module 1 assignment

MGT 4308: Management Leadership

Personal Best Leadership Experience Guidelines and Rubric Overview: Whether you consider yourself a leader or not, by this point in your life you have had several leadership experiences. In this assignment, you will relate what you consider to be your personal best leadership experience. To complete this assignment, follow these steps:

1. Describe your personal best ​leadership experience​. This can be an experience that happened recently or even several years ago. Perhaps it was in high school or just last semester. It could have happened on a sports team, in a social organization, at church, with your family or friends, or in a group project. In a few paragraphs, write out what happened. Be sure to describe the ​situation​, including ​who was involved​, what your ​role ​was, and the ​outcomes​.

2. Describe how you and others ​felt ​during the encounter and any specific leadership ​actions ​you took. How did you get the people involved? What were you feeling (anxious, nervous, proud, excited)? What do you think the other people were feeling? What specific leadership actions did you take? How did you motivate others?

3. Reread what you wrote for the previous steps and identify ​three to five leadership lessons​ that you took away from the experience.

4. Based on those leadership lessons, recommend one single piece of ​leadership advice​ you could give to someone else. Guidelines for Submission:​ Your assignment submission must be submitted as a Microsoft Word document, about one page in length, with double spacing, 12-point font, and one-inch margins. Instructor Feedback:​ This activity uses an integrated rubric in Blackboard. Students can view instructor feedback in the Grade Center.

MGT 4308: Management Leadership

Rubric Criteria Exemplary (100%) Needs Improvement (75%) Not Evident (0%) Value

Leadership Experience

Describes personal best leadership experience, including the situation, who was involved, personal role, and the outcomes.

Describes personal best leadership experience, including the situation, who was involved, personal role, and the outcomes, but lacks in detail or clarity.

Does not describe personal best leadership experience, including the situation, who was involved, personal role, and the outcomes.

23

Feelings, Outcomes, and Actions

Describes how self and others felt during the encounter and any specific leadership actions taken.

Describes how self and others felt during the encounter and any specific leadership actions taken, but lacks in detail or clarity.

Does not describe how self and others felt during the encounter or any specific leadership actions taken.

23

Leadership Lessons

Identifies three to five leadership lessons taken away from the experience.

Identifies one or two leadership lessons taken away from the experience, or identifies three or more but they are unclear.

Does not identify leadership lessons taken away from the experience.

23

Leadership Advice Recommends a piece of leadership advice.

Recommends a piece of leadership advice, but it lacks in detail or clarity.

Does not recommend leadership advice.

23

Mechanics No grammar or spelling errors that distract the reader from the content. All sources used are cited using APA Style, 6th ed.

Minor errors in grammar or spelling that distract the reader from the content. All sources used are cited using APA Style, 6th ed.

Major errors in grammar or spelling that distract the reader from the content and/or errors made in citing sources using APA Style, 6th ed.

8

Total = 100 %