Background:
You have completed your role on the Succession Plan Committee. You and your Group identified leadership competencies for five internal positions and your group also recommended some internal candidates for consideration of those positions. As you are putting away your notes from the Succession Plan Committee meetings, you come across this statement “These positions will need to be filled over the next 12-24 months. There is not an immediate need for any of them currently, but vacancies will be imminent. The preference is to fill these internally…”
You cannot help but wonder, “why not me”? The more you read the description of the open positions, the more you are convinced that you should put yourself forward as a candidate for one of these leadership positions.
Based off of my competencies and assessment I picked the opening for:
Position #4: Executive Director, North American Division
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Answers to: President and CEO
This leader will head up the largest and most profitable division of Biotech. This division is seen as the “flagship” by the other divisions, since Biotech’s roots are in the United States. This Executive Director has the “ear” of the CEO, and spends a lot of time with the Barney family. This leader is faced with spearheading the future direction of Biotech in North America and is challenged with filling openings throughout the United States and Canada caused by fast growth and a retiring Baby Boomer population.
Directions:
Write a memo to President and CEO, Maximillan Barney using the format outlined below:
Your Memo will be addressed to Mr. Maximillian Barney, the CEO and President of Biotech. The Memo should be single-spaced. The Memo should include the following structural elements:
To:
From:
Date:
Subject:
The report should contain the following sections, with each section supported by course materials. Label each section using Roman Numerals I through X.
- Introduction: Briefly introduce yourself to Mr. Barney and describe the purpose of your memo.
- Identify the position you wish to be considered:
- Briefly review the leadership competencies identified as important for the person that occupies this position.
- Summarize the leadership competencies that you feel you have that make you a qualified candidate for this position. This should be a summary, as you will get into more detail in upcoming sections.
- Identify the outcomes of your Jung Personality Test and Self-Esteem Test, and describe why your personality is suited to the position.
- Identify the outcomes of the Communications Skills Test, and describe why you have the communication skills suited to this position.
- Identify the outcomes of the Leadership Skills Test and the Leadership Style Test, and describe why you have the leadership skills and appropriate leadership style for this position.
- Identify the outcomes of the Cultural Intelligence Test and Emotional Intelligence Test and describe why you have the CQ and the EQ suited to this position.
- Identify the outcomes of the Ultimate Ethics Quiz, and describe why you have the moral compass suited to this position.
- Conclusion – briefly summarize for Mr. Barney why you should be considered for this position.
- Reference Page (in APA format)
- Appendix – to include the results of all self-assessment tests described in the memo in sections III through VII.
References:
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