Following your promotion to the Vice President of Human Resource Development for
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Question
Following your promotion to the Vice President of Human Resource Development for your Global organization, you have been asked to develop a leadership development program for the entire organization. You have plants on four different continents and 11 different countries. You must address time, cultural, ethnic, and language barriers. You may assume any other information not provided.
In a 12 - 15 slide (excluding the cover slide and the reference slide) PowerPoint presentation provide your program and evaluation techniques. Make sure to use the speaker's note section to fully explain your PPT bullet points.
Explanation / Answer
Leadership means guiding, influencing, and motivating a group to achieve a common goal. It is the responsibility of the leader to make the group more cohesive and the group members feel inspired and motivated to accomplish the common goals. Effective leadership makes the group more goal oriented, facilitates goal settings and finally enables it to achieve its goals.An effective leader encourages interaction among the group members and promotes cooperation and teamwork between the members. During discussions, a leader shows the member the right direction, encourages all the members to interact, manage any conflicts that arises between the members and exercise high influence to enable the group to take the right decision. Thus he acts like a captain of the ship who steers the ship through troubled water.
An effective leader should have following qualities and skills
1.Inspirational skills- Guiding, motivating, and inspiring individuals and group to achieve their personal, professional, group, and organizational goals.
2.Influence- Exercising influence and persuasion over other to take the direct actions.
3.Developing others- Sensing other’s developing needs, improving their abilities, helping them in goal setting through guidance and feedback.
4.Change catalyst- Initiating and managing change
5.Conflict management- Listening openly , talking meaningful and resolving disagreements.
6.Building bonds- maintaining and returning relationships.
7.Teamwork and cooperation- Working with others toward common goals.
Leading and managing objectives