1. Provide at least 5best practices for managing groups and leading teams to influence team effectiveness including establishing a shared vision.Provide an explanation for each and scholarly references. Consider the following items:

• Focus on evidence-based approaches for leadership behaviors and effective communication.
• Examine behaviors amongst team members and team leaders that reflect professionalism and employs organizational integrity for an inspired goal.
• Include some of the following concepts: conflict negotiation and resolution, coaching and motivating others, facilitating discussion, cooperation, consensus-building, building team spirit and delegation. Communication skills should be included such as demonstrating the ability to interpret the unspoken or partly expressed thoughts, feelings, and concerns of others, especially those who may represent diverse backgrounds and very different worldviews.
• Apply management theories, approaches, and core functions to routine operations and to current and emerging issues in the health care environment.
• Make complex ideas or situations clearer, simpler, and/or more understandable (e.g., re-framing the problem, use of analogy); assemble ideas, issues, and observations into a clear and useful explanation; restate existing observations or knowledge in a simpler fashion; translate intricate technical information into terms everyone can understand; "boil down" information.
• Demonstrate formal and informal communication using traditional and contemporary modalities to convey messages that are clear and cogent for the target audience, which includes all forms of expression and technology that may be employed to reach the audience.

1. What is the importance of Personal Empowerment Assessment. Complete the assessment and provide an explanation.
2. Address a work project, as a manager, by using tools in Competency 3 (Planning and Coordinating Projects), Competency 4 (Measuring and Monitoring Performance and Quality) and Competency 5 (Encouraging and Enabling Compliance. Choose at least one tool to organize the work for the tasks to be accomplished. Demonstrate planning through narratives and charts, diagrams, and figures, etc. Describe a work project or a simulated one and how it gets accomplished using best practices. Provide explanations, examples and scholarly references.
   1. Discuss cross functional membership and why members were chosen based on literature.
   2. Incorporate one tool --- Planning and Coordinating Projects (Module 2, Competency 3).
   3. Consider which people should be assigned, and their professional goals, which you have considered in making the assignments. Also, what problems may be associated with team members.
3. Compare the following three oratories based on characteristics mentioned.After watching and listening from below three videos, compare for style, message delivery, audience appeal and impact.

• Martin Luther King: I Have a Dream

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o3a2HIKkuE

• John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEC1C4p0k3E

• A-Time-for-Choosing -by Ronald-Reagan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXBswFfh6AY

5. What a healthcare manager is passionate about? In Quadrant four, several approaches are presented to sell ideas and how these ideas can be presented for audience understanding and appeal, such as describing a case presentation, discussing the arguments for a new initiative and invoking emotion for audience attention. Choose a topic of compelling interest for its political, workforce, regulatory or legal appeal to systems or people and create a presentation using the SSSAP approach described in the text. Based on the idea, problem or initiative, choose your platform to convince the audience of your proposal or the need for action. Include why you chose to present this topic by a specific approach to reach your audience based on the lessons from the text as a guide. Include the time scale of focus of the initiativewhat are the short term vs. the long term actions. In a persuasive, meaningful way describe what the key leadership competencies are to solve the problem and to gain substantial insight. Use SSSAP as a springboard to incorporate the material in Module 4, Competency 2 (Championing and selling New Ideas). Include why you chose to present your topic in a certain way based on the lessons from the text as a guide: Determine and then present your stance by using one of the approaches in the text, such as issues/solutions, case study, argument fallacies, etc Announce who your audience is, the BoD, community, staff, etc. Provide scholarly references.

6. Discuss a leadership story by using Managing Execution and Driving for Results. Address someone's major life experiences, or career milestones or awakenings from the early years to develop the legacy you would like to impart. Also, highlight why you chose this path as well as professional behaviors of self-awareness, accountability, continuous learning, and responsibility for the greater good. Provide Scholarly references.