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Question: Scenario

You are the Project Manager in a large healthcare facility for Be Well Health System. The organization consists of 3 hospitals and 15 clinic/specialty facilities that were acquired over the past 10 years as part of the company's growth strategy. While the sites are part of the Be Well Health System, many operate independently as they did before the acquisitions.

This strategy has worked well for the organization. Given the changing environment of the healthcare industry, Be Well's executive team wants to make sure the organization is not growing too fast or stretching their resources too thin and impacting patient care or service. They know other organizations are working to consolidate and standardize their business operations and realize they will need to do the same to remain competitive.

The executive team would like to put together a strategic workgroup with representatives and key stakeholders from all the sites to start exploring how a consolidated organization might look and function successfully for all the sites. You know the group will have a lot of work to do, and in order to be successful, it is important that the right team of people is selected for the workgroup.

You have been asked to provide the group with information about how to identify the skills needed for this new workgroup, build the team, and develop staff so they are successful. You also know that not everyone understand the differences between the principles of management and strategic management, so you plan to start by presenting that information to the group.

You recognize that this is a major undertaking for the organization and you want to do everything you can to make sure it is successful. You believe that providing professional development for yourself as the PM and the workgroup team members, will increase your chances for success.

For this last part of your project, you will be creating a professional development plan for yourself and workgroup team members. Include all the concepts that you have learned in this course as part of the strategic management topics, as well as, the soft skills we have focused on during the project scenario.