Leadership Development - Winter 2023
Health & Wellness Program Implementation
Our company has hundreds of employees with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We would like to implement a formalized health and wellness program to elevate their overall well-being. However, we do not have an adequate understanding of what types of initiatives will be valuable to our employees. We would like to collaborate with students to gain an understanding of what components should be included and the implementation strategies available. This will involve several different steps for the students, including: Analyzing data from employee interviews and surveys. Researching current trends in corporate health and wellness. Developing a realistic health and wellness program. Providing metrics to justify the implementation of the program. Recommending steps to implement the program within our company. Revising and improving the proposed program based on feedback.
Employee Survey Creation
Our company has hundreds of employees with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We want to understand how we can increase employee satisfaction and team efficiency. To understand employee perspectives, we would like to collaborate with students to create an anonymous survey for our workforce. This will involve several different steps for the students, including: Researching platform options to conduct the survey. Identifying the most suitable survey platform for our company. Conducting research on key topics that should be included in the survey. Recommending multiple-choice and short-answer questions to gauge employee opinions. Bonus steps in the process would also include: Testing and improving the questionnaire based on feedback. Administering the survey and analyzing results.
Online Training Course Design
Our company provides regular training for employees, so they are up-to-date on ethics and safety standards as well as changes within the industry. To make training more convenient, we hope to transform our training programs into online courses. We would like to work with students to determine what features and materials employees would find useful in an online training course. Based on this information, students can then recommend the platform that would be most suitable. Tasks include: Gathering relevant course design and content information from interviews / surveys with key stakeholders. Researching options for our online training platform. Assessing existing online training platforms and recommending the best platform for our course. Reviewing our existing training material and making recommendations. Assisting in designing the course and revising training material.
Digital Content Creation
Our company advertises thousands of products online. We hope to revamp our social media and email marketing content to attract more customers. We would like students to help us create content that is aligned with our vision, mission, and sector. This will involve several different steps for the students, including: Familiarizing themselves with our company’s products, marketing goals and target market. Researching factors affecting the quality of digital content. Recommending changes to existing digital content and designing new social media posts and emails. Recommending and designing new digital content not already used by our company. Bonus steps in the process would also include: Testing and improving designs based on feedback.
Redesigning a Human Resources Performance Evaluation
As our organization grows, it is important to stay up to date with the industry’s evolving human resources practices to manage our employees effectively. In this project, students will design a preliminary model of a new performance evaluation system that emphasizes our company goals, and draws a focus to our main challenges that staff are facing. Tasks include: Speaking to current employees and management to determine the needs and challenges of our organization for a performance management system. Researching performance management options that may suit the needs of our team, focusing on measurability and reliability. Establishing a rollout plan that outlines how our organization will transition to using a new performance management system. Using a weighted decision matrix to decide on a method based on factors such as efficiency, user-friendliness, measurability, reliability, and cost- effectiveness.
Reducing Employee Turnover
In recent years, managers of our company have observed a decrease in the life cycle of our employees. Previously, individuals progressed through one or more roles within the organization over 2-5 years before leaving and moving onto new organizations. However, we are unable to pinpoint the exact reason for this. Tasks include: Conducting research on current human resources and workforce trends to determine common reasons people are leaving their jobs today. Formulate (number) strategies to reduce turnover in the company based on the common reasons for turnover that were found in the research stage. Decide on the best strategy based on its predicted effectiveness, cost effectiveness, and the logistics of putting the strategy in action. Students will create a report detailing their research findings, as well as an implementation plan for each strategy they explored.