2. An auto dealer has hired you to help improve the performance of its sales and service staff. Your first task is to conduct a needs analysis for the organization. Describe what you will do. Then, provide examples of possible training and development activities that could be used to influence the knowledge behavior, and attitudes of the staff. For an auto dealer I would do a short and long-term training and development needs according to the business strategy, company culture, and expected changes
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current competencies like communicating and leading teams and competencies require further development like setting goals; the next two are Communication Styles Survey and Situational Leadership Style Questionnaire to find out strong skills like driver style and delegating style, and weak style like amiable style and coaching style. Then, related theories and concepts will be applied and interpreted to analyse the examined current competencies and skills and how to develop them further based on academic
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such as R&D and marketing will be personalized and specialized to meet the need of global consumers. ➢ Employees: Leaders need to have a better understanding on how to manage and mitigate generational and gender differences through communication, leadership and HRM ➢ Innovation: The speed and quality of business model modification through new technology will affect a company’s future competitiveness. ➢ CSR: Commitment to sustainability will improve corporation’s public image, but may not boost sales
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performance management which are, planning, coaching, providing feedback and the performance review. Best Practiced Trends in Performance Management Today’s world is continually changing and expectations are on the rise. Managing employee performance is essential in helping companies meet these expectations. Many companies have adopted the performance management process in order to monitor and improve performance within the workplace. The goal of performance management is to guarantee
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Erica Conrad MGT 3250 Karen Noble-Patrick November 23, 2012 Leadership Issues for Women Women have made tremendous strides in the work world during recent years. Her initial work world centered around the family home. She was the wife, homemaker, mother, and all around caregiver for anyone who took refuge in her home. If the spouse’s work was done on the home land, such as farming, she would also be his partner working along aside him. Women came to the forefront of the work force during
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Joyce R. Clifford’s praise of the book “Leadership is an Art” is the most apt review I have read. She articulates, “In today’s financially driven business environment, Max De Pree helps readers to pause, take a deep breath, and examine their own personal ‘art of leadership.’ This is an extraordinary book that avoids quick management theory and brings the reader back to the reality that human values form the basis for extraordinary leadership” (De Pree, n.pag.). This is clear throughout the book
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Plagiarism and Academic Integrity on the University website at www.students.utas.edu.au/plagiarism. Critical reflection on my coaching experience: An ongoing journey Coaching is a relatively new professional field that has increased in popularity during the past decade (Tompson et al, 2008). Despite several different definitions of coaching and ways to understand or categorize coaching practice, all coaching’s approaches have a common denominator: the goal of achieving changes in the client. Depending on
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Management and leadership while integrated had yet to separate entities within themselves that can shape or tell a lot about a person. With the ideas presented throughout these studies I have begun to see myself with a different perspective. With the broader ideas introduced to me I believe that my future endeavors will increase my ability in both management and leadership. My leadership style is very directive or dictatorship. I see task and only task. People emotional states are not overwhelming
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Having a battalion staff position in the JROTC program requires one to have leadership. Leadership is a very broad topic, and has many different actions and characteristics that can help define a leader. As a leader one has to be able to use not just one, but multiple types of leadership styles, to effectively lead their group of subordinates towards completing a common goal. A leader is required to have many different qualities those include adaptability, intelligence, sociability, integrity, self-confidence
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Leadership Development Traditionally, leadership development has focused on developing the leadership abilities and attitudes of individuals. Just as people are not all born with the ability or desire to play football (soccer) like Zinedine Zidane or sing like Luciano Pavarotti, people are not all born with the ability to lead. Different personal traits and characteristics can help or hinder a person's leadership effectiveness[1] and require formalized programs for developing leadership competencies
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