Category: Leadership

Prior to beginning work on this assignment, read Chapter 15 by Paese (2010) in the Handbook of Workplace Assessment text and Chapter 17 by Moye et al. (2017) in The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of the Psychology of Recruitment, Selection and Employee Retention text.
In the United States assessment processes are often used to determine which individuals have the capability to grow into new, more challenging leadership positions. In this assignment you will outline an approach for ensuring that succession planning makes appropriate use of assessment.
In a paper of at least 1,000 words (exclusive of title, abstract, and reference pages) and citing at least two scholarly resources,
Identify the challenges inherent in determining who should be promoted within an organization.
What factors need to be considered in identifying potential candidates for leadership positions?
Discuss Paese’s (2010) six fundamentals of using assessment for growth-focused succession planning and the critical aspects of each fundamental.
Identify the different types of assessments that may be appropriate for use in succession planning and briefly describe their purpose.
Propose a set of “best practices” for using assessment for succession planning, including quality considerations for assessment processes.

The Using Assessment for Leadership Succession Planning paper
must be at least 1,000 words in length (not including abstract, title and reference pages) and formatted according to APA StyleLinks to an external site. as outlined in the Writing Center’s APA Formatting for Microsoft Word resource.Links to an external site.
must include a separate title page with the following in title case:
title of paper in bold font
Space should appear between the title and the rest of the information on the title page.
student’s name
name of institution (The University of Arizona Global Campus)
course name and number
instructor’s name
due date
must utilize academic voice.
See the Academic VoiceLinks to an external site. resource for additional guidance.
Refer to the Making Your Writing FlowLinks to an external site. resource for support in composing your paper.
must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph.
Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.
For assistance on writing Introductions & ConclusionsLinks to an external site. and Writing a Thesis StatementLinks to an external site., refer to the Writing Center resources.
must use at least two scholarly sources.
The Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed, and Other Credible SourcesLinks to an external site. table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source.
To assist you in completing the research required for this assignment, view this Quick and Easy Library ResearchLinks to an external site. tutorial, which introduces the University of Arizona Global Campus Library and the research process, and provides some library search tips.
must document any information used from sources in APA Style as outlined in the Writing Center’s APA: Citing Within Your Paper guide.Links to an external site.
must include separate abstract and reference pages that are formatted according to APA Style as outlined in the Writing Center.
See the Writing an AbstractLinks to an external site. and APA: Formatting Your References ListLinks to an external site. resources in the Writing Center for specifications.

Please see attached instructions.
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Overview:
As you wrote your course paper demonstrating mastery of leadership scholarship through program outcome mastery, you may have noticed gaps in your application of leadership competencies, skills, and behaviors. For example, you might have developed a strong understanding of what the literature says is needed to implement planned change, but maybe you have never actually been part of a planned change project. Therefore, you might determine that you have an experiential gap in implementing planned change. Or, perhaps you have a difficult time determining what is the best diagnostic method to use when determining what changes to implement. In that case, you might judge that you have an implementation gap in diagnosing planned change.
As Marshall Goldsmith told me, if you did not notice any opportunities for improvement, you might start with a gap in humility.
Post & Engage
– Describe three to five gaps or opportunities for improvement in your application of leadership competencies, skills, and behaviors.
(Please refer to Attachment 1 for the demonstrating mastery paper referenced in the overview. Attached 2 is a list of program outcomes, and Attachment 3 is the instructions for the original demonstrating mastery paper)

What types of things will motivate you in your career? Name at least five things. Where would these fit on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and Herzberg’s two-factor theory?
Exercise Instructions: You are required to submit a 2-Page (Title Page and Content Page), APA formatted paper with substantial content. Substantial content requires staying on topic and fully addresses the assignment in a clear, concise, and meaningful manner. The deliverable length of your posting responses must be at least 2-pages, (Title Page and Content Page) APA format.
Exercises must be the students original thoughts based on the topics from the “Open Educational Resource” (OER) Course Textbook and/or other referenced sources. Direct quotes from references must be less than 20 words. Please review for sentence structure, grammar and punctuation errors. Plagiarized submissions may result in a “0” for the submission.
All assignment(s) derive from the OER Textbook. For academic purposes, at least 1 APA formatted reference is required pertaining to the topic(s).

The Done Differently Analysis is a short essay in which you reflect on one of your own, past experiences in an organization (personal or professional), analyzing what you could or should have done differently in light of what you have learned in class. This essay will help you to connect the course learnings with your leadership. It will also allow you to reflect on successful and failed strategies, which will help you better prepare and respond in the future.
Although you will inevitably need to describe what happened during a past experience, the analysis should not be a detailed report of everything that happened. Instead, you should focus on analyzing what could or should have happened if you had known the course lessons discussed to-date—and why. In addition to discussing how the process would have differed, you might also reflect on how the outcome would have differed.
A high-quality analysis is one that steps back from a situation, identifies key events and processes, uses course concepts to help structure the analysis, and does so in a well-written fashion. The analysis should be no longer than two pages typed.
I have attached a file containing the chapter readings relevant to this assignment.

Please tell us the name of the leader you chose, why you chose them, what they do for work, and how they have brought about influence and or change among the people they are leading. After your initial post, (when responding to others) comment on whether or not you agree with the leaders they chose and why. (The goal of this discussion is to highlight factors and traits that we believe great leaders possess and why)

Overview:
As you wrote your course paper demonstrating mastery of leadership scholarship through program outcome mastery, you may have noticed gaps in your application of leadership competencies, skills, and behaviors. For example, you might have developed a strong understanding of what the literature says is needed to implement planned change, but maybe you have never actually been part of a planned change project. Therefore, you might determine that you have an experiential gap in implementing planned change. Or, perhaps you have a difficult time determining what is the best diagnostic method to use when determining what changes to implement. In that case, you might judge that you have an implementation gap in diagnosing planned change.
As Marshall Goldsmith told me, if you did not notice any opportunities for improvement, you might start with a gap in humility.
Post & Engage
– Describe three to five gaps or opportunities for improvement in your application of leadership competencies, skills, and behaviors.
(Please refer to Attachment 1 for the demonstrating mastery paper referenced in the overview. Attached 2 is a list of program outcomes, and Attachment 3 is the instructions for the original demonstrating mastery paper)

What types of things will motivate you in your career? Name at least five things. Where would these fit on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and Herzberg’s two-factor theory?
Exercise Instructions: You are required to submit a 2-Page (Title Page and Content Page), APA formatted paper with substantial content. Substantial content requires staying on topic and fully addresses the assignment in a clear, concise, and meaningful manner. The deliverable length of your posting responses must be at least 2-pages, (Title Page and Content Page) APA format.
Exercises must be the students original thoughts based on the topics from the “Open Educational Resource” (OER) Course Textbook and/or other referenced sources. Direct quotes from references must be less than 20 words. Please review for sentence structure, grammar and punctuation errors. Plagiarized submissions may result in a “0” for the submission.
All assignment(s) derive from the OER Textbook. For academic purposes, at least 1 APA formatted reference is required pertaining to the topic(s).

Overview:
As you wrote your course paper demonstrating mastery of leadership scholarship through program outcome mastery, you may have noticed gaps in your application of leadership competencies, skills, and behaviors. For example, you might have developed a strong understanding of what the literature says is needed to implement planned change, but maybe you have never actually been part of a planned change project. Therefore, you might determine that you have an experiential gap in implementing planned change. Or, perhaps you have a difficult time determining what is the best diagnostic method to use when determining what changes to implement. In that case, you might judge that you have an implementation gap in diagnosing planned change.
As Marshall Goldsmith told me, if you did not notice any opportunities for improvement, you might start with a gap in humility.
Post & Engage
– Describe three to five gaps or opportunities for improvement in your application of leadership competencies, skills, and behaviors.
(Please refer to Attachment 1 for the demonstrating mastery paper referenced in the overview. Attached 2 is a list of program outcomes, and Attachment 3 is the instructions for the original demonstrating mastery paper)

The Done Differently Analysis is a short essay in which you reflect on one of your own, past experiences in an organization (personal or professional), analyzing what you could or should have done differently in light of what you have learned in class. This essay will help you to connect the course learnings with your leadership. It will also allow you to reflect on successful and failed strategies, which will help you better prepare and respond in the future.
Although you will inevitably need to describe what happened during a past experience, the analysis should not be a detailed report of everything that happened. Instead, you should focus on analyzing what could or should have happened if you had known the course lessons discussed to-date—and why. In addition to discussing how the process would have differed, you might also reflect on how the outcome would have differed.
A high-quality analysis is one that steps back from a situation, identifies key events and processes, uses course concepts to help structure the analysis, and does so in a well-written fashion. The analysis should be no longer than two pages typed.
I have attached a file containing the chapter readings relevant to this assignment.