Homework: Project Plan
Guideline
Your plan should provide a brief, improved version of your Proposal information (what you want to do and why it's important), followed by an organized, week-by-week plan that communicates what you intend to do and accomplish each week. Five page limit suggested.
Restate your project title and purpose and goals. This should be brief and very clear. For consulting cases it should include a clear and compelling central question that will guide your research and analysis. Traditional leadership-in-action projects should include a clear goal statement that indicates how you and others will measure your results.
1) When you explain your plans, include ideas about specific leadership practices that may be necessary and that you wish to practice.
2) How will you communicate an inspiring message about your project goals, for example? To whom? Why?
3) How will you recruit followers? Guide? Motivate? Lead by example? Experiment and innovate? Direct and support? Reward? Celebrate achievements? Adapt your plan when necessary?Lead yourself and learn?
Your plan will evolve and change as new opportunities and new challenges occur. You will develop and revise your plan continuously and use it to direct your activities. However, this plan should provide a basic schedule and sequence of tasks that you understand now.
For each week you should make clear commitments to accomplish one or more major steps or objectives. Each major objective should include 2-3 specific actions that you believe will be necessary. These actions should build a clear path toward your Capstone Project goal.
A chart format for may be useful, in addition to text, such as the sample below. Yours will be more specific, of course. It does not contain homeworks that are not part of your individual project, such as Discussion Boards and essays.
A research plan is necessary for a consulting case, and often for Leadership In Action and Experiential Network projects as well.
1) What research will you do about the organization and the case and the decision-makers and stakeholders?
2) Where is this information available?
3) What leadership and management theory will you review, to learn how it applies to your case?
4) In addition to internet searches, what will you search for and study at Northeastern University's Library, with research specialists to assist you?
5) Do you need permission from an organizational leader to receive company information? How will you request this? What internal information is necessary?
6) Will you interview people? Who? Review interview plans with the professor first.
7) Will you conduct surveys? Who? Review survey plans with the professor first.
8) Will you conduct observations, or participate directly in any organization activities?
Your Project Plan should include your research plan.
Format your homework according to the following formatting requirements:
(1) The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
(2) 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.
(3) Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.