What is a leadership intervention?

For the final project for this course, you will develop a Leadership Intervention Strategy (LIS) for a make-believe prison that has asked for your help.
What is a leadership intervention?
The term “intervention” refers to a set of sequenced, planned actions or events intended to help an organization increase its effectiveness. Interventions are often facilitated by outside organizational development consultants or employees within the organization who have the competencies associated with a trusted change agent. In this case, you are going to take the role of an outside consultant.
Interventions can be done at the individual level, team level, and organizational level. What is important to keep in mind is the objective of all interventions is to help improve the effectiveness of individuals, groups, teams, and organizations.
An intervention strategy can be relatively simple in terms of one initiative to address a problem. For example, a company develops a safety committee after this was identified as an operating deficiency. However, most intervention strategies are more complex and have more than one initiative or sub-strategies which make up one large strategy. The complex approach is what you will do for your Prison X – Leadership Intervention Strategy for this course.
To assist you in planning for the final project, the following table provides a high-level overview of the final project deliverables during the course.
Week #
Final Project: Leadership Intervention Strategy – Prison X
1
LIS – Initial Assessment
Summarize the Prison X scenario including a statement of purpose for the intervention and its expected outcome.
Evaluate the specific critical issues, needs, and challenges that may be affecting this organization and its culture.
3
LIS – Intervention Development
Analyze the warden’s leadership repertoire and its impact on the organization, its culture, and how the mood of the organization may affect the various operational components.
Assess the five critical need areas requiring immediate intervention.
Develop a minimum of three intervention strategies for each of the five critical need areas identified above that seek to minimize dissonant styles and create resonant leadership.
Create a detailed plan for conducting the interventions.
5
LIS – Implementation and Evaluation
Analyze the warden’s effectiveness as a leader, where gaps may exist, and what leadership skills may need to improve.
Justify at least five key learning and professional development objectives that will enhance the warden’s effectiveness and a six-month learning plan to develop his emotional intelligence and associated competencies as well as strategies to overcome his resistance to change.
Evaluate how your six-month LIS will be implemented and measured including at least three metrics you will employ to measure and track results as well as how you will measure its ROI.
Assess how the application of emotional intelligence and leadership theory will minimize change resistance and foster appreciation and organizational support of your plan.
Provide a detailed summary of your six-month LIS, including:
The positive changes you hope to achieve
Justification of your methods and strategies
Potential challenges or roadblocks to your plan
Strategies and tactics for overcoming these challenges
A timeline for implementation and review of each component of the plan

Components to Include in the Week 1 Final Project
Your deliverable for Week 1 of the final project constitutes a case overview and an initial analysis of specific critical issues, needs, and challenges that may be affecting this organization and its culture.
Tasks:
Read the CASE of Prison X – Leadership Intervention Strategy.
Summarize the Case Scenario
Provide a background of the purpose for intervention.
Summarize the key facts of the case.
Conduct a Needs Analysis
Analyze the specific critical issues, needs, and challenges that may be affecting this organization and its culture.
Generally, evaluation of topics and sources should include four or five resources and one or two pages of analysis.

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