Assignment: Focus Paper
Write a seven to nine page paper (2000-2500 words), not including the title and reference pages, describing how leadership motivates and innovates for organizational effectiveness. Includes the following:
• Introduction to a specific organizational effectiveness goal you desire to achieve through coaching and innovation.
• Discussion of coaching and its contribution to motivation, productivity, and engagement.
• Research on leadership practices that foster creativity and contribute to organizational innovation.
• Analysis of the effective use of coaching to achieve your specific goal and recommendations for increasing your personal coaching skills and techniques to improve your overall leadership effectiveness. Be sure to connect research to your analysis and recommendations.
• Analysis of your current leadership practices and how well those practices contribute to creativity and organizational innovation and recommendations for increasing your overall effectiveness in this area. Be sure to connect research to your analysis and recommendations.
• Conclusion should summarize the primary points of the paper and bring forward a call to action.
The response should include a reference list. Double-space, using Times New Roman 12 pnt font, one-inch margins, and APA style of writing and citations.