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Scenario
As a director of leadership and learning, you collaborate with many
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Scenario
As a director of leadership and learning, you collaborate with many
different employees throughout the prosthetics manufacturing
organization you work for. You were recently contacted by Eduardo, who
was promoted from an individual contributor to a manager four months
ago. Eduardo is seeking your advice on developing his leadership style
after receiving his first quarterly review from his supervisor.
The following are the key takeaways from your conversation with Eduardo:
“I’ve been told that I am extremely intelligent and typically get
to solutions before others. However, this can lead me toward moving too
quickly to implementing a solution when the organization is two steps
behind. I was cautioned that this can create a disconnect with my team.
I’m told to focus on working alongside my team to better empower them.
However, I get frustrated with the lack of responsiveness from the
organization and my team. My supervisor says this can create insecurity
and frustration, with people feeling they cannot live up to my
expectations.”
After your meeting with Eduardo, you follow up with his supervisor to gain additional insight. This was their feedback:
“Eduardo does not leverage his team to create the desired vision.
Because he is intelligent and gets to answers faster than most, he
loses patience and decides to do all the work himself. By doing so, he
misses out on the input of others and fails to garner support for the
vision. When he becomes quickly entrenched in his position, he often
ignores valid input and alternative points of view.”
“Eduardo thinks he knows best and hence may not always listen to
others. Nor does he inspire confidence in his team. As a result,
his ‘professional arrogance’ creates more of a dictatorial leadership
style, which in turn produces adversarial relationships internally
(Eduardo versus everyone). I am concerned that over time this outcome
will also spread to external partners. In the end, we will continue to
lose talent, which will eventually impact business performance.”
Since the vice president of leadership and learning has asked you to
create an adaptive leadership toolkit, these conversations are extremely
valuable because they provide specific insight into areas of leadership
that can be improved across the organization. Some of the strategies
that you recommend for Eduardo’s situation can be used to help inform
the improvement of leadership skills throughout the prosthetics
manufacturing organization.
Prompt
Given the case as described, provide an analysis of Eduardo’s
situation as it currently exists and recommend steps he can take to help
transform his leadership style.
Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:
Define the following leadership skills and explain why Eduardo should focus on developing each of these:Strategic thinking
Emotional intelligence
Communication skills
Describe two actionable steps Eduardo should take towards developing these leadership skills and explain how each step might help improve his situation.
Explain how Eduardo can utilize the flywheel effect
to transform his leadership style and identify the tasks he should
perform to promote gradual improvement that provides tangible evidence
his strategy is yielding results. Support your response.
What to Submit
Submit a Word document using double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman
font, and one-inch margins. This assignment must be 2 to 4 pages in
length and include references cited in APA format. Consult the Shapiro Library APA Style Guide for more information on citations.
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