Taking the planning structure discussed in Chapter 3 in Business Writing Today: Decide on the best content to discuss the problems, solutions, audience, and call to action needed for your proposal. Consider how to organize the beginning and middle, to make it end with action from your audience. For your discussion post, share some of your problems, solutions, or your call to action. Show how you will organize them by adding your draft outline to your discussion post. This is a continuation of the week 2 assignment Review strategic communications outlines from at least two of your peers. Provide feedback. Don’t be afraid to challenge their assumptions, suggest new possibilities, and affirm their choices when those choices are good. Attached is the The previously completed week 2 assignment of picking the topic. The topic chosen is “Internal Promotions in the Workplace” A classmate post response to this discussion prompt. Here’s a quick overview of my strategic communication plan, including a brief description of the following in bullet format: • The purpose of communication is to resolve problems, shortcomings or processes that are making background checks take longer than expected. • My goal is to complete the ongoing assessment and improve the background investigation at the request of the Office of the Director of the National Intelligence Service (ODNI). • The audience will be all members of the cradle-to-grave personnel safety and suitability process. • The key message is to address what we did right, what we did wrong, and what can be improved by changing the process. • Support Points will deal with obvious obstacles, failures, duplication of work and slow processes, as well as suggestions for improvement and solutions. . • Channel Selection – Use PowerPoint and a graphical representation of processes, bandwidth throttling points, downtime, and future developments and changes to open online video conferences. Request for Action – Proposed changes will be made to improve the timeliness of the process, using sincere positive feedback and open dialogue for ongoing evaluation and adaptation to increase communication clarity and improve COM510 Week 2 Explore Graded Activity Template Use the prompts below to submit your proposal topic and audience analysis to your instructor for review. Save your document with your last name_first initial_Week2_COM510 (example: Smith_J_Week2_COM510). My topic is: My topic is internal promotions in the workplace. This concept contemplates promoting members of a particular organization so long as they qualify for that job rather than opting for people from the external market. This approach ensures that whenever a vacancy arises in the organization, employees in the current workforce submit their names for consideration as candidates suitable for holding that particular position. It is important because The topic’s importance is that it discusses an aspect of human resources that most organizations tend to overlook. It lays bare the external and internal dynamics in the market as employers strive to fill different positions in their ranks. The employment market is never static as people opt out of their current employment positions to pursue further education or even seek greener pastures elsewhere. Turnovers are common occurrences in any workplace, and while they happen for different reasons, the expected outcome is that the employer must devise mechanisms to address such situations. Therefore, probing the topic helps employers appreciate internal promotions’ significance in filling different roles and guaranteeing business continuity amid transitions at different levels. It serves as a trigger for the organization to invest in elaborate mechanisms designed to facilitate a competent rollout of internal promotions. It solves the following problem(s) Beyond merely identifying a concept and interpreting its significance, one must establish the practicality of embracing the recognized approach. Internal promotion is a viable aspect in practical employment scenarios because it solves challenges that an organization faces during transitions. The loss of a single employee creates a rather tough situation for any organization because it must find another individual to take the mantle and perform similar duties. The challenge with hiring people outside the company is that they take a lot of time to fit into the organizational culture. Similarly, they take a significant amount of time settling into their new responsibilities, understanding the scope of their job, and its significance in the broader © 2020 Strayer University. All Rights Reserved. This document contains Strayer University Confidential and Proprietary information and may not be copied, further distributed, or otherwise disclosed in whole or in part, without the expressed written permission of Strayer University. Page 1 of 2 COM510 organizational setup. Therefore, investing in internal promotions helps the organization avoid significant delays in operations by having people who can step up and fill in such vacancies. Its benefit(s) is (are) The practice of internal promotion has immense benefits for any organization that implements it. First, the approach benefits the organization through its time-saving effect and cost-friendliness. Replacing a qualified person, especially one who has discharged that role for a significant period, is no easy task. The typical approach of hiring employees from outside the company requires extensive planning and advertising to help the organization cast its net as wide as possible. The hiring process usually takes a lot of time as the organization vets the candidates to get the best fit. The organization must allocate extensive resources to have people tasked with receiving applications, verifying that the candidates meet the set criteria, and interviewing them. On the contrary, internal promotion helps the entity save time because it understands the employees well. It does not have to conduct extensive background checks because it already undertook such processes at first instance. Therefore, the internal promotion shall save the organization time and money. Internal promotion reduces the risks that hiring processes create for an organization. External hiring bears the likelihood that the chosen candidate may not be the best fit for the job or be misaligned with the organization’s values. Therefore, the internal promotion allows the organization to pick an individual from candidates whose work ethic and personal values it understands. This aspect is more crucial in a high-ranking managerial position where a mismatch could lower productivity. Internal promotion also motivates employees by providing them with a clear path for career progression. Consequently, employees are more productive and take a keener interest in learning different facets of organizational operation. My audience is The presentation shall be delivered to the CEO, the board, and top executives in the company. It is vital to ensure that such presentations are made to people who can implement the recommendations and reshape organizational policy. The identified stakeholders play a critical role in the entity’s human resource approach. The top leadership creates the vision that guides the organization hence the need to convince them about the massive potential that internal promotion bears for the company’s future. © 2020 Strayer University. All Rights Reserved. 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Page 2 of 2 Here’s a quick overview of my strategic communication plan, including a brief description of the following in bullet format: • The purpose of communication is to resolve problems, shortcomings or processes that are making background checks take longer than expected. • My goal is to complete the ongoing assessment and improve the background investigation at the request of the Office of the Director of the National Intelligence Service (ODNI). • The audience will be all members of the cradle-to-grave personnel safety and suitability process. • The key message is to address what we did right, what we did wrong, and what can be improved by changing the process. • Support Points will deal with obvious obstacles, failures, duplication of work and slow processes, as well as suggestions for improvement and solutions. . • Channel Selection – Use PowerPoint and a graphical representation of processes, bandwidth throttling points, downtime, and future developments and changes to open online video conferences. 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