Effective Leadership Studies

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perspectives they tend to follow. Please use APA format for this paper to include cover sheet and reference page (if references are used).

Mentor Paper: Please read this information on mentoring found in this folder then prepare a two-page, double-spaced analysis (APA format to include - cover page and reference page) of your chosen leader (from Lesson #1) as a mentor. Questions to answer in your analysis include:

1) Who did your leader mentor? 2) How did they mentor that person? 3) Were they a good mentor? 4) Did your leader display emotional and social intelligence with the mentee?

To answer the above questions, conduct a review of literature to find examples of where your chosen leader was a mentor. This can also serve as initial research on your leader analysis paper due later in the course. Please post your analysis using the link found in the Lesson Folder.

One-Page Decision Memo: Situation: you are a division leader who needs a new position in your division to expand a growing and promising new line of sports equipment. You have already demonstrated that the new line will produce a profit, but there is still hesitancy by the CEO to commit to the new position. Your boss, the operations officer, has directed you to write a one-page memo to the CEO requesting the new position. In your memo, your boss has suggested you focus on the profitability of the new sports equipment line, how the position could further expand the new line and further increase profit, how you would utilize this person (you can get creative with this aspect) and the risk to the corporation is minimal as evident of the projected profitability.

Ensure you follow the suggestions for writing an effective memo found in the Effective Writing for Business readings (found on Blackboard). Submit your decision memo using the link provided in the Lesson Folder. APA format is not used for this assignment.

Leader Analysis Paper: LEAD 500 students will choose and conduct a leader assessment of a public (not a relative or friend) person. The public person is either historic or currently living. Students must have the person of their analysis approved by the instructor. Here are the requirements of this leader assessment:

1. Please use APA format for your paper to include cover sheet and reference page (if references are used).

2. Students must cite five primary sources in the bibliography. A primary source is a book on that person, an article out of an academic journal (Newsweek, US New and World Report, Time, etc. are NOT academic journals) or another written essay on that person. The key is use publications created by authors who directly observed the public figure. Internet articles are usually not primary sources!

3. Students evaluate their leader by analyzing the leader’s behaviors using the Five Practices of Effective Leaders by Kouzes and Posner; Students should have approximately one page of analysis for each practice.

Leader Analysis Paper: LEAD 500 students will choose and conduct a leader y p assessment of a public (not a relative or friend) person. The public person is either p ( ) p p p historic or currently living. Students must have the person of their analysis approved by y g p the instructor. Here are the requirements of this leader assessment:

1. Please use APA format for your paper to include cover sheet and reference page (if references are used).

2. Students must cite five primary sources in the bibliography. A primary source isp y g p y p y a book on that person, an article out of an academic journal (Newsweek, US New p , j ( , and World Report, Time, etc. are NOT academic journals) or another writtenp , , j ) essay on that person. The key is use publications created by authors who directly y p y p y observed the public figure. Internet articles are usually not primary sources!

3. Students evaluate their leader by analyzing the leader’s behaviors using the Fivey y g g Practices of Effective Leaders by Kouzes and Posner; Students should havey ; approximately one page of analysis for each practice.

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4. Students must describe how their leader illustrated one leadership theory studied during the course of this semester. For example, Abraham Lincoln’s leadership style used situational leadership by... This analysis should take approximately one page.

5. Speculate on this person’s DISC profile, their dominant three strengths from Strengthsfinder, and the four-letter personality profile. Provide a summary of what you believe, based on your research, their DISC profile would represent, three strengths that Strengthsfinder may have identified, and their probable personality profile (four letter code) and why. This should take approximately one page.

6. Students should also provide a brief overview and conclusion of their leader. The introduction should include a short personal history of where they were born, where they grew up, challenges in their life, etc. This should be no more than one page for both the introduction and conclusion.

7. The total length of this analysis is eight pages of written text, (plus or minus one page), plus the cover sheet, and references.

Grading Rubric for the Leader Analysis Paper

30 Points: brief, personal, biographical sketch of the person--where they were born, when, what their childhood was like, who they married, etc.

150 Points: analysis of the person’s leadership according to the Five Exemplary Practices of Leaders:

- Model the Way: 30 points - Inspire a shared Vision: 30 points - Challenge the Process: 30 points - Enable Others to Act: 30 points - Encourage the Heart: 30 points

For this, students may must address each practice and should focus on those practices that their person best illustrates. For example, Theodore Roosevelt was very charismatic and illustrated Model the Way effectively, much more than he Enabled Others to Act. Students should acknowledge that Roosevelt did not enable others to act very well and offer possible reasons why he did not, then focus his/her comments on Model the Way.

20 Points: discussion of other leadership concepts, theories, models, or other aspects.

30 Points: Speculate on this person’s DISC profile, their dominate three strengths from Strengthsfinder, and the four -letter personality profile.

20 Points: eight pages of text (+/- one page)

4. Students must describe how their leader illustrated one leadership theoryr studiedp y during the course of this semester. For example, Abraham Lincoln’s leadership g p , p style used situational leadership by... This analysis should take approximately y one page.

5. Speculate on this person’s DISC profile, their dominant three strengths from p p p , g Strengthsfinder, and the four-letter personality profile. Provide a summary of g , p y p y what you believe, based on your research, their DISC profile would represent,y , y , p p three strengths that Strengthsfinder may have identified, and their probableg g y , p personality profile (four letter code) and why. This should take approximately onep page.

6. Students should also provide a brief overview and conclusion of their leader. Thep introduction should include a short personal history of where they were born,p y y , where they grew up, challenges in their life, etc. This should be no more than y g p, g , one page for both the introduction and conclusion.

7. The total length of this analysis is eight pages of written text, (plus or minus one g y g p g page), plus the cover sheet, and references.