ABA2 TASK 2
INTRODUCTION
In this task, you will select and explain in (DETAIL) your chosen communication strategies and leadership styles, evaluate how effective these strategies are in promoting and encouraging innovative thinking solutions, build team commitment and buy-in, and demonstrate your self-awareness as a leader within the organization.
As a leader, you need to align yourself with the mission of the organization you work for while also helping to define the organization’s philosophy. You must be aware of both your own leadership style and how it integrates with the social dynamics of your team. You and your team are responsible for developing common goals, ownership of your work, a collaborative approach to producing results, clean communication, healthy conflict resolution approaches, and strong trust within the team.
SCENARIO
You have been hired as the new CIO at a local IT company. As CIO, you are expected to build a team of IT leaders who are empowered to inspire their teams and deliver results through an organizational culture of trust and respect.
Part of the onboarding for this role is articulating your leadership approach and demonstrating self-awareness in identifying how purposeful interactions and decision making will set up your teams for success.
REQUIREMENTS FOR PARTS (A to F)
Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of a submission can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. Use the report provided when submitting your task as a guide.
You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course.
A. Identify strategies you use as a new CIO for promoting and encouraging innovative thinking and solutions for team members.
B. Explain how you, as a new CIO, will encourage and build commitment and buy-in for team success.
C. Explain strategies that you, as a new CIO, will integrate for overcoming obstacles with competing sources of power and influence.
D. Explain how you, as a new CIO, will encourage team members to identify and implement effective strategies for handling conflict to maximize team results.
E. Explain strategies or approaches you will use as a new CIO for overcoming communication barriers within the team.
F. Acknowledge sources, using APA-formatted in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.
RUBRIC
A: INNOVATIVE THINKING
NOT EVIDENT
The submission does not identify strategies that would be leveraged for promoting and encouraging innovative thinking and solutions.
APPROACHING COMPETENCE
The submission identifies strategies, but the strategies would not promote and encourage innovative thinking and solutions for team members or does not include examples of when the strategies or approaches will be applied in the scenario. Or the strategies would not be leveraged by a new CIO.
COMPETENT
The submission identifies strategies that
would be leveraged by a new CIO to promote
and encourage innovative thinking and solutions
for team members and includes examples of
when the strategies or approaches will be
applied in the scenario.
B: BUILDING COMMITMENT
NOT EVIDENT
The submission does not explain how to encourage and build commitment and buy-in amongst team members to build success.
APPROACHING COMPETENCE
The submission explains how a new CIO will encourage and build commitment and buy-in amongst team members to build success but does not include examples of how the approach taken by the CIO is proven to build team success.
COMPETENT
The submission explains how a new CIO will encourage
and build commitment and buy-in amongst team members
to build success and includes examples of how the
approach taken by the CIO is proven to build team success.
C: OVERCOMING OBSTACLES
NOT EVIDENT
The submission does not provide strategies that will be integrated to overcome obstacles associated with competing sources of power and influence.
APPROACHING COMPETENCE
The submission provides strategies a new CIO will integrate to overcome obstacles associated with competing sources of power and influence but does not include examples when the strategies will be applied in the scenario.
COMPETENT
The submission provides strategies a new CIO will
integrate to overcome obstacles associated with
competing sources of power and influence and includes
examples when the strategies will be applied in the
scenario.
D: HANDLING CONFLICT
NOT EVIDENT
The submission does not explain how team members would be encouraged to identify and implement strategies for handling conflict and maximizing team results.
APPROACHING COMPETENCE
The submission explains how a new CIO will encourage team members to identify and implement strategies for handling conflict to maximize results but does not identify when the strategies will be applied in the scenario and does not include examples of how the approach taken by the CIO is proven to maximize team results.
COMPETENT
The submission explains how a new CIO will encourage
Team members to identify and implement strategies for
handling conflict to maximize results and when the
strategies will be applied in the scenario and includes
examples of how the approach taken by the CIO is proven
to maximize team results.
E: COMMUNICATION BARRIERS
NOT EVIDENT
The submission does not provide strategies or approaches for overcoming communication barriers within the team.
APPROACHING COMPETENCE
The submission explains how a new CIO will use strategies or approaches for overcoming communication barriers within the team but does not include examples when the strategies or approaches will be applied in the scenario.
COMPETENT
The submission explains how a new CIO will use
strategies or approaches for overcoming communication
barriers within the team and includes examples when
strategies or approaches will be applied in the scenario.
F: SOURCES
NOT EVIDENT
The submission does not include both in-text citations and a reference list for sources that are quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.
APPROACHING COMPETENCE
The submission includes in-text citations for sources that are quoted, paraphrased, or summarized and a reference list; however, the citations or reference list is incomplete or inaccurate.
COMPETENT
The submission includes in-text citations for sources that
are properly quoted, paraphrased, or summarized and
a reference list that accurately identifies the author, date,
title, and source location as available. Or the candidate
does not use sources.
