Homework
Length: 5 pages.
For this homework, imagine that the senior leadership has placed you in charge of leading a retreat in which your diverse team will make key decisions about your strategic plan. It is your task to lead the discussion, stimulate healthy debate from diverse points of view, and leave with a strategy that is right for your business. The strategic plan will not be performed yet; however, you will have chosen a strategy by the end of the retreat.
Keep in mind that in this course, you reflected on how to think strategically, and you analyzed your customers and competition based on solid data that you have gathered. You also performed key analyses using that data and you reflected on your company's mission, vision, and values and how this relates to the strategic plan. Now it is time to actually use that data and analyses to choose a strategy that best suits your company.
This homework has two parts. In the first part, you will summarize your approach to the workshop. In a 2 to 3 pages essay, be sure to address the following:
a) Setting expectations: What are your key expectations for this workshop?
b) Managing status: How will you minimize the status effect to ensure all can contribute?
c) Setting ground rules: What are the most important ground rules for how people should make comments and how decisions will be made?
d) Managing conflict: What will be your approach to conflict resolution?
e) Getting started: How will you begin the workshop?
In the second part of this homework, choose the three most critical criteria Tracy discusses, of Business Strategy, and then discuss what you predict the results of the analysis will be once the meeting has been conducted. Feel free to exercise creativity here because the goal is to consider different ideas for choosing a strategy for your plan. You will need to place yourself in the role of other various participants in your retreat, in order to consider diverse points of view.
Format your homework according to the following formatting requirements:
i) The answer should be typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, with one-inch margins on all sides.
ii) The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the homework, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
iii) Also include a reference page. The Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.