Strategic plans represent the culmination of fact-gathering, analysis, and thoughtful deliberation. Strong leaders will determine the direction of their organizations through strategic planning. This assignment provides an opportunity for you to practice this critical skill and develop a strategic plan for implementing evidence-based leadership in an organization.

By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assignment criteria:

• Competency 1: Analyze contemporary healthcare issues from an evidence-based leadership perspective.
  • Analyze external or competing forces within an organization that may have affected the organization when an issue or crisis arose.
• Competency 2: Apply evidence-based leadership principles to problem-solving in real-world healthcare organizations.
  • Evaluate organizational leadership abilities or deficits.
  • Analyze metrics for organizational success.
• Competency 3: Propose evidence-based leadership actions and strategic planning options that promote positive behavioral change, collaboration, workforce performance, and outcomes in contemporary healthcare organizations.
  • Recommend specific, evidence-based, strategic steps that organizational leaders should take in implementing EBL to improve organizational performance and patient health outcomes.
  • Assess the potential future of an organization.
• Competency 4: Communicate effectively with diverse audiences, in an appropriate form and style consistent with applicable organizational, professional, and scholarly standards.
  • Write clearly and concisely in a logically coherent and appropriate form and style.

Scenario

You are wrapping up work with your chosen organization with the delivery of a strategic plan. The strategic plan will integrate all of your work to date and will provide your recommendations for implementing evidence-based leadership to improve organizational performance and patient health outcomes. You will also provide your assessment of the organization's future.

As an evidence-based leadership consultant, you are committed to providing a forthright and honest assessment and carefully considered recommendations. Not all healthcare organizations in crisis can survive.

Instructions

Develop a strategic plan for implementing evidence-based leadership in the organization. Note: your Week 9 discussion post will help you prepare for this assignment. Be sure to complete it before completing your final submission.

Document Format and Length

Format your strategic plan using APA style.

• Use the APA Style Paper Tutorial to help you in writing and formatting your plan. Be sure to include:
  • A title page and references page. An abstract is not required.
  • A running head on all pages.
  • Appropriate section headings.
• Your strategic plan should be 8–14 pages of content plus title and references pages.

Supporting Evidence

Cite 3–5 credible sources from peer-reviewed journals or professional industry publications to support your recommendations and strategic plan.

Strategic Plan Requirements

The requirements outlined below correspond to the grading criteria in the assignment rubric, so be sure to address each point. Read the performance-level descriptions for each criterion to see how your work will be assessed.

• Evaluate organizational leadership abilities or deficits.
  • Base your evaluation on the analysis of the organizational leadership structure and approach in place when the issue or crisis arose and current leadership.
  • Use EBL terminology in your evaluation.
• Analyze external or competing forces within the organization that may have affected the organization when the issue or crisis arose.
  • Identify specific external or competing forces.
  • Explain the basis of your conclusions about their potential effects on the organization.
• Analyze at least three metrics for organizational success.
  • Describe your rationale for choosing these particular benchmarks.
  • Explain how these metrics or benchmarks align with organizational goals.
• Recommend specific, evidence-based, strategic steps that organizational leaders should take in implementing EBL to improve organizational performance and patient health outcomes.
  • Include specific performance metrics or benchmarks.
  • Be sure to explain how and why your recommendations should be implemented.
  • Identify evidence that supports your recommendations.
• Provide your assessment of the potential future for this organization.
  • Predict the likelihood of the organization's survival and recovery from this crisis.
  • Include recommendations: Do you recommend closure? Merger with another organization? New leadership?
  • Identify what must change or be implemented to ensure a positive outcome for the organization.
• Write clearly and concisely in a logically coherent and appropriate form and style.
  • Write with a specific purpose and audience in mind.
  • Adhere to scholarly and disciplinary writing standards and APA formatting requirements.