Strategic Leadership Plan to Improve Sim's Hardware Business

This presentation details a leadership plan designed to address business challenges at Sim's Hardware, encompassing various components such as organizational values, individual objectives, and strategic goals for improvement. The plan emphasizes encouraging change, influencing organizational culture, enhancing communication between the CEO and employees, promoting effective training programs, gathering feedback, and implementing findings through assigned accountabilities and responsibilities. Resources like to-do lists, KPIs, and employee turnover rates are utilized to measure outcomes, while individual objectives focus on effective customer interaction, communication, teamwork, and contribution to organizational culture. The plan's timeframe is initially set for six months, with regular feedback intervals to correct identified issues, and incorporates environment and sustainability initiatives, including reducing the carbon footprint and engaging in CSR activities. Community engagement is promoted through corporate social activities, supported by professional development to equip individuals with necessary skills. References to relevant studies are included to support the plan's strategies and objectives. Desklib provides access to more solved assignments and study tools for students.

Leadership in Business

Introduction
 This presentation speaks about a plan aimed at improving the business
challenges faced by Sim’s Hardware
 The plan has several components such as organisational values,
individual objectives, and so forth

Organisational goals of improvement
 Encouraging a change
 Influencing organisational culture
 Improving communication between the CEO
and the employees
 Promoting effective training programs
 Gathering feedback
 Implementing the findings

Assigning accountabilities and
responsibilities
 By encouraging individuals and
teams to follow certain things
 Developing a feeling like
something needs to be done
 Encouraging for making
positive choices
 Encouraging to think deeply
about the consequence of each
of the choices
 Setting and communicating
high expectations to teams
 Encouraging to follow to-do-list
(Cohen, 2017)

Resources to help to achieve the
objectives
 To-do-list to do activities accordingly
 KPIs to measure the short-term outcomes
 Employee Turnover Rate (ETR) to assess the financial
outcomes of the plan
 People metrics at work to assign relevant duties to
them
(Ogbonnaya & Nielsen, 2016)

Individual objectives
 Effective interaction with customers
 Effective communication practice between the employees and the
management
 Increased involvement into teamwork
 Effective contribution to organisational culture
 Achieving the short-term goals

Timeframes
 The plan will of course be for short-terms
 The plan should be for the first six months
 Feedback will be shared at regular intervals
 These feedback will be implemented in the next term of months to correct identified issues

Environment and sustainability
 In the first six months, the focus will be on reducing the carbon footprint impact of Sim’s
Hardware
 This will be followed by CSR activities
(Sorensen et al., 2018)

Community engagement and professional
development
 Community engagement will be promoted through corporate social activities
 For this individuals need to learn certain skills
 For the purpose professional development will be helpful
 Professional development will develop new skills needed to take the
responsibility of new activities in the form of CSR activities
(Thomson et al., 2015)

References
 Cohen, E. (2017). CSR for HR: A necessary partnership for advancing responsible
business practices. Routledge.
 Ogbonnaya, C. N., & Nielsen, K. (2016). Transformational leadership, high
performance work practices, and an effective organization. In 76th Annual
Meeting of the Academy of Management.
 Sorensen, G., Sparer, E., Williams, J. A., Gundersen, D., Boden, L. I., Dennerlein, J.
T., ... & Pronk, N. P. (2018). Measuring Best Practices for Workplace Safety, Health,
and Well-Being: The Workplace Integrated Safety and Health Assessment. Journal
of occupational and environmental medicine, 60(5), 430-439.
 Thomson, K., Outram, S., Gilligan, C., & Levett-Jones, T. (2015). Interprofessional
experiences of recent healthcare graduates: A social psychology perspective on
the barriers to effective communication, teamwork, and patient-centred
care. Journal of interprofessional care, 29(6), 634-640.