communication, and training. Explain at least two examples of best practices for leaders in team development and communication in the organization using the three dimensions of energy, engagement, and exploration. Identify planning methods used by the leader to align teams with organizational vision, and explain actions that built and fostered team development and teamwork. Include the utilization of resources to build teams, including training, projects, and programs. You will be evaluated on the analysis of executive team-building practices, theory, concepts and techniques; identification and summary of results of leadership actions that structured the organization for success; application of team-building and leadership action examples; critical thinking applied to your work product; and the articulation of your response in the writing process. Guidelines for Submission: Milestone One: Teams must be in APA style. Include a separate title and reference page, an introduction, subheadings, and a conclusion. The requirements for this assignment are 2 to 4 pages in length (not including title and reference pages), double-spaced, 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins, and at least two discipline-appropriate citations. Instructor Feedback: This activity uses an integrated rubric in Blackboard. Students can view instructor feedback in the Grade Center. For more information, review these instructions. Critical Elements Proficient (100%) Analysis of Executive TeamBuilding Practices, Theory, Concepts, and Techniques Explores some cognitive factors associated with executive team-building through some detail and analysis to make informed conclusions Summary of Results of Leadership Actions Related to Organizational Behavior Best Practices Accurately identifies and summarizes leadership actions and results with some details of organizational structure to exemplify success Needs Improvement (80%) Not Evident (0%) Value Does not explore cognitive factors Explores minimal cognitive factors associated with associated with effective executive executive team-building team- building through minimal 25 through detail and detail and analysis to make informed analysis and does not conclusions make informed conclusions Does not identify and Identifies and summarizes some summarize leadership leadership actions and results, but actions and results and with insufficient detail of does not provide 25 organizational structure to exemplify sufficient detail of success organizational structure to exemplify success Application of Examples Critical Thinking Articulation of Response Earned Total Uses one example and Applies some teamDoes not correctly apply applies most teambuilding and leadership any team-building and building and leadership actions that contribute leadership actions that actions that contribute to the effectiveness of contribute to the 20 to the effectiveness of an organization effectiveness of an an organization correctly correctly within the organization correctly within the analysis analysis within the analysis Demonstrates moderate Demonstrates minimal Does not demonstrate exploration of issues and exploration of issues exploration of issues and ideas before accepting and ideas before ideas before accepting 20 or forming an opinion or accepting or forming an or forming an opinion or conclusion opinion or conclusion conclusion Submission has 10 significant errors related Submission has critical Submission has no major to citations, grammar, errors related to errors related to syntax, and organization citations, grammar, citations, grammar, that negatively impact syntax, or organization syntax, or organization readability and that prevent articulation of main understanding of ideas ideas 100%
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