Paper-Strategic Leadership Change Initiative

For your final project paper, you will construct a plan for a “change” within your Organization (or Organization of your choice that you research). As leaders we are constantly solving problems.

This Paper will include the following:

  • Describe the need for change
  • Provide background/historical information as needed
  • Discuss barriers or resistance to the change
  • Discuss benefits of the change
  • Provide recommendations, and discuss the process/strategy you will follow to implement the changes.

Attached is handout to use that provides guidelines to help assist you with developing your paper.

Make sure to follow APA requirements. Your final project (Strategic Leadership Change Initiative) will be 6-8 pages in length (this does not include the cover, reference pages and/or any appendices). Please make sure to include headings for each section as follows: Introduction, Problem Statement, Analysis, Summary, Conclusions, Recommendations. Please make sure to cite all sources. Sources not properly cited or not cited at all are considered plagiarism and earns a zero grade. Use scholarly journals, articles to support your research (powerpoint, youtube video, websites, wikipedia are not considered scholarly sources. If using a website-keep to a minimum-1 or 2 only.)

You can take your name off your paper, and keep the identity of your Organization confidential by referring to your company as “ABC” or “XYZ” Company, prior to submitting your paper. Make sure to follow APA guidelines, especially in regards to citing sources, originality of work, and plagiarism. (Safe Assign tutorials and guides are located under the Start Here menu tab.)