Overview For this assignment, you will be taking a more thorough look into your leadership self-assessment results that you reflected on in Module One. This assignment will help in the creation of your personal development plan, which will be submitted in Module Six.

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 years employee engagement survey results for the organization show that some leadership practices were 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 companys 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 now you will be taking a closer look at these results to produce a self-assessment report. You plan on exploring how this self-assessment would make a beneficial contribution to a personal development plan and adaptive leadership toolkit, which will help to resolve the leadership challenges the organization is currently facing.

Prompt For this assignment, refer to your results from your self-assessment and use the LPI Percentile Ranking Sheet to determine where each of your five leadership behaviors rank.

Leadership Behaviors

Model the Way Inspire a Shared Vision Challenge the Process Enable Others to Act Encourage the Heart For further information on each leadership behavior, please refer to The Ten Commitments of Exemplary Leadership.

Self-assessment: In this part of your report, you will use the results from your self-assessment to identify leadership behaviors where you ranked highest and where you ranked lowest, and begin thinking about how this information impacts your ability to lead. This work will help to inform your personal development plan, which you will create in Module Six.

Identify the leadership behavior in which you ranked lowest and define what this behavior means to you. For the leadership behavior in which you ranked lowest, describe the importance of developing this area to improve skills related to leading others. Identify the leadership behavior in which you ranked highest and define what this behavior means to you. For the leadership behavior in which you ranked highest, describe how this area helps support skills related to being an effective leader. Adaptive leadership toolkit: In this part of your report, you will use your findings from the Employee Satisfaction Survey and the leadership behaviors you reviewed in the self-assessment to identify areas of leadership the organization should focus on developing. This work will help to inform the adaptive leadership toolkit that you will develop in Module Seven.

Based on your review of the Employee Satisfaction Survey, identify the leadership behaviors the organizations leadership should focus on improving and explain how developing these areas will address the business problems the organization currently faces.

Based on your review of the Employee Satisfaction Survey, identify the leadership behaviors the organizations leadership is currently successful in and explain how maintaining these areas can help in managing relationships between the leaders and their direct reports.

MODEL THE WAY INSPIRE A SHARED CHALLENGE THE PROCESS ENABLE OTHERS TO ACT ENCOURAGE THE HEART VISION 1. 8 2.6 3. 8 4. 10 5._10 6 6. 9 7. __6 8. 2 9.__10 10.8 11. 10 12. 5 13. 8 14._10 15._10 16. 6 17.__7_ 18. 9 19.__10 20.9 21. 8 22.9 23. 10 24. 10 25._10_ 26._10_ 27._8 28. 2 29.9 30._10_ 51 41 39 59 TOTAL 57 TOTAL TOTAL TOTAL TOTAL EMPLOYEE SATISFACTION SURVEY RESULTS ERCENT FAVORABLE RESULTS SURVEY QUESTIONS FOCUS AREA Four Years Ago Two Years Ago 89 70 Constantly strives to provide value to our clients and customers CLIENT/CUSTOMER My company cares about its employees COMPANY & STRATEGY My company cares about its customers COMPANY & STRATEGY I believe the company mission and vision drive the decisions that are made COMPANY & STRATEGY My job makes good use of my skills and abilities JOB SATISFACTION I am very satisfied with my job JOB SATISFACTION My supervisor shows appreciation for the work that I do JOB SATISFACTION My pay is competitive with others places that I could work JOB SATISFACTION I am proud to be a part of this company JOB SATISFACTION I am proud to tell my friends and family that I work here I JOB SATISFACTION Recognizes employees based on merit, i.e., accomplishments, successes. RECOGNITION & PRAISE I feel encouraged to come up with new and better ways of doing things RECOGNITION & PRAISE My work gives me a sense of personal accomplishment RECOGNITION & PRAISE When people work extra hard to meet our goals they are rewarded accordingly REWARD & RECOGNITION My Supervisor takes the time to praise those who do an excellent job REWARD & RECOGNITION I have received the training I need to perform my job responsibilities TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT My Supervisor talks with me to help me determine my training and development goals TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT Maintains working conditions that are safe WORKING CONDITIONS Maintains working conditions that are clean and orderly WORKING CONDITIONS Respects the dignity and diversity of all employees WORKING CONDITIONS Committed to helping employees fulfill their family and other responsibilities WORKING CONDITIONS Provides leadership who act in just and ethical ways WORKING CONDITIONS Provides employees with a sense of fulfillment and purpose in their jobs WORKING CONDITIONS Provides employees with a sense of security in their jobs WORKING CONDITIONS Provides employees with fair compensation WORKING CONDITIONS Promotes an environment in which employees feel free to make suggestions and WORKING CONDITIONS Provides an inclusive environment where each employee is considered as an individual WORKING CONDITIONS I have the tools and resources to do my job well WORKING CONDITIONS In my job I have clearly defined quality goals WORKING CONDITIONS When I am having difficulty my Supervisor is there to support me so I do not feel abandoned WORKING CONDITIONS My Supervisor gives me useful information on how I can improve my job performance WORKING CONDITIONS My Supervisor lets me know where I stand and what is expected of me WORKING CONDITIONS I trust my supervisor WORKING CONDITIONS Current Year 90 60 75 60 43 35 38 75 70 80 46 35 38 31 35 66 25 78 80 75 76 35 77 43 75 37 36 76 80 35 38 36 24 -345-68529523-888- 91 75 76 71 59 48 55 76 79 80 52 43 44 40 44 68 33 80 82 75 68 53 80 47 75 44 41 76 77 44 44 42 39 73 45 80 44 76 41 40 77 80 38 41 39 33