Organizational Challenge Worksheet

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1 Organizational Challenge Worksheet Leading for Organizational Impact provides the insight, experience, and focus needed to lead organizational functions while at the same time, balancing short-term and long-term strategic requirements. One way to ensure you gain the highest value from your leadership development experience is to have you apply what you learn to your work environment. Specifically, you are being asked to work on an organizational challenge that you are currently facing and to enlist the help of your manager and other senior leaders. Throughout your leadership development experience, you will apply what you ve learned to your organizational challenge, discuss it with fellow participants, and plan critical next steps in addressing your challenge. The following steps will help you identify the best challenge for you to work on throughout your development experience. Step 1: Print this document and make notes as you consider your challenge. When you have completed these steps, return online (the assessment section of myccl.org) and enter your responses into the Organizational Challenge Answer Sheet. Step 2: Start by Listing the Organizational Challenges That You Are Currently Facing.

2 Step 3: Select One of Your Organizational Challenges Above That Meets the Following Criteria. The Challenge Must: 1. Help drive organizational and individual success. 2. Require you and others to work across organizational boundaries. 3. Require you to balance short-term and long-term strategic actions. 4. Potentially change the organizational culture along with beliefs and values of others. 5. Build or strengthen one of your leadership skills or organizational capacities. 6. Be something you are motivated to address and part of your responsibilities. 7. Have the support of your manager and senior management or Board. 8. Be something that you can make progress on in a reasonable amount of time.

3 Step 4: Describe Your Challenge by answering the questions below. Now, think about your organizational challenge and how you can best have impact as a leader. Restate the Challenge as a How might we or I Question. A few examples are provided to help you get started. Examples of Organizational Challenges: How might I better influence and improve current systems and enable needed change? How might I gain greater alignment across the departments in my areas of responsibilities? How might we improve our execution and get better results? How might I concentrate my efforts on the big picture strategy and let others handle the tactics? (Be brief, there is a 200 character limit for your online response.)

4 In a sentence or two, describe any additional background surrounding your challenge. (Be brief, there is a 200 character limit for your online response.) Who are the key stakeholders involved in your organizational challenge? If this is not a new challenge, what have you or others done to resolve this challenge? What is most frustrating to you about this challenge?

5 What does success look like? How will you measure it? Which of the Following Categories Best Describes Your Challenge? (Select All that Apply) Market forces such as shifting business cycles, new competitors, government regulations, geopolitical changes or uncertainties, balancing short-term performance with long-term growth, and ensuring overall organizational profitability and/or sustainability. Organizational agility such as implementing new systems, creating new structural changes such as mergers, acquisitions, or re-organizations; working across functional silos, and shaping organizational culture Connection & relationships such as building strategic networks, alliances and partnerships, influencing across, down or upwards; bridging differences to gain trust, develop teams, engage others, and drive accountability. Personal renewal such as balancing demanding work schedules, ensuring high energy, addressing conflicts in shifting priorities, taking better care of you, sleeping, carving out downtime or family time when being pulled in so many directions. Other (Be brief, there is a 200 character limit for your online response.) Step 5: Enter Your Responses Online. Return online (the assessment section of myccl.org) and enter your responses in the Organizational Challenge Answer Sheet.