Management and Leadership Presentation: COSTCO WHOLESALE
Imagine that you're an expert in the principles of business leadership and are an executive that works for a Fortune 500 company. You have been invited to present at a conference held for some of the top executives at other Fortune 500 companies. Your assigned topic is "Leveraging Leadership to Maximize Business Success."
Pick COSTCO WHOLESALE and create a presentation focused on "Leveraging Leadership to Maximize Business Success". In your presentation, address the below topics as it relates to your Fortune 500 company. For example, in discussing leadership, organizational culture, managerial control, and leveraging diversty, you would share specific examples of what you have done at your Fortune 500 company to bring these concepts to life. Stay away from generic responses and truly adapt your response to your Fortune 500 company.
Create a 10- to 15-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation in which you address the following as it relates to your Fortune 500 company:
• Introduction to leadership:
o Explain the differences between management and leadership, and how cultivating leadership skills in managers can benefit the organization.
o Explain how managers can set effective expectations for their employees to increase organizational performance.
• Organizational culture:
o Describe how managers, when applying leadership principles, can contribute to a healthy organizational culture.
• Managerial control:
o Identify some of the key control mechanisms, and describe how management can apply them to aid in achieving organizational goals.
• Leveraging diversity:
o Summarize some of the best practices for leading a diverse workforce, and the benefits that can come to the organization through leveraging diversity.
Support your presentation with the concepts discussed in class and in the text, and your personal experiences.