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. Include sources cited according to APA style.

For further information on each of the five leadership behaviors and their two commitments, please refer to The Ten Commitments of Exemplary Leadership.

The Ten Commitments of Exemplary Leadership 

MODEL THE WAY • Clarify values by finding your voice and affirming shared values. • Set the example by aligning actions with shared values. 

INSPIRE A SHARED VISION • Envision the future by imagining exciting and ennobling possibilities. • Enlist others in a common vision by appealing to shared aspirations. 

CHALLENGE THE PROCESS • Search for opportunities by seizing the initiative and by looking outward for innovative ways to improve. • Experiment and take risks by consistently generating small wins and learning from experience. 

ENABLE OTHERS TO ACT • Foster collaboration by building trust and facilitating relationships. • Strengthen others by increasing self-determination and developing competence. 

ENCOURAGE THE HEART • Recognize contributions by showing appreciation for individual excellence. • Celebrate values and victories by creating a spirit of community.