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Scenario
You work as a director of leadership and learning for an organization that makes prosthetics. This year’s employee engagement survey results for the organization show that some leadership practices are rated lower, while some practices were rated higher. The new chief human resources officer (CHRO) met with the team to discuss the general results. Everyone agrees that the company’s focus should be on both specific leadership development areas perceived as strengths
and on those rated as areas for improvement, primarily regarding social intelligence, emotional intelligence, and the interpersonal skills of effective leaders.
To help this initiative, your manager, the vice president of leadership and learning, asked you to create an adaptive leadership toolkit that can be used throughout the organization. To begin this work, you conducted a personal leadership self-assessment and turned this into a personal development plan. Then you shared this artifact with your manager. Your manager was impressed with the thoroughness of the personal development plan and saw value in incorporating it as an exemplar within the adaptive leadership toolkit for use by all people leaders in the organization. After receiving such positive feedback from your manager, you are now ready to move forward on developing the adaptive leadership toolkit that will be shared with your manager and chief human resources officer (CHRO) of the organization.
Prompt
1. Summarize the
business problems the organization is currently facing and describe how the adaptive leadership toolkit will address these problems.
2. Based on the employee satisfaction survey, identify the skills and behaviors that are
current strengths exhibited by leadership and explain how these strengths are critical to the success of the organization.
3. Based on the employee satisfaction survey, identify the skills and behaviors that are
current areas of weakness for leadership and explain how these areas may be improved by applying the self-assessment you used to create your own personal development plan.
4. Describe the importance of including a
personal development plan as an exemplar in the adaptive leadership toolkit and explain how SMART goal setting can help to improve the areas of weakness for leaders within the organization.
5. Explain how the personal development plan and SMART goal setting could help develop the
leadership styles of the leaders within the organization.
What to Submit
Submit a 3- to 4-page Word document using 12-point Times New Roman font, double spacing, and one-inch margins.
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Great work! After successfully completing analyses of your company’s internal and external business environments, you have now reached the final project milestone.
In this assignment, you will conduct a buy-build-ally analysis of the company and recommend a strategy that the company can implement over the next five years to achieve the targeted growth.
Prompt
Perform a
buy-build-ally analysis for your company and recommend actions the company can take to realize the identified opportunity within five years. Use resources such as the company website, which will have pertinent information including its most recent sustainability report, and other relevant sources to help complete this presentation.
Create a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation to show the results of your analysis and present your recommendations. Use both on-slide text and narration or speaker notes in your PowerPoint slides to convey your information effectively. If narration is not possible, precise and extensive speaker notes should be used, while addressing all of the rubric elements in the presentation. For example, you can use brief, bulleted lists summarizing the highlights of your analysis on the slide and include more detailed explanations in your speaker notes.
Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:
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Implementation strategy (slides 1–3): Recommend an implementation strategy for your company.
a. Determine whether the company will need to
buy, build, or ally with another company. Consider the skills, facilities, products, and services the company will need to capitalize on the identified opportunity.
b. Use the speaker notes of your presentation to explain the
strategy behind your buy, build, and ally recommendations.
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Timeline (slides 4–5): Construct a timeline showing what your company should achieve by the end of each year for the next five years.
What to Submit
Create a PowerPoint presentation with on-slide text and narration or detailed speaker notes. Your presentation should be 5 to 7 slides in length. Ensure that you include properly cited resources on the reference slide. Sources should be cited according to APA style.
