MSW6006 Leadership in Social Work Practice
Week 1 Assignment 1
Classify Leadership and Management in Social Services Organizations
Instructions
Complete a brief written analysis of the similarities and differences of leadership and management roles as they relate to human services organizations. Include how your understanding of these roles may affect you as you assume a supervisory position. Provide examples of both leadership and management in the field to support your findings. Conclude by discussing similarities and differences in how leaders and managers analyze and implement policies in their human services organization.
Support your assignment with at least three scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including seminal articles, may be included.
Length: 3-5 pages, not including title and reference pages
Your assignment should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course by providing new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards. Be sure to adhere to Northcentral University’s Academic Integrity Policy.
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MSW6006 Leadership in Social Work Practice
Week 1 Assignment 2
Provide Insight to your Leadership Style
Instructions
For this assignment, you will prepare a brief video. You may use the Video Note tool in NCUOne or other software of your choosing.
Create and upload a video in which you introduce yourself and discuss your leadership role (if applicable) and your leadership style.
Describe your leadership style from completing the assessment in this week’s resources.
Explain your previous leadership roles and skills (both personally and professionally), if applicable.
Describe an individual who might serve as an inspiration for you in a future leadership role. How does this person operate day to day in a human services leadership role?
Evaluate what style of leadership seems to be a good fit for you as you prepare for a leadership role in social work, and explain why.
Explain how you will use the NASW Code of Ethics as a model for your leadership style in human services.
To create a Video Note, select the Record video option in the assignment submission area. You will need your webcam to complete this video. Press the New Recording button when you are ready to record your video note and the Stop Recording when finished. Click the Add button to include the video in your assignment submission. Note, the Video Note tool records a maximum of 3 minutes. Plan on splitting your video into multiple segments if need be.
Alternate assignment: If you do not have access to a webcam, prepare a 3 to 5-page paper of a transcript for a mock podcast that addresses the same topics noted above.
MSW6006 Leadership in Social Work Practice
Week 2 Assignment
Examine Emotional Intelligence for Effective Leadership
Instructions
Consider what it means to be emotionally intelligent. As you learned from this week’s resources, emotional intelligence is your ability to recognize your feelings along with others’ emotions. In leadership, emotional intelligence is used to manage your emotions while motivating your staff and employees. No one will have all of the traits of being a good leader, so it is important to recognize those traits you must develop in yourself. In this assignment, you will connect emotional intelligence to good leadership skills.
Begin by reviewing this week’s resources again and completing the emotional intelligence self-assessment.
Then, write a self-assessment to address the following:
Describe your personal traits that will help you as an effective leader. Provide missing traits that may hamper your performance as a leader.
Indicate whether you agree with the findings of the emotional intelligence assessment and explain why.
Examine methods to start developing the traits you identified as important but do not currently possess.
Use this assessment to analyze necessary traits for you to become a better leader that addresses possible performance difficulties in a human services organization. These can be your hurdles or those of employees who may work under your supervision.
Support your assignment with at least three scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including seminal articles, may be included.
Length: 5-7 pages, not including title and reference pages
Your assignment should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course by providing new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards. Be sure to adhere to Northcentral University’s Academic Integrity Policy.
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MSW6006 Leadership in Social Work Practice
Week 3 Assignment
Explore Evidence-Based Interventions for Responding to Safety Issues in the Workplace
Instructions
To begin this week’s assignment, conduct research in the NCU library on violence in the workplace related to the field of social work. Reflect on possible scenarios that could present in a human services organization.
For this week’s assignment, you will prepare a pamphlet with a best practices checklist to meet the goal of ensuring a safe working environment. Draft a plan for a human services organization concerning how to address traumatic emergency situations. Include both how to respond to an emergency and how to address any long-term effects based on theories you explored this week. Finally, based on this week’s resources and your personal experiences, explain your greatest concern about the safety of social workers working in a human services organization and illustrate how you would address these concerns as a social work leader.
Your checklist should include the most important points from your educational pamphlet that social work leaders could implement immediately with their own teams.
Support your assignment with at least three scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including seminal articles, may be included.
Length: 2-3 page pamphlet with 1-2 page checklist, but not including title and reference pages
Your assignment should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course by providing new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards. Be sure to adhere to Northcentral University’s Academic Integrity Policy.
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MSW6006 Leadership in Social Work Practice
Week 4 Assignment
Analyze Strengths and Weaknesses of Different Leadership Styles
Instructions
For this assignment, analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the three different leadership styles: transformational, authentic, and servant.
To complete this task, create a table where you list each of the leadership styles and the pros and cons of implementing these styles in the following types of social services agencies. Be sure to briefly assess how each style may influence social work values and ethics related to practice.
Children’s protective service
Community service agencies
Schools
The justice system
Hospitals
Support your assignment with at least three scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including seminal articles, may be included.
Length: one comprehensive chart, not including title and reference pages
Your assignment should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course by providing new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards where appropriate. Be sure to adhere to Northcentral University’s Academic Integrity Policy.
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MSW6006 Leadership in Social Work Practice
Week 5 Assignment
Examine the Application of Leadership Theories in a Human Service Organization
Instructions
For this assignment, you will apply the two leadership theories discussed this week to a human services organization of your choice.
This can be the same agency as the one that will be the focus of your Signature Assignment. Assume you have been asked to present during a training meeting for newly appointed leaders of this agency.
First, briefly describe the social service agency[1] with which you are familiar. Be sure to include the mission and goals of the agency, the population(s) it serves, and the organizational structure of the agency.
Apply either the path-goal or leader-member exchange theory to the agency. Determine which approach you think best describes how the agency is managed and explain why.
Explain whether this approach results in the best outcomes for the clients served. Recommend best practices to ensure ethical standards are upheld during client service delivery.
Incorporate appropriate animations, transitions, and graphics as well as speaker notes for each slide. The speaker notes may be comprised of brief paragraphs or bulleted lists and should cite material appropriately. Add audio to each slide using the Media section of the Insert tab in the top menu bar for each slide.
Support your presentation with at least three scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources may be included.
Length: 12-15 slides (with a separate reference slide)
Notes Length: 100-150 words for each slide
Be sure to include citations for quotations and paraphrases with references in APA format and style where appropriate. Save the file as PPT with the correct course code information.
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MSW6006 Leadership in Social Work Practice
Week 6 Assignment
Explain Cultural Competence for Administrators as Advocates & Policy Makers
Instructions
This week, you will prepare a white paper. Explain cultural competence for administrators who will act as advocates and policy makers. Consider how social work administrators might apply their leadership roles to increase cultural competency and advance social and economic justice within their organizations. Address the following in your white paper:
Explain strategies social work administrators may use to become advocates for social change through cultural competence.
Determine the challenges administrators may face in developing cultural competency within their organizations. Provide examples to support your findings.
Recommend strategies administrators might use to address the challenges of developing the cultural competency of their organizations. Be sure to include strategies for performance difficulties and ethical concerns in your report.
Formulate potential policies administrators could implement to develop and maintain cultural competency in their organizations.
Support your assignment with at least three scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including seminal articles, may be included.
Length: 5-7 pages, not including title and reference pages
Your assignment should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course by providing new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards. Be sure to adhere to Northcentral University’s Academic Integrity Policy.
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MSW6006 Leadership in Social Work Practice
Week 7 Assignment
Evaluate Social Work Licensure Requirements
Instructions
Assume you were asked to create a visual aid to assist new social workers in understanding how state licensure requirements and federal legislation are related and complement each other in your state of practice. Create a diagram to illustrate licensure and regulation requirements and how they intersect. You may create your own design or use a template available from Word, PowerPoint, or another software program. This diagram should contain the following:
Briefly explain the state office that oversees social work licensure.
Examine the different types of social work licensure in your state.
Illustrate the requirements for each type of license.
Outline how the requirements for licensure have evolved by assessing the legislation related to licensure in your state. Start when licensure was first passed in your state, and continue with how it has changed/evolved with each piece of follow-up legislation.
Finally, address the ways that the information from your analysis may be used to advance practice, policy, and service delivery in your organization.
Support your visual aid with at least three resources.
Length: Visual aid plus reference list.
Your assignment should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course by providing new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards where appropriate. Be sure to adhere to Northcentral University’s Academic Integrity Policy.
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MSW6006 Leadership in Social Work Practice
Week 8 Assignment
Signature Assignment: Explore Evidence-Based Intervention in a Human Service Organization
Instructions
Identify a specific human service organization (one in which you now work, have worked, or for which you have access to information). Conduct research to determine any issue(s) this organization faces that you as a social work leader could address.
Prepare a comprehensive research paper to address the following:
Identify the organization and provide its mission, size, programs, services, and a brief description of the leadership team.
Provide the organizational structure of the agency.
Explain an issue or problem that the organization is facing or has faced in the recent past.
Analyze this issue or problem from a leadership theoretical perspective. Pay particular attention to change approaches that are evidence-based.
Discuss the change approach used by the leader(s) of the organization. Determine which characteristics and style of leadership may have contributed to the problem. Explain which characteristics and styles are necessary to address the problem. Support your findings with research supported by theory.
Explain how these leadership styles and theories support the actions of the leader or suggest leaders should pursue a different approach to change.
Analyze how the leadership changes will fit within the context of the organization while upholding ethical standards required of social work professionals.
Support your assignment with at least five scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including seminal articles, may be included.
Length: 10-12 pages, not including title and reference pages
Your assignment should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course by providing new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards. Be sure to adhere to Northcentral University’s Academic Integrity Policy.
Upload your document, and then click the Submit to Dropbox button.
