Let’s assume that tomorrow you come into work and the world has fast-forwarded — it is now 2025. Things have changed… several developments, both small and large, have happened that they seem like miracles, and your organization has become your ideal working environment. It is the organization you always imagined it could be—people are excited to come to work every day. Describe what you see happening. What does your typical day look like? What are your co-workers doing? What positive impact is the organization having both internally with employees and externally with other stakeholders in its ecosystem? What is happening in 2025 that exemplifies the ideal organization you have always imagined? Describe what you see in this ideal future state.

Part II: Your Current/Real Organization (approx 3 pages)

Once you have a sense of your ideal organization, it’s time to look at how that ideal compares with your current “real” organization and its daily practices. To do this, use share your reflections on the following 3 areas:

1. My Organization’s Strengths – What do you see as your greatest current strengths and assets of your organization? (consider the different elements of the leadership ecosystem, what are the assets both tangible and intangible of your organization? Values? Ways of working? Relationships? Etc.)
2. My Organization’s Competencies around Leaderful Practices – Using Raelin’s 4-Cs of Leaderful Practice, assess where you see your organization currently on each of the following dimensions:
   • Concurrent Leadership Practices:
     • Collective Leadership Practices
     • Collaborative Leadership Practices
     • Compassionate Leadership Practices
3. My Organization’s Opportunities for Leadership Development – Comparing your organization’s “real” self to your “ideal” state, what do you see as the 2 – 3 greatest opportunities your organization has to further develop and strengthen a culture of shared leadership (You can write this as a simple sentence or paragraph)?

Part III: Your Organizational Learning Plan (approx 3 pages)

Imagining yourself as a coach to your current organization, what would be 2–3 leadership development goals you would suggest the organization undertake within the next 6 months to 2 years? Similar to the format of your individual leadership goals, consider writing these as SMART goals that could be presented to others as initial ideas for actions the organization could take/invest in to help develop leadership across the organization.

Part IV: Your Organizational Experiment (approx 1 page)

Imagine that you were given the ‘green light’ on one of your suggestions above. What would be your specific plan for putting into place a beta-test experiment for the organization to begin cultivating more leaderful practices? What would be the specific work you would encourage others to do; policies & structures to change, behaviors to begin? How would you track the impact of this experiment?

Part V: Supporting Individuals (approx 1 page)

Just as your individual development benefits from supportive relationships, so too does an organization’s development rely on key advocates and champions. Who are the 2 – 3 leadership champions within your organization (and they do not have to be in formal leadership roles), individuals you see as being key to helping to support and nurture a culture of leaderful practices within your organization? Summarize briefly who these individuals are, why they are an important ally for leadership development within your organization, and how they could help contribute to an organizational development agenda.

Please submit:

• An approximately 9-page, double-spaced, Times, 12-point font Word document that provides your analysis and reflections to the above prompts, with a minimum of 4 references.You are welcome to write your paper in a narrative, 1st person voice.