Develop a Leadership Intervention Strategy (LIS) for a make-believe prison that has asked for your help.
What is a leadership intervention?
The term “intervention” refers to a set of sequenced, planned actions or events intended to help an organization increase its effectiveness. Interventions are often facilitated by outside organizational development consultants or employees within the organization who have the competencies associated with a trusted change agent. In this case, you are going to take the role of an outside consultant.
Interventions can be done at the individual level, team level, and organizational level. What is important to keep in mind is the objective of all interventions is to help improve the effectiveness of individuals, groups, teams, and organizations.
An intervention strategy can be relatively simple in terms of one initiative to address a problem. For example, a company develops a safety committee after this was identified as an operating deficiency. However, most intervention strategies are more complex and have more than one initiative or sub-strategies which make up one large strategy. The complex approach is what you will do for your Prison X – Leadership Intervention Strategy for this course.
Summarize the Prison X scenario including a statement of purpose for the intervention and its expected outcome.
Evaluate the specific critical issues, needs, and challenges that may be affecting this organization and its culture.
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LIS – Intervention Development
Analyze the warden’s leadership repertoire and its impact on the organization, its culture, and how the mood of the organization may affect the various operational components.
Assess the five critical need areas requiring immediate intervention.
Develop a minimum of three intervention strategies for each of the five critical need areas identified above that seek to minimize dissonant styles and create resonant leadership.
Create a detailed plan for conducting the interventions.
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LIS – Implementation and Evaluation
Analyze the warden’s effectiveness as a leader, where gaps may exist, and what leadership skills may need to improve.
Justify at least five key learning and professional development objectives that will enhance the warden’s effectiveness and a six-month learning plan to develop his emotional intelligence and associated competencies as well as strategies to overcome his resistance to change.
Evaluate how your six-month LIS will be implemented and measured including at least three metrics you will employ to measure and track results as well as how you will measure its ROI.
Assess how the application of emotional intelligence and leadership theory will minimize change resistance and foster appreciation and organizational support of your plan.