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Competency
In this project, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following competencies:
· Craft a communication strategy for internal and extern
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Competency
In this project, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following competencies:
· Craft a communication strategy for internal and external audiences
· Leverage internal and external intelligence to inform decision making
· Develop an adaptable leadership mindset and skill set
Scenario
You work as a director of leadership and learning for an organization that makes prosthetics. The organization has been in business since 1999 and employs over 350 people in its Tampa, Florida, headquarters and three plant locations across the Southwest. While the business is currently based in the United States, the organization is exploring ways to move into Canadian markets within the next three years. 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, you moved forward with creating the rest of the adaptive leadership toolkit.
Your manager has shared the adaptive leadership toolkit that you created with the CHRO, and it was well received. The CHRO wants to distribute this toolkit to all leaders throughout the organization—supervisors and above—and asks you to create a communication strategy that will help in the rollout and implementation of the adaptive leadership toolkit. For this project, you will create that communication strategy.
Directions
Overview: In this part of the communication strategy, you will summarize the business problems the organization is currently experiencing and provide an overview of trends from your analysis. You will also explain how a personal development plan and adaptive leadership toolkit can provide solutions to these challenges.
1. Summarize the
business problems the organization is currently facing and describe how the personal development plan and adaptive leadership toolkit will address them.
a. Why was the personal development plan created?
b. Why was the adaptive leadership toolkit developed?
2. Summarize trends in
leadership strengths observed in your analysis of the employee satisfaction survey and describe how they relate to the leadership skills and behaviors included in the adaptive leadership toolkit.
a. In which areas did leadership score well?
b. How did your analysis help to inform skills and behaviors included in the adaptive leadership toolkit?
3. Summarize trends in
leadership weaknesses observed in your analysis of the employee satisfaction survey and describe how they relate to the leadership skills and behaviors included in the adaptive leadership toolkit.
a. In which areas did leadership not score well?
b. How did your analysis help to inform skills and behaviors included in the adaptive leadership toolkit?
Personal Development Plan: In this part of the communication strategy, you will describe the personal development plan in further detail. You will include how the personal development plan supports the adaptive leadership toolkit and the value it will bring once the entire toolkit is rolled out.
4. Summarize the importance of including a
personal development plan in the adaptive leadership toolkit and explain the value it will bring to the organization.
a. How does the personal development plan support the adaptive leadership toolkit?
b. How do the strategies within the personal development plan address the business problems the organization is currently facing?
5. Explain how the personal development plan and SMART goal setting could help develop the
leadership styles of the leaders within the organization.
Adaptive Leadership Toolkit: In this part of the communication strategy, you will describe the adaptive leadership toolkit in further detail. You will include how and who the adaptive leadership toolkit brings value to within the organization.
6. Describe how the
adaptive leadership toolkit will be used and who within the organization will manage it. Your response should address the following:
a. Who is the target audience for the adaptive leadership toolkit?
b. Who are the owners of the adaptive leadership toolkit?
7. Describe the specific
leadership skills and behaviors that are included in the adaptive leadership toolkit and explain how developing these skills and behaviors will address the business problems the organization currently faces. Use trends from the employee satisfaction survey to support your response.
Rollout and Implementation: In this part of the communication strategy, you will provide more details around the rollout and implementation of the adaptive leadership toolkit throughout the organization.
8. Provide a timeframe for
rollout and implementation of the adaptive leadership toolkit and justify how this strategy supports the organization’s goal of improving leadership skills and behaviors over the next two years.
9. Describe the
metrics and deliverables associated with the rollout and implementation of the adaptive leadership toolkit. Your response should address the following:
a. How will the success of this rollout and implementation be measured?
b. What are some important milestones to consider for tracking progress?
10. Determine
methods for communicating the relevance of the adaptive leadership toolkit to stakeholders within the organization. Your response should address the following:
a. How should this be communicated to leadership to help gain buy-in?
b. How should this be communicated to its intended users to help gain buy-in?
11. Describe the
feedback and communication strategy associated with continuous improvements to the adaptive leadership toolkit. Your response should address the following:
a. How can employees provide feedback on any roadblocks, issues, or ideas for improvement?
b. How will updates to the adaptive leadership toolkit be communicated from leadership down to employees?
What to Submit
To complete this project, you must submit the following:
Communication Strategy
Submit a 10- to 12-page Word document using 12-point Times New Roman font, double spacing, and one-inch margins.
ORG.docx
DB1
In Module Nine, you will post your initial response, and then in Module Ten, you will respond to two other learners' posts. This allows you additional time to make your initial post strong, robust, and well supported.
Today's world of business is significantly impacted by technological advances. This blurring of boundaries between the physical, digital, and biological world is referred to as the Fourth Industrial Revolution (IR). Advances in artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, the internet of things (IoT), 3D printing, genetic engineering, quantum computing, and other technologies impact the way work gets done, how products are produced, and how companies achieve their objectives. Regardless of the company's size, age, or industry, advances in technology such as artificial intelligence are making their way into the daily practices of companies, and companies must consider the implications of the Fourth IR when developing strategic plans.
Consider the role these advances can play in your selected company's strategic planning.
In Module Nine, compose your initial post by addressing the following:
· Provide a brief overview of the company you have chosen for your project; where is it headquartered, and what are the services or products it provides?
· Pick an aspect of the Fourth IR (advances in artificial intelligence, robotics, the internet of things, 3D printing, genetic engineering, quantum computing, or another technology).
· How could this impact a company's strategic planning?
· Specifically, how could this aspect play a role in the strategic planning for your company?
· Within your company, what are two dangers of this aspect of the Fourth IR?
ORG
Competencies
In this project, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following competencies:
· Analyze internal and external business environments
· Recommend short-term and long-term strategic focuses
· Communicate strategy to a variety of audiences
Scenario
You have been appointed the director of strategic planning for the Fortune Global 500 company you selected in Module One.
The vice president of strategy and operations (VP) has confided in you that strategic planning has been a challenge for the company over the past year; specifically, crafting new strategies and aligning them to the company’s mission and goals. You have now been tasked with creating a new strategic planning proposal to help the company explore at least one new growth opportunity to increase its revenue or market share in the industry.
Your proposal should present a detailed analysis of the company’s internal and external environments as well as specific actions the company can take over the next five years to achieve the targeted growth. Your proposal will be presented to various stakeholders at different levels in the organization, so you will need to adapt parts of your proposal to suit different needs. Additionally, you will need to send a shorter executive summary of your proposal to the leadership team.
Directions
Strategic Planning Proposal
Complete an analysis of your company and organize this information into a presentation. Compile all slides from your milestone assignments to create a final presentation for your stakeholders. Use resources such as the company website, which will have pertinent information including its sustainability report, and other relevant sources to help complete this presentation. Be sure to address any feedback you have received on your milestone assignments.
Part 1: Presentation
Your final presentation should include the following elements:
1. Perform an
internal environment analysis of your company to understand the company’s current business environment and future goals. Present the results of your analysis.
A.
Overview (slide 1): Provide a brief overview of the company's products, services, and customer base.
B.
Existing entities (slides 2–3): Identify at least two existing partnerships, mergers, or acquisitions. Explain how these entities contribute to the company’s revenue or market share.
C.
Five-year goals (slide 4): Speculate on what the company wants to achieve in the next five years by considering their mission statement, values and goals, and relevant sections of their sustainability report.
2. Perform an
external environment analysis of your company to identify the company’s competitive environment and find an opportunity the company can utilize to grow its revenue or market share in the industry. Present the results of your analysis.
A.
Competitors (slide 5): Identify at least two of your company’s top competitors and explain how they compete with your company.
B.
Competitive advantages (slides 6–11): Evaluate your company’s competitive advantages.
i. Summarize the unique skill sets, products, location, and values of your company.
ii. Use Porter’s five forces to analyze your company’s competitiveness and growth potential in its industry. Assign a rating to your company for each of Porter’s five forces as very high (VH), high (H), low (L), or very low (VL). Justify your ratings.
C.
Area of opportunity (slides 12–13): Identify one area of opportunity that will help your company increase its revenue or market share over the next five years. Explain how this opportunity can lead to an increase in revenue or market share.
3. Conduct a
buy-build-ally analysis for your company and recommend actions your company can take to realize your identified opportunity within five years.
A.
Implementation strategy (slides 14–17): Recommend an implementation strategy for your company.
i. 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.
ii. Use the speaker notes of your presentation to explain the strategy behind your buy, build, and ally recommendations.
B.
Timeline (slides 18–19): Construct a timeline of what your company should achieve by the end of each year for the next five years.
(Note: Use both on-slide text and narration or speaker notes 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 narration or speaker notes.)
Part 2: Executive Summary
Create an e
xecutive summary of your strategic planning proposal. Remember to consider the audience and purpose of this report when drafting your summary.
1.
Purpose: Briefly explain the purpose of the proposal.
2.
Current business environment: Describe the internal and external business environments of the company.
A. Outline the various analyses you conducted and briefly summarize their importance.
B. Describe the opportunity for growth you identified and how it will impact the company’s revenue or market share.
3.
Recommendations: Recommend actions, such as buy, build, and ally, that the company should take to utilize the identified opportunity and explain the reasons for your recommendations.
What to Submit
To complete this project, you must submit the following:
Stakeholder Presentation
Submit a PowerPoint presentation with on-slide text and narration or detailed speaker notes. Your presentation should be 18 to 20 slides in length. Sources should be cited according to APA style.
Executive Summary
Submit a 2-page Word document with 12-point Times New Roman font, double spacing, and one-inch margins. Sources should be cited according to APA style.
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