Taking Action: Organizing, Leading, and Controlling

A good manager plans ahead before starting a new project. They take time to get everything ready so the work goes smoothly. Managers need to be good at organizing things and leading people. In today's fast-changing business world, it's important for managers to do both these jobs well. By looking at how managers organize and lead, we can learn what makes them good at their job. When managers understand these skills, they can help their teams do better work and reach their goals. Overview Create a paper or oral presentation that explains how a manager would take action in a situation. Remember to use insights from the Breaking Down Big Tasks to Build Momentum activity to help describe how a manager should effectively plan. Preparation Step 1: Choose a topic: Increase corporate sales (sales department). Plan and run a company event (any department). A project from your current or previous workplace. Step 2: Choose a format: Academic Paper: Length: 2–3-pages double-spaced, excluding your title page and references page. Template: Academic Paper Template [DOCX]. Speech: Length: 2–4-minute speech.  Template: Four-Minute Speech Template [PPTX].  Resources: For guidance on recording your speech, review Using Kaltura or Using Zoom. Visit Assessment Resources to review the following helpful aids: Basic Tasks for Creating a PowerPoint Presentation. Record a Presentation.  Instructions Choose one of the topics and describe the actions a manager should take when planning, organizing, and leading. After describing the situation you chose, describe how a manager will be effective.  In your assessment, using the situation you chose, make sure to address each bullet point below. Describe characteristics of effective managers related to the situation. Explain how an effective manager should behave in the situation. Describe how a manager should plan for the situation to be successful. Describe what a manager would need to organize in the situation. Describe how the manager should lead in the situation.