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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 year’s 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 company’s 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 determine where each of your five leadership behaviors rank.
My Leadership Behaviors Rankings 1-5
Enable Others to Act- 1(highest ranking)
Encourage the Heart- 2
Model the Way- 3
Challenge the Process- 4
Inspire a Shared Vision- 5 (lowest lowest)
For further information on each of the five leadership behaviors and their two commitments, please refer to The Ten Commitments of Exemplary Leadership.
The Ten Commitments of Exemplary Leadership 
MODEL THE WAY • Clarify values by finding your voice and affirming shared values. • Set the example by aligning actions with shared values. 
INSPIRE A SHARED VISION • Envision the future by imagining exciting and ennobling possibilities. • Enlist others in a common vision by appealing to shared aspirations. 
CHALLENGE THE PROCESS • Search for opportunities by seizing the initiative and by looking outward for innovative ways to improve. • Experiment and take risks by consistently generating small wins and learning from experience. 
ENABLE OTHERS TO ACT • Foster collaboration by building trust and facilitating relationships. • Strengthen others by increasing self-determination and developing competence. 
ENCOURAGE THE HEART • Recognize contributions by showing appreciation for individual excellence. • Celebrate values and victories by creating a spirit of community.
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. 
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. 
Based on your review of the Employee Satisfaction Survey, identify the leadership behaviors the organization’s 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 organization’s leadership is currently successful in and explain how maintaining these areas can help in managing relationships between the leaders and their direct reports.
What to Submit
Submit your report as a 4-page Word document using 12-point Times New Roman font, double spacing, and one-inch margins. Sources should be cited according to APA style. 

Scenario
You have been appointed the director of strategic planning for Randstad N.V.- the international human resources and staffing services firm.
The vice president of strategy and operations (VP) has confided in you that strategic planning has been a challenge for the company over the past year; specifically, crafting new strategies and aligning them to the company’s mission and goals. You have now been tasked with creating a new strategic planning proposal to help the company explore at least one new growth opportunity to increase its revenue or market share in the industry.
Your proposal should present a detailed analysis of the company’s internal and external environments as well as specific actions the company can take over the next five years to achieve the targeted growth. Your proposal will be presented to various stakeholders at different levels in the organization, so you will need to adapt parts of your proposal to suit different needs. Additionally, you will need to send a shorter executive summary of your proposal to the leadership team.
Directions
Strategic Planning Proposal
Complete an analysis of Randstad and organize this information into a presentation. Use resources such as the company website, which will have pertinent information including its sustainability report, and other relevant sources to help complete this presentation. 
Part 1: Presentation
Your final presentation should include the following elements:
Perform an internal environment analysis of your company to understand the company’s current business environment and future goals. Present the results of your analysis.

Overview (slide 1): Provide a brief overview of the company’s products, services, and customer base.

Existing entities (slides 2–3): Identify at least two existing partnerships, mergers, or acquisitions. Explain how these entities contribute to the company’s revenue or market share.

Five-year goals (slide 4): Speculate on what the company wants to achieve in the next five years by considering their mission statement, values and goals, and relevant sections of their sustainability report.

Perform an external environment analysis of your company to identify the company’s competitive environment and find an opportunity the company can utilize to grow its revenue or market share in the industry. Present the results of your analysis.

Competitors (slide 5): Identify at least two of your company’s top competitors and explain how they compete with your company.

Competitive advantages (slides 6–11): Evaluate your company’s competitive advantages.

Summarize the unique skill sets, products, location, and values of your company.
Use Porter’s five forces to analyze your company’s competitiveness and growth potential in its industry. Assign a rating to your company for each of Porter’s five forces as very high (VH), high (H), low (L), or very low (VL). Justify your ratings.

Area of opportunity (slides 12–13): Identify one area of opportunity that will help your company increase its revenue or market share over the next five years. Explain how this opportunity can lead to an increase in revenue or market share.

Conduct a buy-build-ally analysis for your company and recommend actions your company can take to realize your identified opportunity within five years.

Implementation strategy (slides 14–17): Recommend an implementation strategy for your company.

Determine whether the company will need to buy, build, or ally with another company. Consider the skills, facilities, products, and services the company will need, to capitalize on the identified opportunity.
Use the speaker notes of your presentation to explain the strategy behind your buy, build, and ally recommendations.

Timeline (slides 18–19): Construct a timeline of what your company should achieve by the end of each year for the next five years.

(Note: Use both on-slide text and speaker notes to convey your information effectively. Precise and extensive speaker notes should be used, while addressing all of the rubric elements in the presentation. For example, you can use brief bulleted lists summarizing the highlights of your analysis on the slide and include more detailed explanations in your speaker notes.)
Part 2: Executive Summary
Create an executive summary of your strategic planning proposal. Remember to consider the audience and purpose of this report when drafting your summary.

Purpose: Briefly explain the purpose of the proposal.

Current business environment: Describe the internal and external business environments of the company.

Outline the various analyses you conducted and briefly summarize their importance.
Describe the opportunity for growth you identified and how it will impact the company’s revenue or market share.

Recommendations: Recommend actions, such as buy, build, and ally, that the company should take to utilize the identified opportunity and explain the reasons for your recommendations.
Stakeholder Presentation
Submit a PowerPoint presentation with on-slide text and detailed speaker notes. Your presentation should be 18 to 20 slides in length. Sources should be cited according to APA style.
Executive Summary
Submit a 2-page Word document with 12-point Times New Roman font, double spacing, and one-inch margins. Sources should be cited according to APA style.

Respond  2 questions in 300-400 words:  
Why is Anchor in trouble? What was Anchor’s business model?
What are Tether (USDT) and TerraUSD (UST)? How do they work, and what role do stablecoins play in the crypto ecosystem? What role did stablecoins play in the collapse of Celsius?
The Case Study is attached and make sure any AI is used.
Use the case as your absolute main resource, along with supplemental materials if provided. Your answers should be primarily based on the case. Quote the case precisely to demonstrate thorough reading and analysis. Be specific by referencing the page and section. This ensures you read the case carefully rather than relying on external information. Do not list the case or the supplemental material itself as a reference, as it will trigger the plagiarism tool. You can use external resources and reference them at the end, but your arguments should not be structured around them to stay on subject.
Example of Proper Quoting:
If answering question 1, you should reference specific sections of the case like this: “According to this section on Celsius’s business model, the main issue that led to its collapse was [specific detail](page number)”

Research Report
Purpose:
The purpose of this assignment is to build research skills introduced in the course through application of the skills to a significant real world social change issue. You will also build writing and public presentation skills.
Assignment:
For this assignment, you will carry out strategic research or policy research on a social change topic that is of interest to you, using methods and/or databases introduced in the class. 
Assignment Elements:

Topic statement:
Brief statement of topic, planned scope of research, data sources and methods

Written Report:
Written report of research and findings. Your analysis should be at 1500-2000 words in length. Typed, double-spaced, 12-point font, with 1” margins. .pdf, .docx, or .rtf file format. If your project contains significant non-writing elements such as mapping, numerical tabulations or mathematical calculations, consult with me to see whether the written length can be decreased accordingly.
Selection of Topic:
The topic is up to you. You can identify and research a social change issue of your choosing. You can choose between two general options of types of research as follows. 
OPTION A: STRATEGIC RESEARCH
Strategic research is here defined according to Si Kahn: “getting the information necessary to make good decisions about strategy and tactics” in a campaign for social change.
Strategic Research examples:
-Work on segments of a corporate campaign research profile of the kind we did for TriMas/Monogram Aerospace in week 6 & 7
-Draw up a power map for a local social change issue
-Map a workplace or employer
-Examine health and safety violations by a major employer or industry
-Examine political contributions to a political candidate or issue
-Examine political contributions by a particular company or industry
-Examine property holdings of a major landlord
If you choose the strategic research option, you can choose your own subject, or one of the below topics that I have identified based on research needs of community partners, some of whom have spoken as guest lecturers in our class.
Filipino Migrant Center
Investigating Wage Theft Violations by caregiving agencies across the South Bay (Long Beach, Carson, Torrance, San Pedro, etc.)
California Faculty Association
Investigating financial aspects of the CSU such as: historical trends in faculty and administration pay and tuition; campus debt; contracts for food service and construction
Mask off Maersk
Investigating shipping company Maersk’s role in weapons transport to Israel.
OPTION B: POLICY RESEARCH
Policy research is a systematic inquiry into the existing or potential impacts of public policy options such as laws and regulations. If you choose this option, you will gather and assess existing research and arguments regarding policy solutions for a particular social issue.
Policy Research examples:
-Evaluate competing arguments as to the impacts of an affordable housing policy 
-Evaluate competing arguments as to the impacts of an increase in the minimum wage
-Evaluate competing arguments about policy on workplace heat conditions

I need this PowerPoint done by 2  ET TOMORROW!!!! If you can’t do it I’ll find somebody else. I NEED THIS DONE BY 10 AM ET TOMORROW ASAP!!! Directions AND Attachments for the paper and template are in the attachment!!!

 Review the appropriate guidelines for your selected company:

For-Profit Startup Company Guidelines. [DOCX]Download For-Profit Startup Company Guidelines. [DOCX]
For this week’s discussion, respond to the following:
Start with a brief overview of your business: company name and what you are selling (a maximum of 3 sentences).
How does your business work? Describe the day-to-day flow of activities necessary to deliver your product or service to customers. Wherever applicable, identify costs. Be sure to address the following, as applicable to your chosen business in the response, using headings:

Facilities.

Describe the facility, including its location.
Specify whether it is rented or owned; include any associated costs.
Estimate the cost of utilities, such as water/sewer, gas, electricity, and trash removal.

Production Process/Description of business operations.

Describe the production process (how you will produce the product) or describe how your business will operate if this is a retail or service company.
Identify the equipment, furniture, vehicles, etc. you will use and associated costs.
Explain your approach to quality control.
Explain your approach to inventory, as applicable.

Personnel Needs

Specify the number of employees you plan to have, including managers.
Identify their roles, wages, and/or salary.

 
Overview
In this assignment, you will focus on creating the marketing plan for your business. Your chosen company will operate within a 100-mile radius of your home address. Your goal is to reach $1 million in sales by the end of the second year.
Be sure to follow the guidelines below.

For-Profit Startup Company Guidelines. [DOCX]Download For-Profit Startup Company Guidelines. [DOCX]

Use the template below to complete this assignment:

Assignment 2 – Marketing Plan Template. [DOCX]Download Assignment 2 – Marketing Plan Template. [DOCX]

Reminders
You are not starting this assignment from scratch. You have already worked on these sections of your business plan in the weekly discussions:
Target Market (Week 3 discussion).
Marketing Vehicles – included on assignment template.
You will revise the target market description and marketing vehicles based on the feedback you received in the discussion thread and any changes you want to make to your business plan.
Marketing Plan
In MS Word, write the 3–5 page marketing plan and sales strategy section of your business plan, in which you:
Complete the company’s target market description you developed in the Week 3 Discussion based on the instructor’s feedback.

Be sure to include demographic, geographic, lifestyle, psychographic, purchasing patterns, and buying sensitivities in the target market description.

Assess the company’s top 3 competitors.

The assessment needs to include a brief description of the exact company and particular product or service you are competing against. For example, Coca-Cola offers a portfolio of products, such as water, fruit juice, and cola. Are you competing against Coca-Cola’s fruit juice product? Or its cola product?

Develop a plan that includes how you compare your business to your competitors currently and how you will differentiate yourself from the competition in the future.

How will you stand out and why?

Outline the company’s value proposition.

The value proposition tells your customers why they want to do business with you.

Detail the marketing vehicles you will use to build your chosen company’s brand.

Provide a rationale for selecting the vehicles and why you believe they will be effective in promoting your business.
Insert the final version of the marketing vehicles table adjusted per the feedback received from the Week 4 Discussion.

 
Research paper: Required to conduct research and write a paper suitable for publication in an academic business journal. The paper should be between 12-16 pages double spaced with full citations. The style should be appropriate for submission to a finance, management, or other business journal. Be brief and concise in the paper since length does not equate to a higher grade. Content matters. The paper should focus on some aspect of interest to individual investors. Attach a WORD or PDF copy of the finished paper.
Research Topic: Impact Investing and Social Responsibility

 
Research paper: Required to conduct research and write a paper suitable for publication in an academic business journal. The paper should be between 12-16 pages double spaced with full citations. The style should be appropriate for submission to a finance, management, or other business journal. Be brief and concise in the paper since length does not equate to a higher grade. Content matters. The paper should focus on some aspect of interest to individual investors. Attach a WORD or PDF copy of the finished paper.
Research Topic: Impact Investing and Social Responsibility

Instructions are attached. Please make sure you use your own words, the work will be checked to see if there’s any AI work.