...organization provides information to the Secretary of Defense, Congress, and the public. I am an employee in the Learning Office so that is my reason for selecting this organization for my project. In accordance with Title 5 410.201, federal agencies are required to develop training plans and programs that support a workforce capable of achieving an agency’s mission and performance goals. DoD OIG’s strategic plan goal 3.l.2 is to identify core skill requirements for each position and identify/develop training to provide opportunities for staff to attain necessary core skill. An enterprise-wide competency and training needs analysis questionnaire will assist the organization in meeting the needs of both Title 5 401.201 and strategic plan goal 3.1.2. The development of a core competency model will provide an integrated approach for supporting the mission, goals, and strategies of the organization. A core competency model will assist with establishing succession management, aligning training and development to skill gaps, and planning for future workforce needs. The identified core and technical competency models will be used to leverage the organization’s human capital needs by defining consistent position descriptions, selecting effective training and development offerings, and proper planning for future training needs. The Training Needs Analysis (TNA) results will identify knowledge, skills and abilities unique to DoD OIG and identify if there are any gaps that impact performance...
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... |Professional Success | | | | | . All rights reserved. Course Description This general education course is designed to introduce the intentional learner to communication, collaboration, information utilization, critical thinking, problem solving, and professional competence and values. The course uses an interdisciplinary approach for the learner to develop personal academic strategies in order to reach desired goals and achieve academic success. Policies Faculty and students/learners will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view this document. Instructor policies: This document is posted in the Course Materials forum. University policies are subject to change. Be sure to read the policies at the beginning of each class. Policies may be slightly different depending on the modality in which you attend class. If you have recently changed modalities, read...
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...understanding of individual (employee) differences and how these differences affect the contribution of the individual on the business. Additionally this paper considers how organizations may exploit this knowledge and gives consideration to the most significant barrier to such exploitation. 2. Organizational Effectiveness All organizations strive to be effective and much effort is expended in achieving and measuring organization effectiveness. Whilst the definition of ‘organization’ does not necessarily have to relate to a business or company in every instance, for the purpose of this paper the term will relate to a ‘business organization’ and therefore organizational effectiveness will relate to achievement of organizational goals or business objectives. “From the perspective of an employee, the extent to which an organization can provide satisfaction of the needs associated with the following range of variables is a major consideration in judging the effectiveness of the organization” (Bartram, Robertson and Callinan, 2002, p. 2): • money and physical resources • power, authority and control • status, prestige and self-esteem • Security support and protection • order and stability • meaning, relevance and purpose All of the above variables are personal to an...
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...Week1. Academic Success. Aug 21 - Aug 27Week1 Academic Success Aug 21 - Aug 27 7.5 / 7.5 points Objectives/Competencies 1.1Identify university resources required for student success. 1.2Develop educational and professional goals. 1.3Recognize the importance of personal responsibility. 1.4Demonstrate the key elements of the writing process. Learning Activities Required Reading Becoming a Master Student, Introduction Reading Becoming a Master Student, Ch. 2 Reading Becoming a Master Student, Ch. 10 Reading Becoming a Master Student, Ch. 11 Reading Week One Electronic Reserve Readings Recommended Video Center for Writing Excellence (CWE) video Video Center for Math Excellence (CME) video Interactive/Tutorial University Library Interactive/Tutorial Financial Options Interactive/Tutorial The Writing Process Audio Audio: Goal Setting and Time Management Exploration Time Management and Goals Website Ethical Lens Inventory Assignments ASSIGNMENT STATUS FRIENDLY NAME TITLE DUE DATE POINTS UNREAD COMMENTS Participation Week One Participation Graded 4.5/4.5 7 Practice/Simulation/Homework/Game Ethical Lens Inventory submission Graded 3/3 Instructor Feedback Great discussion about goals last week. Students often cite procrastination as an obstacle to their productivity in achieving their goals. If you struggle with procrastination, please review pp. 50, 76, and 77 in your textbook Becoming a Master Student and think about implementing...
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...this essay is to illustrate the importance of the idea of competency as well as seeks to outline its application to staff undertaking international assignments. Lucia & Lepsinger (1999) define competency as “a cluster of related knowledge, skills, and attitudes that affects a major part of one’s job (a role or responsibility), that correlates with performance on the job, that can be measured against well-accepted standards, and that can be improved via training and development.” People or the organization should possess the core competencies to excel in work’s performance and hence be improved in the future to achieve effectiveness in work and organization’s goal (Ibid). Why have the idea of competency become so important? Organizations today identified the key to business success through strategic human resource management (SHRM) (Compton 2009). To achieve SHRM, the strategic plans have to be pro-active and be open to changes in the organization’s external environment such as its competitors and globalization (Ibid). Having a deeper understanding about competencies is critical, as it will allow the organization to focus on achieving organizational goals and responding to the external environment (Lucia & Lepsinger 1999). The Harvard Analytical framework for HRM Figure 1. (Source: Beer et al. 1985) The Harvard analytical framework for HRM in Figure 1 above consists of five main components, which are situational factors, stakeholder...
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...Abstract As president of Great Northern American, Joe Salatino is a successful businessperson of a 35 year-old company by the amount paid to his employees. Around the country, his organization deals with more than 60,000 businesses, and creates more than 20 million a year in office supplies, arts and crafts, and computer supplies. Based on telemarketing of his organization, Mr. Salatino believes that spending money on commissions and bonuses is necessary to motivate employees for performing a task efficiently. Together with special money paid to his employees, Mr. Salatino also concern about capabilities of them. Introduction Joe Salatino, President of Great North American, has fully brought the organization to success. The organization creates its revenue using telemarketing, which requires high performance salespeople. Consequently, when hiring telemarketing salespeople, he has to look for some specific skills that can be applied to a job. He also must understand how people perceive and attribute about others with his employees. In addition, to ensure that he hires the most successful salespeople, the value of self-efficacy is needed to establish good relationship with customers. 1.Discuss how Joe could address the importance of understanding how people form perceptions and make attributions about others with his employees. As a President of Great Northern American, Joe Salatino is responsible for building up, motivating, and manipulating the company’s sale team...
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...ESCI Assessment Report Regina M. Turner The Chicago School of Professional Psychology Organizational Leadership IO 525 Professor Dionne Mahaffey November 22, 2015 Abstract The Emotional and Social Competency Inventory (ESCI) Assessment Test was created to help to recognize one’s own feeling and others to help to motivate ourselves with managing emotions. It also helps to identify behaviors that we may display in challenging and difficult situations (Boyatzis, 2007). Also known as Emotional Intelligence (EI), the EI measures the behaviors that matters to those who desire to be effective leaders and to the relationships of others who come in contact with them. The ESCI can also be a tool for college and post-graduate students to be successful as a leader by assisting to help to work out what they may want from life, what they want from life, learn with others in groups and also help to draw on their own resources (Boyatzis, 2007). This assessment has also been used for the building up of leaders in the workplace with the development of programs that are designed specifically to “1) educate people about the relevance of emotional intelligence in the workplace, 2) assess their relative strengths and weaknesses, and 3) provide a framework to develop and enhance their ability to interact with others with greater emotional intelligence (Sala, 2005, pp. 1)”. Key words: Emotional Intelligence, behaviors, leadership development ECPI Assessment Report Being a leader...
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...Bontempo, C. A. (2008). Common competencies for all healthcare managers: the healthcare leadership alliance model. Journal of Healthcare Management, 53(6), 360. Biographical Sketch of Authors Author Mary E. Stefl, Ph.d received her B.A at Wittenberg University, then proceeded to the University of Cincinnati to complete her M.A and Ph. D. Currently, Stefl teaches quality control management, managerial empidemiology and leadership devlopement at Trinity University. Other than her academic achievements, Stefl also enhances her teaching with her experience as former chair of Accrediting Commission on Education for Health Services Administration (ACEHSA) and former chair member of the Board of Directors of the...
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...Chapter 8 Strategic Planning and Ten–Ten Planning To be strategic is to have plans of action that provide directions for operating in an uncertain world. In this section, our focus is on developing strategic plans to compete in a world characterized by monopolistic competition. Notice that the emphasis is on plans of action and not on a single plan. There is no single plan or single planning approach that can deal with the complexity of contemporary markets. What is needed is a continuous process for churning out new plans, for differentiated products and services, in order to compete in a dynamic environment. This chapter presents a brief overview of the various approaches to strategic planning and provides an overview of the planning literature. There is a lot of material to slog through, but each approach to planning has something to offer. This overview will set the stage for presenting the Ten–Ten planning process in the next chapter. The next chapter will integrate the various planning approaches and present a simplified, yet robust approach to planning called the Ten–Ten planning process. The key benefit of the Ten–Ten planning process is that it can be used for developing business plans in a very short time span. 8.1 Planning Concepts There are two generic planning strategies that a business can pursue.Michael Porter originally identified three generic strategies. He noted that a business can also focus on a market that is not very competitive. Most people consider...
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...http://www.crgleader.com 2 of 16 Online Leadership Skills Inventory - Self (LSI-S) © 1990-2011 Consulting Resource Group Professional Development and Planning Section Why Become a Transforming Leader? Skilled Leaders are critical to the success level of any venture, both profit and non-profit. This was validated in the research Jim Collins and his team conducted for his book, Good to Great. They confirmed that the most successful organizations had skilled Transforming Leaders at the helm. (Jim Collins called them Level 5 Leaders.) Our research, however, has shown that fewer than 1 in 10 professionals (as observed in video-taped assessment sessions) have competency in the whole range of skills to Level 4 competency (scores of 7 to 8). And even fewer individuals have the abilities—Level 5 competency, scores of 9 to 10—to teach others the skills outlined in the Leadership Skills Inventory. This confirms why there is such a Leadership vacuum globally in organizations, from government to business; they simply do not have the Transformational Leadership Skills to achieve success. Fortunately, the old adage leaders are born not developed is not true. Effective leadership behaviors can be observed,...
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...team. Perception is a declaration of the way individuals sift, arrange and interpret sensory information and attribution is an explanation of how individuals respond to the actions of others (Hellriegel & Solcum, 2011). Mr. Salatino needs to demonstrate how perceptions are influenced in relations to his business. This would require him developing a model for his sales team to use as selective screening when seeking potential customers. Within the model he should focus on the external factors that relate to his organizations goals. These factors consist of as size, intensity, contrast, motion, repetition and novelty and familiarity. Then, internal factors should be infused into the equation, these factors include personality, learning, motivation. Combined, both internal and external factors create importance of perception into employees. Mr. Salatino is responsible as an effective leader to ensure they have an accurate perception of the organizational goals so that his sales team will be able to execute effective decisions in relation to customer sales (Duggan). In an effort to do so, he could address the importance of understanding how people form perceptions and make attribution through observing his employees behaviors, as well as the environmental conditions that affect their behaviors. As an effective leader, he would attempt to sway external events in order to pilot employee behaviors (Hellriegel & Slocum). Through implementation of weekly mandatory workshops with his...
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...6.1 Study the “A Day in the Life of Yolanda Valdez” case (p. 542), and answer the three accompanying questions. 1. Team competency was one that was illustrated. Team competency includes the knowledge, skills, and ability to develop, support, and lead groups to achieve goals. Clearly, Yolanda Valdez and her team where ultimately working as a team and had goals in mind to accomplish. From the everyday operations to plans on expanding the company. I felt that the organization worked together with their knowledge and skills to get the ultimate job done. Another competency used was communication competency. Communication competency includes the knowledge, skills, and abilities to use all the models of transmitting, understand, and receiving ideas, thoughts, and feelings- verbal, listening, non-verbal, and written- for accurately transferring and exchanging information Yolanda and her team uses different forms of communication throughout their daily activities whether its verbal with meetings they have or written in the form of questionnaires they use for feedback. All the forms are necessary for ClearVision in order for them to properly keep communication going. The change competency was also present. Change com potency includes the knowledge, skills, and abilities to recognize and implement needed adaptations or entirely new transformations in the people, tasks, strategies, structures, or technologies. As the organization of ClearVision grows and expands Yolanda and the rest of...
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...Management 449 Final “On the night of the exam, I suggest that you first read the entire exam. The point value will give you an idea how long and elaborate an answer ought to be. A 50 percent question is certainly more involved than a ten percent question. The following are potential questions for the midterm examination questions. Where indicated, LA = a long answer question and SA = a short answer question. 1. The schematic or flowchart presented in slide 25 of the Hunger and Wheelen PowerPoint’s represents a step-by-step procedure for the Strategic Management Process. Please develop an essay that explains the overall process and the steps found in this schematic. In your essay explain the process – give an overview and its purpose. Then, explain the major steps within the process and within each step explain the analysis and reasoning in back of the analysis. Also, don’t forget the interrelatedness of the steps within the overall process. Examples, where appropriate, will enhance your essay. The purpose of this question is to test your understanding of strategy development and the events leading to it - the big picture, the major pieces, analysis within the major pieces (steps), the connectivity between the major pieces, and the potential iterations. Don’t forget to close the “loop” – where implementation and evaluation and controls fit into the process and include why they are important. (LA) 2. What factor determines the quality of the strategic management effort and...
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...labeled "External Origin," since you have no real control over the environment that provides these elements. The left column, which houses the strengths and opportunities categories, is known as the "Helpful" column, as these benefit your initiative. The right column, which contains the weaknesses and threats categories, is called "Harmful," since these can work against your objective. To obtain the most desirable results from a SWOT analysis, fill out each of your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats in the most honest, objective way possible. For instance, if you're writing about your company include details about your employees as well as yourself. If this SWOT analysis regards your own personal goals, list the ways your skills can contribute to your goal in the "Strengths" section, but don't forget to cite any necessary improvements or skill deficiencies in the "Weaknesses" category. Outlining Strengths in the SWOT Matrix Mindtools.com recommends beginning with the strengths you or your company possess. Begin making a list of any advantages your company provides over competitors as well as positive personality characteristics you maintain. Anything considered to add to your bottom line or your unique selling proposition (USP) should be categorized under strengths. Outlining Weaknesses in the SWOT Matrix Defining your weaknesses can show you where you need to...
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...for diverse patient populations (Betancourt et al., 2003). In the case study: Diversity Conflicts in the NICU the manager has identified practices in the NICU that are not representative of a culturally competent organization. While reflecting on the diverse population that her staff comprises of the manager debates changing her hiring practices to avoid the amount of growing conflicts. Gordon (2013) discusses how health care organizations have an obligation to develop policies and practices that will assist in recruiting, retaining, and managing the various cultures represented in the workforce to offer both culturally appropriate care and improved access to care. The Commonwealth Fund indicates five goals to eliminate barriers between health care providers and patients. These goals include: 1.) “Understand that patients and health care providers...
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