MEMORANDUM TWO

To: Napoleon Huynh

From: Napoleon Huynh
Re: Goal Setting and First Impressions
Date: February 7th, 2017

Dear Napoleon,

In five years, you will be in the midst of a career that sparks your curiosity and enacts a genuine
passion. You will be contributing in ways that find you and the individuals around you the most
joy. At 26 you are a mentor, you are a leader, and you will actively find ways to give back to the
organization.

Mentorship is intentionally helping others by providing insight learned from past experiences.
You will be a mentor who will push, guide, coach, develop, strengthen, and grow your mentees.
You will leverage what you have learned throughout your leadership experiences, classes, and
opportunities in college and beyond to benefit the people whom you mentor. You will help them
find goals, personally and professionally, and will push them to achieve them. You will find
opportunities to give back, even when there are not any. Your curiosity, intention, and drive will
guide you to an innovative idea to contribute to your organization. This will consist of programs
to develop younger professionals, building camaraderie between your peers, or just through
staying engaged and involved with the company. Leadership is a subject that is natural to you.
Whether you serve through a position or just by exemplifying servant leadership you will be
drawn to your instinct to help the others around you. According to Paul Ishii (Class Ten), one of
his tools for an effective career in management was compassion as a dominant blue success
signal and relationship oriented individual, this tool resonates perfectly. You will listen,
understand perspectives, and see your employees as real people. This will be your niche; your
unique contribution as a leader in your organization five years from now.

The organization you will be a part of in five years will be one that truly cares about their people.
They will have internally strategies based upon finding success for their employees. This
organization will have executives who exemplify effective leadership (Class Seven) those who
know how to write action plans, act when needed, focus on opportunities, and have the we
mindset instilled in their nature. The organizations culture will not alter whom you are but it is
something that you will exemplify and hold yourself accountable for. The mission statement and
values of the organization will match their actions and standards. Not only will your values and
vision line up with the organizations self-proclaimed culture but the executives, leaders, and
your boss will be a testament the culture. Your boss will be your mentor, someone who will
guide you along the way but will allow you to be your own version of yourself.

In five years, your role will allow you to manage a team or mentor individuals growing in the
industry you have found your passion in. Your dominant blue success signal (Class Two) is one
of your biggest advantages helping you identify what individual strengths are, reading
personality types, and discovering leadership styles to place those individuals in the best position
possible. Your competitive nature will drive your persistent goal setting and achieving. But,
numbers will not be everything, your role will be based around helping others accomplish more
than they could imagine and that will be one of your biggest contributions to your organization.
Your competitiveness will compliment the democratic leader (Class Three) that you are being
able to gauge the feeling of the team and adapt it to the vision of the organization. Your
communication is dominant, you are not afraid to be transparent to ensure that the team is on the
same page and to clarify challenges this style will allow you to succeed in team environments.
Being able to communicate is key; with your people skills and your emphasis on communicating
will do nothing but benefit your growth in your career. The career you are determining to pursue
after graduation is sales, the negotiation exercise (Class Nine) when selling the tea set sparked
your curiosity; although, your role may not be in sales in five years from now. Many of the roles
in the path correlate directly with your strengths and passions coming out of the University,
leveraging the skills and tools developed over five years will have put you in the perfect role that
you are currently in.

After class eight in Dorothy Bulitts professional leadership class, you stayed behind and had an
insightful conversation with Paul Dziedzic (Class Eight) about your similar order of success
signals. One piece of advice that he emphasized was that relationship based leaders commonly
have the stereotype of feelings being an obstacle to their work he addressed setting an example,
meeting your goals, and ultimately making a name for yourself to set the precedent in your
workplace. Moving towards your goal will be challenging when you are not who you truly are,
ensuring that you dont lose sight of your true leadership styles, traits, and code of ethics will be
your version of being an effective executive. Complacency is a problem that you strived to solve
in your fraternity as a president, continuing your belief in the idea that you can always improve
or grow will be your guiding force in reaching your goals. Father Sundborg (Class Six)
highlighted the importance of allowing your mind to wander and think this personal time to
maintain a healthy mind will be essential in achieving your goals.

Your first month of the job will be based entirely on learning understanding the culture, people,
and internal processes. According to Five Steps to a Leadership brand (Class Three), as a new
leader or member of an organization, your most scarce resource is time therefore you will be
prioritizing what is most important to achieve success and building relationships. You will be
spending a majority of your time in understanding the team or environments culture in order to
best adapt and discover where your strengths lie. Your work ethic, charisma, curiosity, and drive
are your biggest strengths, therefore, it will be important to express that you truly excel in those
areas to generate a foundation for the remainder of your time at the organization. By the first
week, you will have met and understood the general business and have formulated a strategy to
best meet your goals and exceed the normal standard. By the second week, you will be executing
that strategy and adapting to challenges as they arise, as well as determining the results you want
to achieve in the next year. These results will revolve around improving collaboration between
employees, improving the organization, and relationships with the clients. By the third week, you
will truly have a feel of what you will have to do in the role to be a leader to your peers, give
back, and succeed in the role. By the end of the month you will have utilized your strengths and
personality to define your individual identity in the company, and have made a name for
yourself Paul Dziedec.

Stop, take a breath, you can do this.

End Notes
Work Cited
Paul Ishii Intuitive Leadership and his Nine Essential Tools Class Ten

What Makes an Effective Executive Reading Class Seven

Rhonda Hilyer Valuing Diverse Communication Styles and Success Signals Class Two

Negotiation Exercise Class Nine

Paul Dziedzic How can a Team Achieve Success? Class Eight

Father Sundborg Leading from the Heart Class Six

Five Steps to a Leadership Brand Class Three

Leadership that Gets Results Class Three