Description
Demonstrate how influence and power facilitate support and buy-in for your departmental strategic plan.Every project has a deliverable or deliverables, which are the files that must be submitted before your project can be assessed. For this project, you must submit the following:Presentation
Submit a slide presentation (15–25 slides) with speaker notes that demonstrates the competency by addressing the elements outlined in the directions.
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In this project, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following competency:
Demonstrate how influence and power facilitate support and buy-in for your departmental strategic
plan
Scenario
The Association for Strategic Planning, a professional nonprofit organization, has reached out to you and
requested that you present at their local chapter meeting next month. The session’s topic is how
influence and power can be utilized to create buy-in for a department’s goals. They are asking that you
distinguish between influence and power, discuss how to build buy-in, and explain how best to use
organizational awareness. Many of the audience members will be managers and department heads, and
they work in all sectors: technology, media, industry, etc.
Directions
Your presentation with speaker notes should include the following in order to demonstrate your
understanding of how influence and power can be leveraged to create buy-in for a department’s plans:
How influence relates to creating buy-in for a strategic plan
Define influence, and elaborate on types of influence.
Explain how it can be used to create buy-in.
Explain how to identify who has influence in an organization.
How power relates to creating buy-in for a strategic plan
Define power, and elaborate on types of power dynamics within an organization.
Explain how power can be used to create buy-in.
Explain how to identify who holds power in an organization.
Describe multiple ways to create buy-in with internal stakeholders for supporting departmental strategic
plans.
Explain the importance of establishing buy-in when communicating strategic plans to internal
stakeholders.
Explain how to identify key stakeholders in the organization who are outside of the department.
Elaborate on steps to create internal buy-in.
Explain when someone would use champions in their department to promote a winning strategic idea.
Explain how someone would point out the misconceptions of the naysayers to then gain their
agreement
How to incorporate an organizational awareness of influence and power to create buy-in
Demonstrate the importance of the following elements, using examples to support your claims:
Political atmosphere
Verbal and nonverbal cues
Cultural norms within the organization
Written and unwritten rules
How the department fits within the organization
How influence and power relate to the above bullets
What to Submit
Every project has a deliverable or deliverables, which are the files that must be submitted before your
project can be assessed. For this project, you must submit the following:
Presentation
Submit a slide presentation (15–25 slides) with speaker notes that demonstrates the competency by
addressing the elements outlined in the directions.
The following rubric will be used to assess your project. The rubric is a detailed list of the specific
expectations your project submission must meet to demonstrate mastery of the competency. You may
resubmit the project until you have demonstrated mastery of each rubric row.
This competency has a Learning Resources area. This area includes units with resources such as readings
and videos, which have been provided to help support your work on this project. You may be wondering
how what you’re working on in the project fits together with these units. The following table shows how
the different rubric rows align to the units.
If you need more help with a particular rubric row, you can use the resources in the matching unit to
help support your work.
Project Rubric: Presentation
Presentation
Which Resources Can Help?
Describes types of influence
that impact buy-in to support
the departmental strategic
plan
☐
Mastered
☐ Not
Yet
Describes types of power
relationships that impact
buy-in to support the
departmental strategic plan
☐
Mastered
☐ Not
Yet
Describes multiple ways to
create buy-in with internal
stakeholders
☐
Mastered
☐ Not
Yet
Demonstrates the
importance of major
elements of organizational
awareness for creating buy-in
using specific examples
☐
Mastered
☐ Not
Yet
General
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Unit Resources:
Define Influence and
Power
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Unit Resources:
Define Influence and
Power
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Unit Resources:
Cultivating
Organizational
Stakeholder Buy-in
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Unit Resources:
Internal and External
Stakeholder Buy-in
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Unit Resources:
Organizational
Awareness
Which Resources Can Help?
Clearly conveys meaning with
correct grammar, sentence
structure, and spelling; shows
understanding of audience
and purpose
☐
Mastered
☐ Not
Yet
•
Academic Support
Lists sources where needed
using citation methods with
no major errors
☐
Mastered
☐ Not
Yet
•
Citation Help
Learning Resources
Print
This area of the competency includes additional learning resources for
the Influence and Power competency. These learning resources are
available to help you complete the project and master the competency.
These learning resources, practice activities, and knowledge checks are
not required and are not used to determine your mastery of the
competency, but you may find them helpful to refer to as you work on the
project.
The resources are divided into units by topic. This competency has four
units.
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List of Topics and Sub-Modules for Learning Resources
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Define Influence and Power Unit
Welcome to the Define Influence and Power unit. In this unit,
you will learn how to:
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Define departmental influence and types of
power relationships
Review the unit resources, then take the knowledge check to
ensure you understand the concepts explored in this unit.
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Web Page
Unit Resources: Define Influence and Power
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Practice Activity: Influence and Power in Action
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Knowledge Check: Define Influence and Power
Web Page
Quiz
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Cultivating Organizational Stakeholder Buy-in Unit
Welcome to the Cultivating Organizational Stakeholder Buyin unit. In this unit, you will learn how to:
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Create buy-in from individuals within an
organization
Review the unit resources, then take the knowledge check to
ensure you understand the concepts explored in this unit.
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Unit Resources: Cultivating Organizational Stakeholder Buy-in
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Practice Activity: Cultivating Organizational Stakeholder Buy-in
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Knowledge Check: Cultivating Organizational Stakeholder Buy-in
Web Page
Web Page
Quiz
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Internal and External Stakeholder Buy-in Unit
Welcome to the Internal and External Stakeholder Buyin unit. In this unit, you will learn how to:
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Describe how managers can leverage their
role in an organization to gain buy-in from
internal stakeholders
Review the unit resources, then take the knowledge check to
ensure you understand the concepts explored in this unit.
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Unit Resources: Internal and External Stakeholder Buy-in
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Practice Activity: Internal and External Stakeholder Buy-in
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Knowledge Check: Internal and External Stakeholder Buy-in
Web Page
Web Page
Quiz
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Organizational Awareness Unit
Welcome to the Organizational Awareness unit. In this unit,
you will learn how to:
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Apply principles of organizational awareness
Review the unit resources, then take the knowledge check to
ensure you understand the concepts explored in this unit.
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Unit Resources: Organizational Awareness
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Practice Activity: Lenses for Analysis
Web Page
Web Page
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Quiz
Knowledge Check: Organizational Awareness
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