Leading Strategic Management

Professional Development Credit – This Micro-Credential may be eligible for continuing professional development credit in your state. Contact your state affiliate association to learn more.

Overview – The Leading Strategic Management Micro-Credential requires the practitioner to demonstrate proficiency of all the essential outcomes and the research-based subskills defined in the details. These include the ability to: demonstrate moral, ethical, and confident strategic leadership; delegate and capitalize on the leadership strengths of personnel; ensure effective communication and implementation of strategic management processes and results; and provide a personal growth plan with strategies, timelines, evaluation, and a monitoring process to improve strategic management skills. Schools have many moving pieces-people, partnerships, structures, routines, and resources. To effectively lead a complex organization, school leaders need to manage strategically to ensure that collective efforts within the school community support the vision and mission, and, ultimately, student success (NASSP, 2019).

Essential Outcomes – Leading Strategic Management includes the following four identified essential outcomes:

1. Demonstrate moral, ethical, and confident strategic leadership.
2. Delegate and capitalize on the leadership strengths of personnel.
3. Ensure effective communication and implementation of strategic management processes and results.
4. Develop and implement a personal growth plan with strategies, implementation timelines, evaluation, and a monitoring process focused on best practices for improving strategic management skills.

Requirements

Part 1. Overview Questions

Develop a responsive narrative that answers the following questions (1,000-word minimum):

1. In what ways do you demonstrate moral, ethical, and confident strategic leadership?
2. What processes and practices have you implemented to demonstrate strategic leadership that improves student learning?
3. What methods and tools do you use to communicate and implement strategic management processes and results?
4. What process have you used for developing a plan that ensures effective strategic management? What is your plan?
5. What evidence do you use to monitor your strategic leadership effectiveness, how have you used that evidence, and what does it say about your effectiveness?

Part 2. Skill Demonstration Product with Self-Analysis

Develop an artifact portfolio that captures the essential outcomes for the Leading Strategic Management Micro-Credential and complete the evidence self-analysis.

For each EO detail you will be required to reference an uploaded artifact(s) and guide the assessor to the specific evidence (page number, video time stamp, etc.) within the uploaded artifact(s). An explanation of how the evidence demonstrates proficiency of the outcome detail is also required. The practitioner must clearly and compellingly demonstrate proficiency of every detail under each essential outcome.

Part 3. Reflection & Application

Submit, in writing, a summary of your experience of Leading Strategic Management (500-word minimum). Provide specific examples of how you applied all components of the essential outcomes. This could include topics covered and a description of the process used to strategically lead, including plans, timelines, and results. This could also include testimonials from stakeholders on changes that have led to higher levels of learning for students. Include a reflection about the impact of this skill on your professional practice and how you will continue to apply it in the future.