This exercise is designed to assess your ability to address complex business problems and to communicate a commercially sound and well-thought-out business solution.

Background

You have recently joined the Department of Transport (DoT) as an Employee Development Manager. As one of your first assignments, you have been asked to select a suitable training provider to support some aspects of their Leadership Development Program. In total, the DoT has 15,000 employees of which they have selected 250 individuals to be part of their new leadership development program, called “Tomorrow’s Leaders”.

Due to its massive role in the development of infrastructure and transportation, the Department of Transport administers itself through five agencies: Marine, Public Transport, Traffic & Roads, Rail, and Aviation.

The following documents are included in this exercise to enable you to identify a preferred training provider:

• A Powerpoint Presentation prepared by the Project Lead for the Project Kick-off Meeting
• An executive summary of 3 proposals received from various training suppliers

Task

You are required to prepare a PowerPoint presentation and present your analysis and conclusion to the Director of Human Resources.

When preparing your presentation:

• Analyze the information attached
• Identify and justify the best training solution, based on the following criteria:
• Most aligned with the strategic objectives of DoT
• Most likely to build the leadership capacity of the DoT
• Make clear recommendations as to how any identified challenges could be overcome, providing your rationale in each case
• Outline the proposed project plan for the Leadership Development Program, clearly stating any resource requirements
• Outline how the Leadership Development Program will support DoT’s endeavors to develop a robust succession plan

In accomplishing this task, you may decide to base certain decisions on assumptions. Please state these assumptions clearly.