GB580 All Assignments latest 2018 august (No Unit 6 Assignment 2)

GB580 Strategic Management

Unit 2 Assignment

Craft your life vision statement. Assure it is succinct, and no longer than 30 words.

Then, after participating in FLIGBY scenes 1-8, and reading the section in Chapter 2 of Blue Ocean Strategy regarding the Eliminate, Reduce, Raise, Create (ERRC) tool, craft an ERRC grid for yourself. Take into consideration your personal and professional life. Have at least two goals in each of the four quadrants.

Focus on the most important two (out of 8) goals that you inserted into the grid.

Are your goals in alignment with your vision? If not, determine what is out of alignment and adjust accordingly.

Elaborate on why each of these two goals fits into your life vision statement.

Here is the grading rubric. Your Assignment must be in a Microsoft Word document, double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman or Arial font, one-inch margins, and include a cover page and an APA reference page. Your Assignment should adhere to APA guidelines.

Directions for Submitting your Assignment

Compose your Assignment in a Word document and save it as Username GB580 Unit 2 Assignment (Example: JSmith GB580 Unit 2 Assignment.doc). Submit your file by selecting the Unit 2: Assignment Dropbox.

GB580 Strategic Management

Unit 3 Assignment

You will need to complete scenes 1-10 in FLIGBY, if you have not already done so, craft an ERRC grid for yourself based on your reading in Blue Ocean Strategy, Chapter 2. Take into consideration your personal and professional life. Have at least two goals in each of the four quadrants. Focus on the most important two (out of 8) goals that you inserted into the grid.

Using the Goal Setting Plan template, create between two and five objectives for each of the two most important goals. Once the objectives are determined, fill in the resource, measurement, and targets for each objective. Include that template to your paper, and also write about your findings and how you will accomplish them—with particular focus on the ones that present challenges.

Read the following articles found in the FLIGBY Library that will be used in Discussions and/or Assignments:

FLIGBY Library – How to Lead a Good Business

FLIGBY Library – How to Start Working Creatively

FLIGBY Library - Assessment and Performance

FLIGBY Library – Flow at Work 1

FLIGBY Library – Vision and Mission

Read the following articles found in the University Library that will be used in Discussions and/or Assignments:

Nickols, F., and Ledgerwood, R. (2006). The Goals Grid: A New Tool for Strategic Planning. Consulting to Management. 17(1), 36-38.

W. Chan, K. (2005) Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant. HBS.

Chapter 2 regarding the Eliminate, Reduce, Raise, and Creating (ERRC) tool

Here is the grading rubric.

Directions for Submitting your Assignment

Compose your Assignment in a Word document and save it as Username GB580 Unit 3 Assignment (Example: JSmith GB580 Unit 3 Assignment.doc). Submit your file by selecting the Unit 3: Assignment Dropbox.

GB580 Strategic Management

Unit 4 Assignment

After completing FLIGBY, scenes 1-19, and the assigned readings, you will focus on ways to manage conflict in the workplace and to empower employees. Part of your challenge will be to recognize common difficulties you and other managers might have in delegating. What are the inner motivations that keep you and others from delegating work? What are the outcomes and challenges from under-delegating? How do these problems affect conflict resolution?

This Assignment requires that you identify at least three employee conflict situations that you have observed in FLIGBY. Identify the players, and then speculate about each employees’ motivation(s) behind their position in the conflict. You will pick one of these conflicts, and outline a plan for negotiating through it to reach a resolution. Then, you will assign tasks/responsibilities to each party that reflect the outcome(s) of the negotiation. Explain how you believe this delegation will help solve the conflict. What challenges will your approach likely bring? How will you overcome those challenges?

Here is the grading rubric.

Directions for Submitting your Assignment

Compose your Assignment in a Word document and save it as Username GB580 Unit 2 Assignment (Example: JSmith GB580 Unit 4 Assignment.doc). Submit your file by selecting the Unit 4: Assignment Dropbox.

GB580 Strategic Management

Unit 6 Assignment 1

After completing FLIGBY, scenes 1-23, and the assigned readings, access your FLIGBY Metrix Individual Report. Note the 29 skills that were assessed, and answer the following questions:

What have you learned about your strengths and how they relate to finding flow in yourself and promoting flow in others?

What have you learned about your weaknesses? Cover at least three, and include scholarly sources related to each one identified. When you include these, discuss the skill you need to improve as well as proven strategies for improvement.

Assure your paper is in APA format, and use at least three academic resources that help you better understand the highest and lowest rated skills based on your individual assessment. For example, if motivation is a problem identified in your assessment, research scholarly articles on motivation, and develop your paper based on what you learned through your research.

Here is the grading rubric.

Directions for Submitting your Assignment

Compose your Assignment in a Word document and save it as Username GB580 Unit 6 Assignment (Example: JSmith GB580 Unit 6 Assignment.doc). Submit your file by selecting the Unit 6: Assignment 1 Dropbox.

GB580 Strategic Management

Unit 6 Assignment 2

The FLIGBY simulation required you to act as the manager/leader of a fictitious winery in California. The simulation used virtual reality to take you through 21 scenes that involved managing the team of executive employees while they wrestled to balance the vision of the company, profits, reputation, and employee engagement. As you progressed through each scene, you were asked to make decisions. Each decision affected additional scenes, and during the entire process, a profit and flow meter gauged the quality of your decisions.

Behind your experience in the simulation, an algorithm was functioning that measured you on 29 leadership qualities. These 29 qualities are sorted into four major areas: corporate atmosphere, profit, sum flow, and trophies. The grading rubric shows how these four areas will translate to your overall score in the game—reflected in the Unit 6, Assignment 2.

Unit 6, Assignment 2 also assesses your performance in the teamwork professional competency. Of the 29 leadership qualities, FLIGBY research has shown that seven directly reflect your skills in teamwork.

These seven are:

Emotional Intelligence (70) - The capacity and readiness to understand, express and regulate emotions in oneself and in others

Feedback (67) - Feedback to employees is information regarding their performance that they can also act on. Feedback must be shared in a manner that is understandable and perceived by them as being provided in a highly respectful manner. As an organization seeks to improve its performance, feedback helps it to make the required adjustments. Feedback is immediate. It is difficult for people to stay absorbed in any activity unless they get timely, "online" information about how well they are doing. The sense of total involvement of the flow experience derives in large part from knowing that what one does matters and has consequences. Feedback may come from colleagues or supervisors who comment on performance, but preferably it is the activity itself that will provide this information.

Motivation (65) - Motivational skills are those that enable a person to become motivated and work toward achieving goals. This is the readiness to understand what causes a person to become motivated and stay that way. It helps with making sure people are the most productive that they can be.

Personal Strengths (66) - Recognizing and applying personal strengths is the readiness to discover and to put to good use those personal strengths of others’ that are not immediately obvious. It is the realization that those strengths can potentially induce flow states in that other person and thus benefit the organization.

Balancing Skill (60) - Balancing skill is the readiness to maintain the same importance between things, considering them in the same way. Effective leadership is about balance. A balance between challenges and skills is necessary for Flow. It is easier to become completely involved in a task if we believe it is doable. If it appears to be beyond our capacity, we tend to respond to it by feeling anxious; if the task is too easy we get bored. In either case attention shifts from what needs to be accomplished—the anxious person is distracted by worries about the outcome, while the bored one starts searching for other things to do. The ideal condition can be expressed by the simple formula: Flow occurs when both challenges and skills are high and equal to each other.

Teamwork (61) - Teamwork management is the readiness to form, facilitate and monitor teamwork and teams.

Active Listening (63) - Active listening is a way of responding to another person that improves mutual understanding. This is a method of listening that involves understanding the content of a message as well as the intent of the sender and the circumstances under which the message is given. Active listening is a structured form of listening and responding that focuses the attention on the speaker. The listener does not have to agree with the speaker – he or she must simply state what he or she thinks the speaker said.

Each of the seven areas is rated separately from 1-100, 100 being the best. Benchmark values are established for each, and that number represents the average score in that area (the average of 12,000 people having played the game). After each of the seven qualities listed above, the benchmark value is noted in parentheses. Your teamwork score assesses how you compare to your peers in each of the areas. This is a calculation that averages the seven scores (as noted above), and applies the average using this rubric: