Leadership and Control
Imagine that you have received the following e-mail from your boss about a month after they adopted your departmental plan outlined in the previous assessment.
Instructions
Create an approximately presentation targeted to your staff and leadership that effectively responds to your boss’s request found in the e-mail. Your presentation should demonstrate leadership qualities such as composure, preparation, solid communication, thoughtfulness, et cetera. The presentation should also:
Articulate the problems and their sources. (Make sure to include plausible assumptions based upon the facts presented to support your assertions.)
Detail your plan, which must address:
Retention: Describe two of the most significant steps you will take to keep employees and why you believe they will be effective.
Compensation.
Benefits.
Culture, leadership, engagement.
Hiring: Select one of the positions you identified in your organizational chart as new hire. Suggest two actions that you will take to secure new hires. Substantiate your ideas with real market data for at least one of your actions. (Cite your sources.) State any assumptions that you need to make to conduct your research. For example, candidate experience, job level, industry norms, et cetera.
Training.
Onboarding or orientation.
Communicating organizational values and culture.
Performance measure and standards: Describe how performance will be measured for one of the position types in your group. Your expectations should be consistent with your stated departmental goals.
