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Develop your own leaders: "Star Employee" to utilise diversity

“Star Employee” program looks at select talented employees across different departments, regions, and countries from the organization to form a temporary team to work together on a number projects within a length of period. The aim of such program is to provide those selected employees the opportunity to work in a very diversified team to gain abilities to anticipate effective teamwork, skills in motivating diversified individuals, apply and judge various performances, adapt effective communication in the diversified environment and develop a firm leadership style that potentially enable them to return to their original workplace and become a successful leader.

Selection progress

Individuals to be selected by appropriate performance measure set by the organization. Individuals shall demonstrate the ability to make significant contribution to the organization both individually and as a team member. Furthermore, the individual selected should have proof the desire to take up further career in the organization and a strong self motivation to actualize oneself in the social group one belongs to.

Implementation

After talented individuals are selected to attend the program, they will be put together into team(s) depending on the size of the selected population. It is always desirable to allocate the team member into one location so that face to face communication can be performed. However, members can also utilize the visual face to face telecommunication under the circumstance of cost concern.

The team then gets assigned to tasks that the organization is aiming to achieve such as targeting new markets, new business initiatives, or operational developments etc. The program then evaluates individual’s personal performance and overall team achievement upon the completion of the project. As a new project starts a different member to be elected as team leader in order to give all members the opportunities to develop one’s own leadership styles. Team members eventually are assigned leadership roles either in one’s original department or another department once all projects are successfully completed.

Aim of the “Star Employee” program

The aim of the project is to force selected members to adapt the environment where diversity is heavily influencing performances. It is aiming upon the completion of such program individuals shall be able to grasp the knowledge in dealing with various diversity issues and able to utilize diversity as an useful tool not a harmful hazard.

Team work: “Star Employee” team which consist members with different nationality, age, gender, and lifestyle stage to work as a team to tackle down specific projects that the organization is aiming to achieve. This will stimulate the individual to understand more about how a heterogeneous team can work effectively to increase productivities and efficiency.

Motivation: “Star Employee” members with different motivation factors will expose their own motives to each other. This enables each individual to understand more about the motivation technique and able to utilize this technique in the future when leading one’s own team.

Performance: “Star Employee” members under the influence of one’s unique motives will focus on different performance measures. The program will ensure that individual member to have better understanding on why one might perform differently than others in the team and utilize appropriate measure to reward or stimulate certain performance.

Communication: Yet this is one of the most key components in the teamwork environment. “Star Employee” member shall achieve the skill to effectively communicate with others that has totally different background and values.