Is a leader necessary in an organisation? Justify your position with a rationale and outline possible effects on the organisation you are leading or working in?
Category: Leadership
Newsletter: Exploring the Authoritarian Leadership Style
Depending on what source you review, there are anywhere from 3 4 main leadership styles (authoritarian, participative, delegative, and paternalistic) with some resources stating this number is as high as 17 recognized styles. For this assignment, you will investigate a single leadership style and informally share your findings as if you worked for a professional association (e.g., Society for Human Resource Management or Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology). Prepare a newsletter addressing the following:- The founder/leading theorist of your chosen leadership style.- Number of years the style has been in practice.- Positive and negative attributes of using this certain leadership style.Length: 2-page newsletter with a reference page The completed assignment should address all of the assignment requirements, exhibit evidence of concept knowledge, and demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the content presented in the course.
Leadership Portfolio
In many instances, when you apply for a leadership position, you will be asked to provide evidence of leadership, or a statement of your leadership philosophy. For some organizations, you may be asked to conduct a brief presentation of your leadership skills. Therefore, you should think of this leadership portfolio as a document that will help you advance your career as you reveal your successes and philosophies regarding leadership.
Potential employers will want to know how you deal with people, productivity, crisis and change.
Organize your personal Leadership Portfolio following the order below, compile them into one document and submit your complete portfolio.
Below are the sections you must include:
1. Executive Summary (My Personal Leadership Mission/Vision/Values)
2. My Personal Leadership Strengths
3. My Personal Leadership Skills
4. My Personal Approach to Leadership
5. My Personal Leadership Ethics
6. Pulse-Taking: Organizational Climate
7. Organizational Culture
8. Crisis Leadership
9. Change Leadership
Designing High-Performing Virtual or Distributed Teams: Recommendations and Experiences
Review attached readings and below link
Task
Share recommendations for designing a high-performing virtual or distributed team. include any experiences you’ve had with virtual and distributed teams. Consider experiences you have had or witnessed during the COVID pandemic.
Provide an example from your personal experiences of a time you worked on a virtual team. During the COVID pandemic, most of us had to quickly learn to work remotely. What challenges did you face or did you witness others facing in working remotely? Consider the impact it had on collaboration, teamwork, ability to separate work life from home life, and connection to others.
Implementing an Innovative Strategy for Organizational Performance Improvement
Develop a project outline to be used for the final project.
The project outline is pertaining to the below scenario:
“Implement an innovative strategy to improve organizational performance. As the CEO of a company, you recognize that the organization’s performance has been declining and you need to develop an innovative plan to improve performance. You also recognize that to improve performance you need to develop a strategy that includes diversity, equity, and inclusion. The strategy should include the leadership philosophy to drive the organization and ensure the sustainability of organizational performance. Include in your strategy any data or metrics required to monitor and drive any changes necessary to ensure performance improvement and sustainability.”
Create an outline of your plan/strategy for final project including a problem statement.
Leading Yourself Before Leading Others
Watch the below link from Alkistis Agio, where she discusses leading yourself before leading others and how that impacts the creation of leadership philosophy.
Task:
Consider the leadership perspective you just watched and provide your thoughts on this perspective by creating a 2 page powerpoint presentation and think about the following questions when responding:
· Do you agree with the leadership perspective provided? Why or why not?
· Have you experienced a similar situation? Elaborate on your story.
· Did this help you understand the concepts?
Leadership Style of Al Davis: A Trailblazer in the NFL
Pick a leader in sport or business whom you admire and would like to model yourself after. What type of leadership style do they exhibit based on the managerial grid shown in Figure 1.2? Give an explanation of why you chose this managerial style and provide specific examples to support your explanation. In addition to the text (figure 1.2), find 2 sources to support your statements.
I choose AL Davis former owner of the Las Vegas Raiders my favorite nfl team for his leadership and the diversity he brought to the nfl hiring Black and Hispanic head coaches and treating all players as family
Exploring Trait Leadership: Characteristics and Personal Reflection
1. Identify important characteristics of trait leadership approach.
2. Relate your personal leadership characteristics measured by trait leadership instruments to the leadership approach(s) examined in this module.
Here is the book link: https://reader2.yuzu.com/reader/books/9781544373621/epubcfi/6/22%5B%3Bvnd.vst.idref%3Ds9781544373645.i1275%5D!/4/4/2/1:32%5Bgur%2Ces%5D
Navigating Politics in the Workplace: Balancing Personal Integrity and Organizational Benefits
1. Describe to what level you must deal with politics in your current job and how that affects you.
2. If there were direct benefits, such as new equipment or additional personnel being granted, would you be willing and able to ‘swim with the sharks’?
The Universality of Leadership Ability: Transferring Skills Across Industries
Is leadership ability universal? Can a leader in one industry (e.g., a hospital) be effective in another industry (e.g., a bank)? Why or why not? Find an example in the literature to support your claim.