NOTE: All submitted work is to be your team’s original work. You may not use any work from another student, the Internet, or an online clearinghouse. You are expected to understand the Academic Dishonesty and Plagiarism Policy and know that it is your responsibility to learn about instructor and general academic expectations concerning proper citation sources as specified in the APA Publication Manual, 7th Ed. (Students are held accountable for in-text citations and an associated reference list only).

Team Deliverable #1 is due Tuesday at 11:59 p.m. eastern time of week 2 unless otherwise changed by the instructor.

Purpose:

This project aims to understand what it means to be a leader within an organization and to use the characteristics and skills required of a leader in a real-world application.

Skill Building:

You are also completing this project to help you develop research, critical thinking, teamwork, writing, and developing a job announcement. Writing is critical because, in business, it is important to convey information clearly and concisely and to develop a personal brand. Developing a personal brand is important because it is the ongoing process of establishing an image or impression in the minds of others, especially those in positions above you. Having a strong personal brand can lead to opportunities that include promotions.

Skills: Research, Writing, Critical Thinking, Developing a Personal Brand, Job Announcement

Outcomes Met With This Project:

• Use leadership theories, assessment tools, and an understanding of the role of ethics, values, and attitudes to evaluate and enhance personal leadership skills;
• Assess the interactions between the external environment and the organization to foster responsible and effective leadership and organizational practices;
• Collaborate in teams utilizing effective communication techniques;
• Develop individual awareness, style, and communication skills that enhance leadership skills;
• Integrate and apply analytical principles and skills to make a strategic decision.

This project is the first of three group projects. Members of the team will collaborate, acting as a self-managed team. As a self-managed team, members take collective responsibility for ensuring the team operates effectively, sets team goals, manages time, makes decisions, solves problems, communicates frequently and clearly, and meets the deadline. You may have team members that are located all over the world. Working in a virtual environment should not stop the self-managed team from successfully reaching the final goal. All work must appear in the Group area. If you work outside of the group area, you will not receive credit for the collaborative work.

As a self-managed team, the following is the work for which team members are responsible:

• Setting goals;
• Determining roles and responsibilities for each team member;
• Actively participating and communicating in the Group area of the classroom;
• Completing the agreed-upon work before the deadline;
• Resolving problems and issues among the team members;
• Agreeing on a final product as a group (consensus decision making);
• Submitting the final product into the Assignment Folder (all students will submit into the Assignment Folder).

Collaboration starts by having one member of the team go into the Group area and create two new threads:

• Team Responsibilities
• Post Your Memo Here

Under the first thread, each team will establish a mission, set goals, determine the roles and responsibilities of each team member, and agree on a decision-making process. The Sample Team Agreement may be used or modified as desired to meet the team's needs for what is requested. Sample Team Agreement usage is entirely optional. The team will have a schedule for completing tasks essential to the project, with the name of the responsible individual and the submission deadline for each assigned task, which should avoid setting task deadlines for the last day. The Sample Project Plan may be used or modified as desired to meet the team's needs for what is requested. Sample Project Plan usage is entirely optional.

Post your Memo from Week 1 into the second thread. You will discuss the critical information in the memos and, along with the instructions below, will write a job announcement in a narrative format.

All students on the team will receive the same grade unless a member fails to participate or does not carry his or her weight in completing the project. These students will receive a zero or a reduced grade depending on the level of participation and contribution to the team project. It is each team member's responsibility to post throughout the week. Even if students in the group do not post, you will continue to post throughout the week, continuing the work and supporting the ideas presented.

Teams can consist of 2, 3, or 4 students but should not consist of more than four students. Two students can easily do the project. Team members are responsible for completing the project even if a team member does not fulfill his or her obligation of submitting the agreed-upon work. The project cannot be completed individually, and students cannot choose to create teams other than those created by the instructor.

If the project is submitted after the due date, the Late Assignment policy is applicable. No extensions beyond the due date are given to teams as the expectation is that student on the team picks up the slack.

Instructions:

Step 1: Course Materials

For this project, you are required to use the case scenario facts and the course materials. External sources are not permitted. You are not researching on the Internet or using resources from outside the course. You are expected to answer the requirements identified below, showing the connection between the case scenario facts and the course materials. Using course materials goes beyond defining terms and explains the 'why and how' of a situation. Avoid merely making statements but close the loop of the discussion by explaining how something happens or why something happens, which focuses on importance and impact. In closing the loop, you will demonstrate the ability to think clearly and rationally, showing an understanding of the logical connections between the ideas presented in a case scenario, the course materials, and the question(s) being asked. Using one or two in-text citations from the course material throughout the entire paper will not earn many points on an assignment. The use of a variety of course materials is expected to support what is presented consistently. The support must be relevant and applicable to the topic being discussed. Points are not earned for mentioning a term or concept but by clearly and thoroughly explaining or discussing the question at hand.

Step 2: Your Role

Your group will act as a workgroup requested to draft a job announcement by Charles Monk, Director of Talent Management, Life Science Nutraceuticals, Inc. (LSN).

Your group will create a job announcement that can be placed on Indeed.com by incorporating the memorandum details from each group member’s memo from Week 1, from the course materials from Week 1 and Week 2 and the Company Profile. You must use a mix of the course materials and not be dependent on the company profile or the memos. You are not lifting chunks of information directly from the company profile but taking key concepts and turning them into aspects of the job announcement.

The group should seek to comply with the requirements of the Indeed website. [Note: Your team is not actually submitting on Indeed.com, but the quality has to be good enough for submission. At the same time, do not copy anything from Indeed.com, as this group assignment has to be your original work.]

Step 3: Complete the LSN Leadership Competencies Table

The LSN Competencies Table will help your group determine the leadership competencies important for leadership at LSN critical for the Job Announcement. See the directions for completing that table in the attached document LSN Leadership Competencies Table.

The identified competencies are required to appear in the job announcement and explanatory document.

Step 4: Completing the Job Announcement

To complete the job announcement:

• Define the term ‘leader’ that fits LSN. You are not taking an existing definition and applying it to LSN. You must create an original definition.
• Identify the leadership competencies the new leaders at LSN will possess to accomplish its vision.
• Identify the leadership style(s) encouraged by LSN's definition.

The job announcement must have a narrative and is not a compilation of bullets for the leadership aspect of the project. The job announcement must comply with the requirements set out by Indeed.com. Remember that this job announcement relates to leadership.

Step 5: Explanatory Document

• In the same document, create a title page with the course name and number, project name, and team member names. Below the Job Announcement:

• Write the explanatory document using Times New Roman, 12” font, double-spaced with headings that explains:

• How and why the job announcement reflects the themes and specific readings from Week 1 and Week 2.
• The reasoning for the choice of language used in the job announcement. Be specific.
• Make sure the responses to these requirements provide support for the reasoning and conclusions from the course material. When using source material, in-text citations and associated references in a reference list must exist.

Step 6: Review the Project

• Read the grading rubric for the project. Use the grading rubric while completing the project to ensure all requirements are met to lead to the highest possible grade.

• Third-person writing is required. Third-person means that there are no words such as “I, me, my, we, or us” (first-person writing), nor is there use of “you or your” (second-person writing). If uncertain how to write in the third person, view this link: http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/first-second-and-third- person.

• Contractions are not used in job announcements, so do not use them.

• Paraphrase and do not use direct quotation marks. This means you do not use more than four consecutive words from a source document but put a passage from a source document into your own words and attribute the passage to the source document. Note that a reference within a reference list cannot exist without an associated in-text citation and vice versa.

• Provide the page or paragraph number.

• You may only use the course material to complete this project. If external source material is used, that material will not be included in the grading.

Step 7: Submit Project in the Assignment Folder

You will submit two documents in the Assignment Folder:

• Job Announcement labeled, Group #, – Job Announcement. This document contains:

• The job announcement
• The 2 - 3 page explanatory element of the project

• Leadership Competencies Table labeled, Group #, – Leadership Competencies Table

One student from each group will submit these two documents in the Assignment Folder on behalf of the group. All students are responsible for the final agreed-upon job announcement in the Assignment Folder. The student who submits a project differently from other classmates will receive the group grade unless it is deemed that no work or almost no work was performed as a team member. Successful group work requires every student to participate in the group fully and contribute to the group's effort in a complete and timely manner.