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.
