The concept of leadership as a “vocation” greatly distinguishes leadership from a job, career, or what one simply does for a living.
DQ1 The concept of leadership as a “vocation” greatly distinguishes leadership from a job, career, or what one simply does for a living. A vocation can be thought of as one’s calling. Vocation is often associated with the clergy or missionaries who feel called by a higher power to fulfill a specific purpose. Vocation is also a concept associated with careers like teachers, emergency responders, doctors, or other health care professionals who feel strongly compelled to dedicate their own lives to improving the lives of those whom they serve. Consider your own view of leadership. Discuss how this understanding of leadership as a vocation informs your understanding of the personal and moral commitments required of leaders. If leadership is not a job, but a calling, discuss the responsibilities leaders have towards their position, their organization, and their followers.
DQ2 Leadership is a complex process that requires leaders to critically appraise the circumstances in which they find themselves to best determine how to lead and influence those around them. There are multiple tactics leaders can employ in any given circumstance to influence a situation or their followers. Compare two leaders you have dealt with in the past. Discuss the different tactics these leaders employed to influence situations or people. Provide examples of when these tactics were successful and when they were not successful. As a leader, describe how you can critically appraise situations to make sure you select appropriate tactics for influencing a given situation.
LDR600 Leadership Styles & Development
Week 2 Discussion
DQ1 Review “Case 3.1: A Strained Research Team,” located in Chapter 3 of the textbook, Leadership: Theory and Practice. Post a 250-300 word response to the questions located at the end of the case. In your response, be sure to address the strengths and weaknesses of the three-skill approach in this situation.
DQ2 Review “Case 4.1: A Drill Sergeant at First,” located in Chapter 4 of the textbook, Leadership: Theory and Practice. Post a 250-300 word response to the questions located at the end of the case. In your response, be sure to address the strengths and weaknesses of the behavioral approach to leadership in this situation.
LDR600 Leadership Styles & Development
Week 3 Discussion
DQ1 As discussed in Topic 1, effective leaders apply various leadership tactics depending upon the contexts in which they find themselves. Consider the leadership tactics, traits, or models you find yourself drawn to as a leader. Discuss what elements you are drawn to regarding these particular tactics, traits, or models, including how they interconnect with your own personal, moral, ethical, or religious beliefs. Additionally, discuss whether you believe personal, moral, ethical, or religious beliefs of leaders can interfere with their ability to effectively lead and provide specific examples to support your reasoning.
DQ2 Select a leader you believe successfully led an organization through a crisis or challenge (e.g., public relations crisis, marketing mishap, shift in market demand, reorganization). Identify the leader and the company with which the leader is affiliated. Provide a brief context for the crisis or challenge. Identify the leadership models and approaches that were employed in the handling of the situation. Finally, explain why you think the leadership was particularly effective in this context.
LDR600 Leadership Styles & Development
Week 4 Discussion
DQ1 Describe the strengths and weaknesses of transformational leadership theory and leader-member theory exchange theory (LMX). Include in your discussion how your knowledge of the LMX theory might help you to become a better leader, as well as how you would apply transformational theory and leader-member exchange theory (LMX) to improve an organization’s performance.
DQ2 Consider the four characteristics of conscious capitalism: conscious leadership, stakeholder orientation, conscious culture, and higher purpose. Describe how these characteristics together can improve an organization’s performance. Discuss in the context of your own organization, an organization you have belonged to in the past, or another existing organization that would benefit from significant organizational improvement.
LDR600 Leadership Styles & Development
Week 5 Discussion
DQ1 Select an individual that you believe exhibits authentic leadership and provide specific examples. Describe the role of authentic leadership in creating trust and followership in this example, including how it can improve organizations. Additionally, consider the four characteristics of conscious capitalism and indicate how each of these can be applied in the example you have provided.
DQ2 Christian servant leaders profess to serve those whom they lead through love and the moral obligation to promote the greater good of others. Describe the leadership behaviors you would expect from a Christian servant leader and how those behaviors might differ from someone who is not a servant leader. Also, although servant leadership is often associated with the Bible and the teachings of Jesus Christ, explain whether you believe servant leadership is compatible with other religions or worldviews and why.
LDR600 Leadership Styles & Development
Week 6 Discussion
DQ1 Compare the strengths and weaknesses of adaptive leadership. Including the particular challenges an adaptive leader might encounter in encouraging their followers to solve their own problems and challenges.
DQ2 Discuss the impact an individual’s preconceived notions, prejudices, and interpretations of other cultures can have on the workplace. As a leader, describe how you might employ the psychodynamic approach to help the employees get along with each other and work better together. Include in your explanation a discussion of how the four characteristics of conscious capitalism can also be applied to further improve employee engagement and collaboration.
LDR600 Leadership Styles & Development
Week 7 Discussion
DQ1 Consider the complexities of interdepartmental collaboration of diverse teams across several functioning areas of an organization. Evaluate your leadership acumen and the skills needed to achieve collaboration across functional groups to achieve success. Discuss the opportunities for growth in your current skill set and provide an example of how you can prepare yourself for these challenges. Include in your discussion what you can start doing, stop doing, and continue doing to prepare yourself to lead in these complex situations.
DQ2 Leadership positions within teams can often be fluid and dynamic. Circumstances may require an individual to step forward and lead in some situations and then adopt the role of follower in others. As a leader, discuss when you know when it is appropriate to lead and when it is appropriate to follow. Include an explanation on how you can utilize conscious leadership in fostering leadership skills in your team members, so they too feel confident enough to lead when the situation calls for it.
LDR600 Leadership Styles & Development
Week 8 Discussion
DQ1 Consider the opportunity for civil discourse (the concept of being able listen for understanding) on diverse teams. From a leadership perspective, discuss how you can facilitate interactions about diversity, inclusion, and equity among peers and those under your supervision without discounting the perspective of others. Provide a specific example to support your response.
DQ2 Describe a situation from your personal work experience (do not disclose specific names) in which you encountered a toxic leader. Describe the traits that qualify this leader as “toxic” and indicate how the situation could be different if this individual applied the concepts of conscious leadership.
LDR600 Leadership Styles & Development
Week 1 Assignment
Leadership Profile
The purpose of this assignment is to identify leaders that exemplify effective leadership traits and evaluate the influence that their leadership qualities have in inspiring followership.
Complete the “Leadership Profile” document.
While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
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The Leadership Profile assignment seeks to expose you to leaders that exemplify leadership qualities.This provides an opportunity to consider (if you have not already)the qualities of leadership with which youmost identify.
Identify a minimum of seveneffective leadership traits.Match a business leader who exemplifies each identifiedtrait, as well as the company and job title for each business leader. Note that more than one trait may be attributed to a single leader.Include a description of how the leader exemplifies the leadership trait and describe how the leadership trait inspires followership.
Leadership Matrix:
Effective Leadership Trait Name of Person WhoExemplifies Leadership Trait Company Job Title Description of How Leader Exemplifies Leadership Trait Describe if and How the Leadership Trait Inspires Followership
Leadership Summary:
Provide a summary (250-500-word minimum)in paragraph format that further explains the role of power and influence within leadership.Describe the traits you believe inspire others, including an explanationof the qualities you believe will foster effective leadership.Strengthen your claims with specific examples by providinga minimum of tworeferences, not including the textbook.
While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
Summary Essay
References
LDR600 Leadership Styles & Development
Week 2 Assignment
Theoretical Framework for Leadership Preparation
The purpose of this assignment is to identify a book about a specific leader that demonstrates successful leadership as a vocation.
Complete the “Theoretical Framework for Leadership Preparation” worksheet.
While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
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Theoretical Framework for Leadership Preparation
The Theoretical Framework for Leadership assignmentenables you to analyze leadership as a vocation and evaluate qualities of professional excellence and integrity characterized by inspiring leaders. In preparation for this assignment, you will select a book about a specific leader that exemplifies successful leadership as a vocation. You can select a book by a well-known individual in the discipline of leadership or a leader in your own field, religion, sport, or another area of personal interest.
Complete the table below and submit this worksheet to your instructor. To allow time for thoughtful reading and planning for this assignment, consider the following items that you will be writing about when selecting a book:
• Practiced style of leadership
• Demonstrated leadership traits
• How the leader perceives leadership as a vocation
• How the leader inspires followership
While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center
Title of the book
Reference
A50-100-word rationalefor why you selected this book,including a discussion of the demonstrated success of the leader
LDR600 Leadership Styles & Development
Week 3 Assignment
Analysis of Turn the Ship Around! (A)
The purpose of this assignment is to evaluate the application of various leadership models and approaches, specifically the path-goal theory and the situational approach to leadership, in extreme circumstances.
Review the Turn the Ship Around! (A) case. As a leader, you will be faced with responding immediately to solve issues. The Turn the Ship Around! (A) case is an example of leadership under extreme circumstances. Reflect on this example to shape how you might apply the goal-path theory and the situational leadership approach in an everyday, real-world situation.
Write a 500-750-word paper that analyzes the events outlined in the case by addressing the following questions and concepts. Be sure to support your rationale by providing specific examples. You are required to include three to five additional references to support your position.
Discuss how the leaders demonstrate flexibility and adaptability.
Describe how the leaders apply aspects of the path-goal theory to this situation.
Discuss the leader’s ability to communicate effectively with all of the stakeholders involved and how communication could have been improved.
Explain how well the leaders follow the situational approach to leadership.
Describe how this case might shape how you apply the goal-path theory and the situational approach in a real-world situation.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to the LopesWrite Technical Support articles for assistance.
LDR600 Leadership Styles & Development
Week 5 Assignment
Essential Leadership Competencies
The purpose of this assignment is to examine essential leadership competencies to effectively lead individuals in an organization.
Complete the “Essential Leadership Competencies” worksheet.
While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
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Essential Leadership Competencies
The purpose of this assignment is to examine essential leadership competencies to demonstrate leadership as a vocation, as well as successfully lead in an organization. Complete all of the questions for each category of essential leadership competencies. Be sure to address each question fully and support your responses with at least one supporting reference.
Self-Leadership
1. Self-leadership provides an opportunity to achieve your objectives through your own thinking, feelings, and behaviors.Self-reflection is a necessary tool to improve the way you function as a leader.Discuss how you plan to practice methods of self-reflection that contribute to the development of how you lead.
2. Recognition of characteristics of professional excellence plays a key role during interviews and performance evaluations.These characteristics must be visible to colleagues and stakeholders in order for you to benefit from them.Describe which characteristics of professional excellence you currently have and which characteristicsyou want to have.
3. Emotional and social intelligence skills translate to communication skills.Leaders who are able to access their emotional center have an advantage over leaders who only rely on intellect.Emotional and social intelligence can be an area of significant personal growth. Discuss the emotional and social intelligence skills you think you most strongly possess and those you want to work on.
4. Continued professional development delivers benefits to individuals, their profession, their community, and possibly the world at large.Most notably, continued professional development keeps you desirable in your current position and attractive to potential employers, if needed. Discuss the ways you can utilize professional development to ensure ongoing professional progress and growth, specifically in leadership.
5. Organizational responses to change in the workplace are the result of individual leaders who are employed within the organization.As a leader, the ability to manage change is essential.Describe how you can demonstrate flexibility and adaptability in response to changing or unknown circumstances.
Leading Others
1. An effective leader has followers and inspires them.This relationship is mutually beneficial. Leaders and followers support each other in order to achieve goals, vision, or objectives.Evaluate the role of authentic leadership in creating trust and followership. Describe how you plan to inspire followership through the utilization of such leadership and motivation theories.
2. Diversity can be a strength within a team and organization.First, diversity must be recognized and leveraged as a strength.Diversity provides fresh ideas and perspective fora team or organization.Discuss how you will analyze people’s strengths in order to leverage diversity to improve performance outcomes.
3. Communication and collaboration are increasingly important in a global and digital environment. Effective communication and collaboration among different stakeholders are prevalent in the workplace to meet business goals.Explain what strategies you will use for effectively leading teams and fostering collaboration among various stakeholders and how you will apply them.
4. A great leader seeks to coach and guide in order to develop leadership qualities in others.Most leaders have had the opportunity to be coached by other great leaders.Coaching others enables people to improve their performance.Discuss some ofthe methods of coaching and providing guidance that can help develop leadership qualities in others.
Leading an Organization
1. Analyzing organizational behavior can drive innovative change and encourage organizational growth, including improved outcomes.When new leadership is established, the leader often sets a vision.The leader must evaluate systematic interdependencies among individuals, teamsand departments to inform their vision and apply innovation to improve organizational outcomes.
Explain how you can develop and communicate a compelling vision to guide organizational development. Include a discussion ofhow you plan to analyze organizational behavior to determine systemic interdependencies among individuals, teams, and departments. As well as how you plan to integrate creativity and innovation toimprove organizational outcomes through leadership.
2. New and existing leadership requires the leader and the followers to be of the same mind.Explain how you can foster a climate of learning and development within an organization.
3. Organizational responses to technological advances and economic shifts contribute to change in the workplace.Determine which strategies can be utilized for implementing and managing change within an organization and how you plan to use them.
Leading as Vocation
1. Compare the strengths and weaknesses the characteristics of transformational leadership theory and leader-member exchange theory (LMX). Explain the responsibility leaders have in improving organizational performance. Discuss how you would integrate aspects of transformational leadership theory and leader-member exchange theory in your personal approach to leadership.
2. Numerous historical and recent events provide examples of leaders whodid and did not understand they had amoral obligation to lead with kindness, compassion, and justice for the good of followers and the community.The outcomes of these events maydirectly and indirectly affect you, your peers, the community, and society.Discuss guidelines to ensure you lead with moral obligation for the good of followers and the community. Includehow you intend to lead with kindness, compassion, and justice.
3. Leaders who consider leadership their vocation consider it a service to others and for the common good. Explain how the moral imperatives of servant leadership are distinguished from other forms of leadership. Describe how you intend to implement servant leadership that promotes the common good and contributes to the benefits of communities and society at large.
LDR600 Leadership Styles & Development
Week 6 Assignment
Benchmark – Analysis of a Theoretical Framework for Leadership
The purpose of this assignment is to examine the theoretical framework, style, and leadership traits of effective leaders.
In Topic 2, you selected a book about leadership by a successful leader whom you believe has adopted leadership as a vocation.
In an analysis of minimum 750-900 words, examine the theoretical framework, style, and leadership traits presented in the selected book. Discuss how this particular individual has adopted leadership as a vocation. Additionally, from the perspective of a leader, describe which qualities of this person you would seek to emulate in order to inspire followership, including which shortcomings of this leadership approach would you attempt to overcome. Be sure to cite examples from the book and integrate a minimum of four secondary sources on leadership theory to support your analysis.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to the LopesWrite Technical Support articles for assistance.
Benchmark Information
This benchmark assignment assesses the following programmatic competencies:
MBA Leadership
5.1: Analyze theories of leadership and motivation in order to inspire followership.
MS Leadership
1.1: Evaluate qualities of professional excellence and integrity that characterize inspiring and effective leadership.
2.1: Analyze theories of leadership and motivation in order to inspire followership.
MBA and MS Leadership
5.1: Evaluate qualities of professional excellence and integrity that characterize inspiring and effective leadership.
LDR600 Leadership Styles & Development
Week 7 Assignment
Analysis of Blake Sports Apparel and Switch Activewear: Bringing the Executive Team Together
The purpose of this assignment is to evaluate effective strategies for leading diverse groups at various levels of an organization while fostering collaboration and compassion.
Review the case, Blake Sports Apparel and Switch Activewear: Bringing the Executive Team Together. Consider the criteria for successful teams and the factors needed to ensure teams are structured for success.
Write a 750-1,000 word plan describing the steps necessary to create more successful teams at various levels in an organization by utilizing the events outlined in the case. Address the following questions and concepts in your paper. Be sure to support your rationale by providing specific examples. You are required to include three to five additional references to support your position.
Define the characteristics and structure of successful teams. Describe how independent teams are vital to organizational success.
Discuss the important factors to consider when leading teams within the various levels of an organization. Discuss specifically which factors are important to consider when leading teams at the executive level.
Describe the aspects that are essential in identifying appropriate members for teams and ensuring the teams are successfully launched.
Discuss the important factors for ongoing team dynamics. Describe guidelines to evaluate the function and productivity of teams.
Describe strategies that can create collaboration and leadership initiative among team members. Based on the content provided in the case, explain the action that Barker can take to improve collaboration among the team members.
Compassion is a significant attribute of many religions and philosophies, as well as being important for both authentic and servant leadership. From a Christian worldview perspective, discuss how would you empower your teams as a leader through compassion, honoring diversity, engaging team members in civil discourse, and supporting equality for all members as they work toward a common goal.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to the LopesWrite Technical Support articles for assistance.
LDR600 Leadership Styles & Development
Week 8 Assignment
Benchmark – Professional Development Plan
The purpose of this assignment is to reflect on personal and professional development and specify an individual plan for achieving leadership objectives.
Use the “Professional Development Plan” worksheet to complete the assignment.
Reference your Essential Leadership Competencies assignment from Topic 5 for additional assistance on completing the assignment.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to the LopesWrite Technical Support articles for assistance.
Benchmark Information
This benchmark assignment assesses the following programmatic competencies:
MS Leadership
1.2: Practice methods of self-reflection that contribute to the development of character required by effective leaders.
MBA and MS Leadership
5.2: Practice methods of self-reflection that contribute to the development of character required by effective leaders.
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