Inspiring Leadership: Capstone Project & Action Plan for Change

This capstone project report focuses on inspiring leadership and outlines an action plan for leadership improvement through self-reflection and organizational development. The project details personal mastery goals, interpersonal mastery goals, and organizational development goals, with success measures defined for each. It emphasizes the importance of clarity, communication, and decision-making in effective leadership. The capstone project itself aims to enhance the acceptance of change through cooperative learning within the organization. The report includes tools and strategies for implementing change, such as SWOT analysis, the 3Ws framework, and mind mapping, to address challenges in professional conversations and promote teacher autonomy. The implementation plan is structured in three phases focusing on fostering relationships, encouraging professional development, and documenting teacher views to facilitate organizational change.

Running head: INSPIRING LEADERSHIP 1
Inspiring leadership
Student’s name
Professor’s name
Institutional Affiliation
Date

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Table of contents
Table of contents.........................................................................................................................................2
Inspiring Leadership Capstone Project Report............................................................................................3
My action plan for leadership improvement...........................................................................................3
My leadership reflection..........................................................................................................................3
What do I appreciate about myself?....................................................................................................3
What areas can I be a better version of myself?..................................................................................3
What does my team appreciate my leadership?.................................................................................3
What are my organisational practices that have been successful?.....................................................4
How am I able to improve the practices in my organisation?..............................................................5
What are my interpersonal mastery goals to develop my leadership?...............................................5
What are my organisational development goals?...............................................................................6
Success measures....................................................................................................................................6
My capstone project................................................................................................................................7
Tool 1.......................................................................................................................................................8
Tool 2.......................................................................................................................................................8
Tool 3.......................................................................................................................................................9
Phase 1..................................................................................................................................................10
Phase 2..................................................................................................................................................11

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Phase 3..................................................................................................................................................12
References.................................................................................................................................................13

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Inspiring Leadership Capstone Project Report
My action plan for leadership improvement
My leadership reflection
What do I appreciate about myself?
My five days’ workshop and the Boston journey caused a lot of impact in my leadership life.
Regarding initiating changes, I can now comfortably assess the extent of any problem that
emerges in an organization (Dombrowski & Mielke, 2013).
Then engage in proper planning to implement the changes by investigating the speed at which
the business organisation can absorb the difference(Dionne et al., 2014).
Am capable of determining the other factors that can impact the change negatively.
What areas can I be a better version of myself?
The other thing to take care as a way of leadership improvement is taking the break and
encouraging other employees in doing the same as well.
Every employee wants a flexible job and better-balanced work-life(Snoek & Volman, 2014).
Therefore, I will always encourage the employees in walking around the office and taking the
lunch away from the office.
I will as well reward the employees with at least a day off, especially after long working hours
seasons.
What does my team appreciate my leadership?
As a leader, another critical area I need to look into is appreciating the team that was working
with by showing how I understand their dynamics(Brewer et al., 2016).

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Its achievable through showing the individuals that I appreciate every effort made in attaining
specific goals by delivering praises in their office(Ali, 2014).
I will practice my talent and gifts in appreciating the greatness of other individuals.
How am I better able to improve my relationship with my staff/ organisation as a leader?
Time conscious is crucial in every effective leader.
I should be in the position of Setting up a good relationship of the objectivity and being
concerned about how every individual think about me as their leader is vital.
I will be able to save time by ensuring the goals of the meeting are very clear and making sure
everyone is aware of the scope and focus of what to discuss.
What are my organisational practices that have been successful?
From the Boston experience and my peers were able to learn the following.
Clarity is one of the critical elements in delivering useful information since it's vital for the
communication to be clear, concise and transparent(Singer et al., 2013).
To have one clear voice as a leader, I should be able to do the following according to PAUL N.
LARSEN.
Discover my critical values, for instance, giving priority to what is more important
to reach the outcome that I want through Establishing a congruent vision
I will Create a good relationship with credibility and influence through considering an
appropriate method of engagement to attain the results.

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As a leader, I will train myself to make the right decisions to help in revealing my courage and
the confidence to stand out(William & Ulmer, 2013).
I will express my leadership brand by informing my final expression to make a prolonged impact
How am I able to improve the practices in my organisation?
Within 12 months I will establish communication of practice that will help in encouraging
teachers from various centres to engage in professional sharing(Shaw, Norlin, Gillespie,
Weissman, & McGrath, 2013).
I will also strengthen the development of teacher-professional capacity providers.
What are my personal mastery goals?
In 6 months I will be in a position of taking daily breaks and also encourage the other members
of the staff in doing the same.
In the next 12 months, I shall be capable of planning trips and learning journeys to help in taking
the breaks and also encourage others to do the same.
What are my interpersonal mastery goals to develop my leadership?
In the six months, I will establish a journal to help in encouraging more reflective practices and
record the conversation with my leaders and other teachers.
In 12 months, I will be comfortable to engage more professional discussions and conversations
by participating in focus groups like MAPP or the EY.
What are my organisational development goals?
In 6 months I will be able to establish a link to encourage the professional sharing and
conversations by carrying out 1-2 COP.

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Then in 12 months, I will be able to plan termly COP that will ensure engaging children in
professional conversations in early years is essential.
Success measures
I will be able to know achieved the above goals when am able in meeting the following.
Firstly, when able to take a step far from the office every day and also going for vacations and
short trips four times every year(Hassanzadeh, Kanaani, & Elahi, 2012).
I shall upload the photos on social media like Facebook to keep the records of these short
breaks(De Jong & Den Hartog, 2010).
When my professional conversation circle has raised through different COP.
When my recording journal has entries on a weekly basis outlining thoughts and conversations
with leaders, teachers and the mantle(Men, 2013)
I will know achieved the above through the feedback through a survey indicating the
effectiveness of a professional discussion in the first phase.
When being able to identify and plan the level heads in the department of EY in every four
termly at the beginning of every term in the year 2019.

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My capstone project
The capstone project is the platform that is going to use in facilitating and enacting changes in
my leadership intentions.
My overall change statement is to enhance the acceptance of change of co-operative learning via
the COP by the teachers within September 2019 (De Jong & Den Hartog, 2010).
The problem that I am going to address in my change management project is the professional
conversations in COP.
This change is about making sure that the teachers are provided with the autonomy to make
decisions on the experiences of the children with the help of the following guidelines.
The "VOICE". This is an acronym that stands for
Values
Outcomes
Influence
Courage and

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Expression
These guidelines are essential in equipping the teachers with reflective thinking.
What is the goal you would like to achieve in your capstone project?
The first goal that I want to achieve through this project is ensuring that all teachers are provided
with the platform in which they can communicate with one another.
I will be able to know I have achieved the goal in my capstone project when the COP has been
well implemented and has been scheduled as the part of PD.
The sources of the information needed
The current reality in my workplace
At the moment there is no COP among the teachers in my workplace.
The teachers are drained or burnout due to overworking.
I will use the following three tools.
Tool 1
I will use this tool in defining the opportunities and the threats (Gupta & Mishra, 2016).
There are two types of the threats.
The short-term threats. The teachers are not able to plan the purposeful engagement activities for
the children (Van den Brink et al., 2011).

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The long-term threats. The child cannot be able to develop holistically (Baracaldo & Joshi,
2013).
The opportunities are as well as two types.
The short-term opportunities. The teachers shall be able to involve each other in DAP planning.
The long-term opportunities. The teachers will be to develop a culture of planning a purposeful
engagement activity through tapping each other to prevent burnout and facilitate the reflective
thinking (Meland & Gjære, 2012).
Tool 2
The second tool will make use of the 3Ws
W1- What are the facts and the data that I need to make this change? For my case, I will be
interested in the number of teachers in every own level.
W2- Where can I get the resources to help me in making the change? I will engage the
respective centre principles
W3- Who can I tap as a resource to help with this change? I will tap the various senior teachers
from the individual centres.
Tool 3
The last tool will make use of the mind map.
The mind map of this change will be represented with different pictures.
According to the research carried out recently, the picture stimulates more compared to spoken
words thus encouraging more ideas.

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The following are the procedures that I will use to map my staff to accept this change.
I will employ emphasis through the use of different sizes of words during the presentation for the
main areas
I will use different coloured arrows to show the connection between groups, for instance, the
teachers, leaders and the children.
Lastly, I will ensure am clear to provide clear capture of the whole picture.
This aligned with the vision and mission of my organisation regarding deciding a group through
professional conversations
My stakeholder's map will look like a group map in which people collaborate and combine their
creative abilities.
What are my assumptions
Many individuals are not in a position of opening up and share their thoughts since they have
differing beliefs.
I should be able to understand myself appropriately and be mindful as well mind about the other
individuals.
I should be able to understand other people may have different thoughts and beliefs.
My Capstone Project Implementation Plan
This will be my plan for implementing my capstone project. The implementation will be based
on the factors and the goals outline outlined earlier.
The implementation plan will be carried out through three phases.

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Phase 1
The primary objective of this particular phase is to foster a significant link among the teachers
from various centres in Bukit Batok and Kebun Baru.
Timeframe: June- July
The stakeholders are the parents, teachers' leaders and the children in Bukit Batok and Kebun
Baru.
The main activities in Phase 1 are the plan of the events that will foster a relationship among the
teachers during the PD.
I shall use the feedback form as a way of my success measure.
To make sure the plan implementation meet my leadership goals, I will establish a chat room in
what apps for networking and sharing.
Then I will also be required to schedule COP termly.
I will use the following evidence to indicate my achievements.
Verifications of the project by various stakeholders like the centre principles.
The implementation of the same project by different teachers in their respective centres.
Phase 2
The principal objective of the second phase is to encourage the PD via the professional
conversation within the COP
The Time Frame: September.