Week 8 Discussion 1

To prepare for the Week 8 Shared Practice, reflect on your professional experience with leaders with whom you have interacted as a follower, colleague, or supervisor. Consider the strengths and weaknesses these professionals had with regard to leadership and management skills. How well did they perform their roles as managers and as leaders?

Then, identify from your professional experience a leader with whom you have interacted as a follower, colleague, or supervisor that matches only one of the following descriptions:

He or she is a good leader lacking effective managing skills.

He or she is a good manager lacking effective leadership skills.

He or she is an effective leader and manager.

He or she is a neither a good leader nor manager.

Once you have identified a leader from your professional experience that matches one of the descriptions listed above, do the following:

With these thoughts in mind:

Post:

Without giving the actual name of the leader you have selected, identify his or her strengths and weaknesses as a leader and as a manager. Then distinguish his or her leadership skills from his or her management skills.

Provide an analysis of the effect he or she had on the business environment where you worked at the time.   300 words in APA format