capella MBA6026 unit 1 dq 1 & dq 2 latest 2016 may
dq 1
Read the Discussion Participation Scoring Guide to learn how the instructor will evaluate your discussion participation throughout this course.
Activity Context
This discussion helps you develop the skills to master the following course competency:
- Analyze relevant global leadership concerns for the future.
Activity Instructions
In this discussion, you will gain experience in analyzing the shaping and driving forces that impact the development of new leadership agendas.
In The New Competition for Global Resources, a special report from Boston Consulting Group and Knowledge@Wharton, the threat driving new understandings about the global future, leadership, and competition was defined as “the need to compete with everyone, from everywhere, for everything” (2008, p.18). Using the case study PepsiCo India: On Road to Sustainable Development?, define how the shaping and driving forces that PepsiCo experienced in India impacted its leadership agenda. In particular, address whether the impact of the forces merely created leadership recognition that situations needed to be fixed or contained in order for the firm to penetrate further into the Indian consumer market, or whether the impact of the forces created a reorientation of the leadership agenda as the PepsiCo mindset changed because of learning about and exploring a complex set of concerns for the future.
Response Guidelines
Respond to two of your peers. In replies to your colleagues, analyze the risks PepsiCo leadership assumed for whichever path your colleagues suggested it could take, given the impact of shaping and driving forces. What factors do you see in your colleagues’ posts that define specifically the risks that could impact the sustainability of the firm? Given those risks to sustainability, do you agree or disagree with your colleagues?
Reference
Boston Consulting Group, & Knowlege@Wharton. (2008). The new competition for global resources. Retrieved from http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/papers/download/BCGReport_Competition_for_Global_Resources.pdf
dq 2
Activity Context
This discussion helps you develop the skills to master the following course competency:
- Analyze relevant global leadership concerns for the future.
Activity Instructions
In this discussion, you will gain experience in evaluating Gardner’s “five minds”as guides to addressing future agendas held by today’s global leaders.
In the world of global talent and leadership, define which one or two minds are crucial to the solution of PepsiCo’s dilemma in India. Defend your choice with information in the case study, in Gardner’s article, or in more current articles you are able to find about PepsiCo’s presence in Asia.
Response Guidelines
Respond to two of your peers. In your responses to others, dig deeper into the evidence to see whether other choices from the five minds (disciplined, synthesizing, creating, respectful, or ethical) are more appropriate than yours.
capella MBA6026 unit 2 dq 1 latest 2016 may
Activity Context
This discussion helps you develop the skills to master the following course competency:
- Analyze emerging leadership theories that are appropriate for a global agenda.
Activity Instructions
In this discussion, you will gain experience in articulating a particular leadership theory and evaluating a rationale for using it as a guide to enact a leadership agenda.
Using either Scharmer’s or Pless and Maak’s article as a guide, analyze the ability of the top leadership team at PepsiCo to recognize and change the way they had responded in the past to the pesticide and water contamination issues. Take a stance on whether Nooyi and the top leadership team at PepsiCo exhibited the capacity to align Gardner’s five minds toward finding new solutions to these issues.
Response Guidelines
Respond to two of your peers. In your responses, extend the discussion by suggesting at least one more emerging leadership theory that might better guide an analysis of Nooyi and the top leadership team’s approach to resolving the scandals and ill will in India. Make sure to provide a rationale for the theory as a guide to enacting Nooyi’s leadership agenda.
capella MBA6026 unit 3 dq 1 latest 2016 may
Activity Context
This discussion helps you develop the skills to master the following course competency:
- Evaluate the leader’s responsibility to prepare the self for work in a competitive, complex, and diverse workplace.
Activity Instructions
In order to prepare one’s self to be a true leader in the global arena, individuals must know how they measure up with respect to the level of their leadership competencies. The intent of this discussion is to allow you as an individual to identify how you “measure up” to Gardner’s five minds.
In an open and honest discussion, create a list of your level of competency (strengths and areas to improve on) with respect to each of the five minds listed below. Provide your thoughts on ways to further develop and improve your five minds. Also, remember to provide examples and linkage to the course concepts in your discussion. Address your competency regarding the following:
- The disciplined mind: The ability to delve deep that is associated with expertise in a certain field of scholarship or the professions.
- The synthesizing mind: The ability to pick and choose among an array of information from several disciplines so that the resulting explanation makes sense.
- The creating mind: The ability to go beyond existing knowledge to forge new ground, “pose new questions, offer new solutions” (Gardner, 2006, p. 156).
- The respectful mind: The ability to appreciate and welcome all forms of diversity.
- The ethical mind: The ability to seek both good work and good citizenship.
Note: This discussion activity will also help you to develop your final course project.
Response Guidelines
Respond to two of your peers. In responses to your colleagues, find and analyze the similarities and differences between your findings and theirs.
Reference
Gardner, H. (2006). Five minds for the future. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press. ISBN: 9781591399124.
capella MBA6026 unit 4 dq 1 latest 2016 may
Activity Context
This discussion helps you develop the skills to master the following course competency:
- Evaluate the leader’s responsibility to prepare the self for work in a competitive, complex, and diverse workplace.
Activity Instructions
This discussion will help you build skill in evaluating the interdependent variables that impact the value and trajectory of global leadership development programs in terms of their effectiveness in fostering deep self-awareness and growth as well as cultural intelligence and nonlinear systems thinking. Part of the evaluation will involve the sets of interdependent variables that are built into the paths that enhance skills for global leaders.
Revisit PepsiCo’s leadership development program, and evaluate its capacity to foster the “leading from behind” skills (“Where Will We Find Tomorrow’s Leaders?,” 2008, p. 126). Look specifically at variables such as cultural intelligence, nonlinear systems thinking, self-awareness, and growth. Include answers to the following questions in your post:
- Does the PepsiCo program challenge existing assumptions about what leaders should be in such a way as to empower a more self-directed and self-selected leadership development trajectory or process?
- Does the program support an outside-in or an inside-out focus (imposed or self-generated)?
- Does the PepsiCo program foster the capacity to support the personal growth of self and others in a nonlinear, multi-minded system?
- Does the program develop cultural intelligence?
Response Guidelines
Respond to two of your peers. In your responses to your colleagues, analyze the implications of the PepsiCo program in regard to whether the assessment of the variables presented by colleagues actually develops the self as you would wish the self to evolve as a global leader.
Reference
Where will we find tomorrow’s leaders? (2008). Harvard Business Review, 86(1), 123–129.
capella MBA6026 unit 5 dq 1 latest 2016 may
Activity Context
This discussion helps you develop the skills to master the following course competency:
- Analyze relevant global leadership concerns for the future.
Activity Instructions
As you examine PepsiCo leadership at the end of the case study, analyze the prototyping, if any, the leadership is undertaking as a way to experiment with the future. Consider whether PepsiCo leadership is following Scharmer’s advice: “This means to prototype the new in order to explore the future by doing, to create a little landing strip of the future that allows for hands-on testing and experimentation” (2008, p. 56).
Response Guidelines
Respond to two of your peers. In replies to your colleagues, extend the discussion by exploring how PepsiCo’s prototyping, or lack thereof, will impact the company’s capacity to change itself and support the next generation of global leaders in their ongoing changes. Refer to any recent news articles pertaining to PepsiCo and this topic.
Reference
Scharmer, C. O. (2008). Uncovering the blind spot of leadership. Leader to Leader, 2008(47), 52–59.
capella MBA6026 unit 6 dq 1 & dq 2 latest 2016 may
dq 1
Activity Instructions
Post your Leadership Development Plan from Unit 5 to the discussion area.
Response Guidelines
After reading colleagues’ development plans, reply to at least two, using the following approach adapted from Scharmer (2008, p. 54). Complete and include each of the following statements regarding the different insights you experienced, based on your various levels of listening. You can certainly add some narrative to these replies. As a listener, you will evolve, and the feedback will help the presenter evolve.
- Downloading – I downloaded the following information that reconfirmed what I already know: ___________.
- Factual listening – I noticed something new I had not considered before: ___________.
- Empathetic listening – I saw the following through my colleague’s eyes: ___________.
- Generative listening – I really caught a glimpse of my best future self when: ___________.
Reference
Scharmer, C. O. (2008). Uncovering the blind spot of leadership. Leader to Leader, 2008(47), 52–59.
dq 2
Activity Instructions
Throughout the course, you have been building toward the achievement of the following competencies:
- Analyze relevant global leadership concerns for the future.
- Analyze emerging leadership theories that are appropriate for a global agenda.
- Evaluate the leader’s responsibility to prepare the self for work in a competitive, complex, and diverse workplace.
- Define a personal plan for evolving the present, reflective self.
- Communicate in a manner that is professional and consistent with expectations for members of the business professions.
For this discussion, reflect on the knowledge and skills you developed over the past six weeks. Address the following questions in your post:
- For each competency, how has your ability to perform these skills and apply this knowledge evolved?
- What concepts, skills, or insights were most relevant to you?
- How have you grown in your academic and professional goals? Have you made progress on any items in the action plan you developed during first course?
Response Guidelines
Respond to two of your peers. When responding to others, provide encouraging feedback about how your fellow learners have grown over the past six weeks. If applicable, provide recommendations for how they may continue to develop these skills and knowledge, or suggest additional strategies for leveraging the knowledge gained in the course.
capella MBA6026 unit 2 assignment 1 latest 2016 may
Activity Context
This assessment enables you to demonstrate your mastery of the following course competencies:
- Analyze relevant global leadership concerns for the future.
- Analyze emerging leadership theories that are appropriate for a global agenda.
- Communicate in a manner that is professional and consistent with expectations for members of the business professions.
Overview
This assignment provides an opportunity for you to analyze relevant leadership concerns for an increasingly global future and commit to an emerging leadership theory that is appropriate to guide enactment of your leadership agenda. Be aware that Gardner’s five minds is not a theory but a model. Emerging theories include relational leadership, Theory U, contingency theory, and path-goal theory.
What you create in this assignment is the starting point for the Leadership Development Plan, which is due in Unit 5. Remember that the plan is about you, your career, your organization, and your industry. If your company or industry is local or national only, think of how it might impact or be impacted by the global environment. The work you completed in the discussions in Units 1 and 2 should have prepared you to write this assignment.
Activity Instructions
In this paper, complete the following:
- Provide context by defining the shaping and driving forces that impact the development of your new leadership agenda. This should include your awareness of the global impact of your company or your chosen field and its welcoming of a global diversity of ideas and leadership. It should also include what “minds” you most need to develop.
- Think about how your agenda compares to the predominant leadership model in your field. Examples of contemporary leadership agendas might include “might makes right,” “Americans know better,” and “partnering makes a better product.” Evaluate the strength of your own agenda in comparison to other possible agendas. Provide the rationale for one of the emerging leadership theories as a guide for your leadership agenda.
The completed paper should be 4–5 pages (excluding cover and reference pages). You also need to utilize citations and reference from a minimum of four credible sources.
Refer to the scoring guide prior to submission to ensure you meet all evaluation criteria.
Assignment Requirements
- Written communication: Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.
- APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to APA (6th edition) style and formatting.
- Number of resources: Minimum of four resources.
- Length: 4–5 typed, double-spaced pages.
- Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12-point.
Note: Your instructor may also use the Writing Feedback Tool to provide feedback on your writing. In the tool, click the linked resources for helpful writing information.
capella MBA6026 unit 4 assignment 1 latest 2016 may
Activity Context
This assessment enables you to demonstrate your mastery of the following course competencies:
- Evaluate the leader’s responsibility to prepare the self for work in a competitive, complex, and diverse workplace.
- Define a personal plan for evolving the present, reflective self.
- Communicate in a manner that is professional and consistent with expectations for members of the business professions.
Activity Instructions
Create a 4–5-page paper (excluding cover and reference pages) in which you complete the following:
- Explain your rationale for the necessity to accept responsibility to prepare the self, using the insights from the existing developmental pathways available to you for enhancing your global leadership skills.
- Evaluate a current development program you might create or in which you participate, relative to its ability to build deep self-awareness and growth, cultural intelligence, and Gardner’s five minds in prospective leaders.
Refer to the scoring guide prior to submission to ensure you meet all evaluation criteria.
Assignment Requirements
- Written communication: Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.
- APA formatting:Resources and citations are formatted according to APA (6th edition) style and formatting.
- Number of resources: Minimum of four resources.
- Length: 3–5 typed, double-spaced pages.
- Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12-point.
Note: Your instructor may also use the Writing Feedback Tool to provide feedback on your writing. In the tool, click on the linked resources for helpful writing information.
capella MBA6026 unit 5 assignment 1 latest 2016 may
Activity Context
This assessment enables you to demonstrate your mastery of the following course competencies:
- Analyze relevant global leadership concerns for the future.
- Analyze emerging leadership theories that are appropriate for a global agenda.
- Evaluate the leader’s responsibility to prepare the self for work in a competitive, complex, and diverse workplace.
- Define a personal plan for evolving the present, reflective self.
- Communicate in a manner that is professional and consistent with expectations for members of the business professions.
Overview
Throughout this course, you have been defining your strengths and areas to improve on with respect to your global leadership competencies. You started with a level of leadership skills and, hopefully, have identified more growth opportunities. The key to this project is to identify what would make you the global leader of choice.
The Leadership Development Plan is about you and your ability to define yourself as a 21st century global leader. You are to utilize the learnings from this class (assignments, readings, discussions, assessments, et cetera) to prepare a plan that will help you develop as a global leader for the future.
The development of this plan as it pertains to you will allow you to take the concepts and learnings out of the classroom and apply them into your personal development as a leader, as well as to assist you in your present and future employment opportunities.
Activity Instructions
Review your learnings from the discussions and assignments in Units 2, 3, and 4. Then prepare a 12–15 page paper (excluding the cover page, references page, and appendices).
The following is an outline for your paper:
- Title page.
- Introduction (approximately two pages).
- Global leadership concerns for the future (approximately two pages):
- Identify the current global trends that you see driving a global leadership agenda.
- Clearly link your leadership development needs to the applicable global trends.
- Review Units 1 and 2, and provide links via citations and references.
- Emerging leadership theory to guide your leadership development (approximately three pages):
- Analyze the emerging leadership theories that are appropriate for a global agenda. These topics were developed in the written assignment for Unit 2.
- Select a theory that is appropriate for professional growth and for guiding an individual global agenda.
- Provide your rationale for choosing this theory to frame your leadership agenda.
- Review Unit 4, and provide links via citations and references.
- Personal plan to develop your global leadership competencies (minimum eight pages):
- Define your responsibility and need to continue to adapt and grow as a global leader.
- Review the Unit 3 discussions on your Gardner’s five minds level of competency and Unit 3’s Global Leadership Inventory with respect to your findings on strengths and areas for improvement.
- Prepare a plan that supports your personal growth as a global leader. The plan should clearly focus on the areas for improvement.
- Describe how you will evaluate your progress.
- Develop a one-page table-format calendar for the action steps of the plan.
- Conclusion (approximately 1–2 pages).
- References (minimum of 15 sources ).
- Appendices (including the graph results from the Global Leadership Inventory and any other materials you feel are pertinent).
Refer to the scoring guide prior to submission to ensure you meet all evaluation criteria.
Assignment Requirements
- Written communication: Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.
- APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to APA (6th edition) style and formatting.
- Number of resources: Minimum of 15 resources.
- Length of paper: 12–15 typed, double-spaced pages.
- Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12-point.
Note: Your instructor may also use the Writing Feedback Tool to provide feedback on your writing. In the tool, click on the linked resources for helpful writing information.
capella MBA6026 unit 6 assignment 1 latest 2016 may
Activity Context
This assessment enables you to demonstrate your mastery of the following course competencies:
- Analyze relevant global leadership concerns for the future.
- Analyze emerging leadership theories that are appropriate for a global agenda.
- Evaluate the leader’s responsibility to prepare the self for work in a competitive, complex, and diverse workplace.
- Define a personal plan for evolving the present, reflective self.
- Communicate in a manner that is professional and consistent with expectations for members of the business professions.
Activity Instructions
Draw upon your Leadership Development Plan from Unit 5 to prepare a PowerPoint presentation in which you present your global leadership credentials to a corporate leadership team.
Imagine that you are interviewing for a dream leadership position in a global firm. (It may help you to identify a specific organization, industry, and leadership position. It can be fictitious, if you would prefer, but will have more meaning if it is something you actually hope for in your future.) Before flying to corporate headquarters, you receive a request from the top leadership team. The team members ask to see a 10-minute presentation in which you give your:
- Global leadership strengths and fit with the leadership position.
- Evolving global leadership development plan.
- Analysis of global leadership concerns for the future in the context of the organization.
- Evaluation of an emerging leadership theory and its appropriateness for the organization.
Remember that you will want to tailor your presentation to reflect the particular firm, industry, and leadership position for which you are being considered. This is where you are “boasting” your strengths to be the global leader of choice.
Your presentation must include speaker notes at the bottom of the slides. To learn how to use speaker notes in PowerPoint, visit the help area in PowerPoint and search for “speaker note function.”
Also, note that your first slide must be a title page and the last slide must have your references.
Refer to the scoring guide prior to submission to ensure you meet all evaluation criteria.
Assignment Requirements
- Written communication: Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.
- APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to APA (6th edition) style and formatting.
- Length: No more than 15 slides with speaker notes.
- Font and font size: Fonts and sizes appropriate for good visibility in a slide presentation.
Post the presentation (no more than 15 slides) with speaker notes (not bullet points but complete sentences and paragraphs) to the assignment grading area.
