Response to two Colleagues

Two (2) Colleagues post :

1st Colleagues post:

Sara DiCostanzo 

RE: Discussion - Week 7

COLLAPSE

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The goal I want to achieve deals with equality and treating everyone fairly as the value of justice was one of my highest scores on the personal values survey.  I have never been one to sit back and watch people talk poorly about another person because they are different from them and my goal is to one day stop the stereotype conversations from going on in the department I work in (Tavakoli, 2015).  Especially with all the negative scenes we have seen in the news this past year, it is time for a positive change to stop the negative comments because someone may be different than us.

The questions asked during the week six discussion did not have me question or dig deeper into the goal that I had written.  There were some good questions but none that made me think differently about my goal or want to modify my goal in anyway.  My goal pertains to the value of justice and one of the questions asked was whether I think I could be taken advantage of for the value of humanity where I have a tendency of going out of my way to help others and not learning to say no (DiCostanzo, 2021).  While humanity and justice can go hand in hand, I do not see how being taken advantage of will alter or impact the goal of removing stereotype comments from the workplace.

One will be to provide additional training to everyone in the shop to include a question-and-answer session at the end (Kegan & Lahey, 2010).  Have human relations be a core presenter as they tend to focus on ensuring everyone is treated equally and fairly and they will be able to provide direct guidance from the policies and procedures that the company already has in place.  Another objective will be an off-site teambuilding day where a workshop will be set up to have an interactive role play with pre-setup scripts where the employees will have the ability to act out a scenario and then discuss the scenario and what parts would be considered inclusive, diverse, equal, etc.

                One measurable milestone will be that the workers, as well as supervisors, will no longer make comments about another’s race, gender, religion, sexuality, etc.  Also, creating a survey for the employees to take and measure their understanding (before and after training) of what can be considered discrimination/inequality after some training will help in determining if the training is being efficient.  A second measurable milestone will be the number of reports or complaints to the employee concerns program (ECP) will decrease from what they are today (DiCostanzo, 2021).  I will document the number of reports to date and after eighteen months, I will tally up the total reports and see should see a decrease.

References

DiCostanzo, S.  (2021).  Discussion – Week 6: Shared Practice: Values, Principles, Ethics, and Goals for WMBA6000.

Kegan, R., & Lahey, L. (2010). Adult development and organizational leadership.  In N. Nohria & R. Khurana (Eds.), Handbook of leadership theory and practice: A Harvard Business School centennial colloquium (pp. 769–788). Boston, MA: Harvard Business Review.

Tavakoli, M. (2015). Diversity & inclusion drive success for today’s leaders: effective organizations and leaders are those that recognize diversity and inclusion as essential to business operations. TD Magazine, (5), 46.

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2nd Colleagues post:

Shared Practice: Clarifying Your Goals with a Plan of Action”.

Goal: Finish Master’s Degree program at Walden University

Objective for goals:

To become a director by June 2022, I must complete the Master’s program by February 2022.  In order to complete the Master’s degree program at Walden by June 2022, I must continue straight through taking classes only taking two breaks if needed.

Once my director retires in the upcoming year, I will need to land an interview with the VP.

Timeline:

· June 2021, I must complete three safety events to land the interview.

· September 2021, I will need to have the budget report and reconciliation process aligned, to land the interview.

· January 2022 If I go straight through to complete my degree.

· May 2022, If I need to take off up to16 weeks.

 

Completing my degree is vitally important to the completion of my professional career goals.  I have laid out a timeline for my goals that I must complete to even be considered for a director position within the organization in which I work. There are a couple of things I must do for me to even be considered for the interview with the VP and getting this director position. I have listed that I must complete three safety events. In completing three safety events lead and spared headed by me it will show my potential, what I am made of, how I can create and follow through.  Just applying for this position is a desire of mine to show my potential, to keep from holding myself back, from leadership in which I know and believe I have been working hard for as well as destiny for.  “This type of initiative takes time, humility, and a willingness to confront weaknesses, fears, and blind spots that many of us would rather ignore” (Kaplan, R. S. (2008)).  Taking the time to complete these three events this year 2021 will show I am capable and willing to take on the responsibility. It will also show that I have overcome my weaknesses and fears as well as able to conquer the blind spots. 

Creating processes that will help the flow of the budget, Is an additional portion that must be put in place in order for me to land this interview for the director position. This process  will ensure every cent is properly allocated.  Having a process in place will ensure if in fact an error was to take place it will be rapidly found and corrected.  for organization processes are important so that if anyone was to come behind me in my position they could step in without having to be trained. So every process will be published electronically as well as paper . This way any director could come in and fill in. Knowing what will bring success in this position is vitally important. The budget in this position is most important it is a $10.5 billion budget that will be in my hands. Now I assist in this budget in the new position I will handle OK the budget period which means distributing funds to each Department assuring funds are not being misused. What also is important the “need to know what will drive success in the new position and then, ask yourself whether you enjoy those key tasks” (Kaplan, R. S. (2008).  Enjoying what you do in this position is vital important because there will be some hard moments and when things get stressful and get hard you may feel like you want to abandon it. But when you love what you do you understand tomorrow is in will be a better day.

Lastly, completing my degree has been a challenge. I have started and stopped started and stopped and now starting again. I have a total of seven classes to complete that includes the class I am presently in. At this time hopefully I finish this class well I've also had some challenges during this semester where I am not submitted my best work, but I'm doing my best now hopefully this will pull me through to at least finish with a B. I spread out the time to complete my Master’s degree because we don't know what the future holds and there may come a time where I may have to take a couple of weeks off and that could change my completion date. But it was important for me to understand and lay everything out so I know if I created too big of a cushion, I would miss the opportunity to interview for this director’s position.

 

 

Kaplan, R. S. (2008). Reaching your potential. Harvard Business Review, 86(7/8), 45– 49.