CapraTek: Leadership Development and High-Potential Employees Overview For this assignment, you have been hired as the HR training and development team leader for a Fortune 50 organization. Your responsibilities include the creation of an employee leadership development program outline and recommendations for the formalization of a loosely defined group of employees who are referred to as the high-potential group (HI-PO). However, you report to a traditional, tenured, compliance-based HR director who is seeking a strong rationale and concrete recommendations. By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assignment criteria: Analyze components of human capital models that align to human resource management strategy. Evaluate how a strategic human resource perspective drives organizational success. Examine how internal and external economic and demographic shifts change how human resource strategies respond to those changing conditions. Communicate professionally with all stakeholders. Preparation If you have not already done so, view the CapraTek: Leadership Development and High-Potential Employees interaction to learn more about this organization and its leadership. Assignment Description Based on the course materials as well as your own research, use a template of your choice to create a training program outline and your HI-PO recommendations for CapraTek that include the following: Evaluate the leadership development program selection criteria for CapraTek. List the criteria, including necessary qualifications and the performance record the employee should have. Assess the strengths and weaknesses of the leadership development program. Assess the potential positive and negative impacts of the high-potential group program. Discuss the course materials related to HR’s responsibilities conducted in an environment like CapraTek. Your training program outline should be written coherently to support a central idea, in appropriate APA format, with correct grammar, usage, and mechanics as expected of a business professional. Assignment Requirements Written communication: Demonstrate graduate-level writing skills through accurate communication of thoughts that convey the overall goals of the analysis and do not detract from the message. References: Support your analysis with at least two academic, scholarly, or professional resources from the Capella University Library. Format: Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style. Length: 3–4 pages, not including the references list. Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point. Refer to the CapraTek: Leadership Development and High-Potential Employees scoring guide to ensure that you meet the grading criteria for this assignment before submission. Note: Your instructor may also use the Writing Feedback Tool to provide feedback on your writing. In the tool, click the linked resources for helpful writing information. Resources CapraTek: Leadership Development and High-Potential Employees Scoring Guide. APA Style and Format. Writing Feedback Tool . CapraTek: Leadership Development and High-Potential Employees | Transcript. Toggle Drawer [u06d1] Unit 06 Discussion 1 High-Potential Employees and Selection For this discussion, assume the role of vice president for human resources of a large, U.S.-based corporation. You have been assigned to partner with three other VPs in sales, information technology, and finance to panel and review recommendations by supervisors for a very small number of individuals whom they consider to be HI-PO employees. As the HR professional, you will guide the process of selection, and you will have a vote in the selection process. Your task is to develop criteria with which you might select HI-PO employees (or throw the entire concept away and simply evaluate each potential HI-PO employee without criteria). Below are possible criteria for consideration. Support your recommendations for evaluating HI-PO employees with or without criteria. HI-PO employees will automatically be considered for promotion in any opportunity in the organization at the compensation level above them. HI-PO employees will be given opportunities to rotate to departments aside from their own. Response Guidelines Read the posts of your peers and respond to two. Provide comments and questions that encourage critical thinking and insight for HI-PO employee selection. Your response should extend the discussion and stimulate other learners to clarify, strengthen, and extend their dialogue. Consider sharing professional experiences and find additional articles to support your views. Use APA style and format, if applicable. Learning Components This activity will help you achieve the following learning components: Apply knowledge of correct use of APA style. Apply masters-level skill in critical thinking, research, and writing. Cite and reference resources, giving appropriate credit for another’s work. Use feedback from instructor and peers to improve writing skills. Identify organizational processes used to grow internal leaders, or those sourced externally, to balance management perspectives and philosophies. Resources Discussion Participation Scoring Guide. APA Style and Format.