Shared Vision and Team Learning
For this assignment, you will write a paper (minimum of 300 words) in which you describe shared vision and team learning for a chosen audience (individual or group) and explain how each concept points to an area for improvement in an example organization. At the end of the paper you will provide several questions for your audience to think about to promote greater understanding of how each of these concepts might be applied to their organization.
Preparation
Refer to the following reading:
Week 8: Reflection in Practice: Shared Vision and Team Learning Links to an external site..
Identify a particular individual or group within your site who will serve as your audience.
Consider who at your site would find especially relevant a discussion of the organization’s shared vision and team learning.
Consider any particular organizational challenges that person or group faces in developing, or sustaining, the organization’s vision.
Your audience could include any member of your professional learning community, your institution’s board, a department group, or other.
Instructions
Write a 300-word (minimum) paper addressed to a particular person/group in which you:
Identify and briefly describe your target audience (individual or group).
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
In your writing, try to make specific connections between the concepts 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.
Additional Requirements
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 New Roman, 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.
Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and grading criteria:
Competency 1: Apply systems thinking principles and tools to problems and organizations.
Analyze how shared vision and team learning interact with one another and support systems thinking.
Competency 2: Use disciplines of learning organizations to analyze problems of practice.
Describe the concepts of shared vision and team learning.
Apply the concept of shared vision to address issues and opportunities for improvement in an organization.
Apply the concept of team learning to address issues and opportunities for improvement in an organization.
Competency 3: Apply critical thinking to evaluate ideas and in interactions with others.
Create a set of questions that will foster inquiry by a target audience on organizational change.
Competency 5: Communicate clearly, supporting a central idea in appropriate format with correct grammar, usage, and mechanics.
Adhere to the rules of grammar, usage, and mechanics.
Develop flow with organizational tactics that recognize the relationship between the main topic and subtopics.
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