Your Leadership Reflection Journal should exhibit a personal reflection of your present leadership competencies and also possible adjustments that could be made to your leadership approach. Importantly, your Journal entry should be in light of the various concepts that have covered each week in the course. Also of importance, the Leadership Reflection Journal should be far beyond a mere casual discussion. It should demonstrate a high level of understanding and should also provide adequate integration of authoritative sources as assigned for reading each week.
The leadership theories which are applicable in workplace setting are as follows:
I really admire the Hersey and Blanchard’s situational leadership model. This model suggests that there is no specific style followed by a leader of an organization. The leader needs to mold his leadership style as the gravity of the situation, faced by the organization, demands. The characteristics of leadership style may also depend on the maturity of the followers.
A situational leader anticipates a situation, analyzes it and then develops his leadership style accordingly. This makes him manage the overall situation quite effectively. If the company is anticipating a change, he transforms as a change agent and aligns the objective of the change with the overall culture and value system of the company. This makes the change embracement quite effective with the company.
An effective leader must have the following skills:
Your Leadership Reflection Journal should exhibit a personal reflection of your present leadership competencies and also...
Write a reflective paper describing your leadership style and skills. Reflect on what you have learned throughout the course, and think about how you can use this knowledge to further your career. Use the results of your self-assessments, leadership map, and other course materials to guide your reflection. Begin your reflection with a single statement that concisely summarizes your leadership style and approach. The statement should be one that you could later share on LinkedIn or your resume. You could...
To help guide the focus of your project, your audience is the CEO of a mid-size, private sector, non-unionized firm where you have recently been hired to replace the HR Director of the company. An announcement was made two weeks prior to you being hired regarding the abrupt departure of the former HR Director and you have been hired as the replacement. There have also been rumors that there will be reorganization and widespread layoffs within the company. Several employees...
Term Project You will both write and orally present your project. Your write-up of the project is due at the beginning of the class meeting on Monday, November 4, 2019. The teacher expects (but does not guarantee) that students will then present their projects sometime during the remaining class periods, but we will not yet have completed the chapter presentations, so the exact schedule will be worked out later. You may use any format which is sensible to the intended...
Below is the information: It is important to understand the different leadership styles employed by nursing leaders in healthcare organizations and to understand their significance on nursing practice and patient outcomes, for better or for worse. Objective: Read the articles from Nursing Standard (PDF) and Bradley University (PDF). In -250 words, formulate an opinion on the following: 1. Reflect on an occasion where you experienced ineffective leadership (doesn't have to be in the hospital). What behaviors did they display? What...
Building a Case Study Analysis Choose an issue of international relevance on any of the topics: Week 3: Bitcoin, Tariffs and Subsidies, Global Institutions How to Build the Case Responses Find a minimum of three news articles discussing this issue. The articles should be news articles, written by journalists for publication in newspapers or on news, websites (cannot be blogs or commercial sites). They may also be transcripts of news stories that were broadcast on television or radio. The article...
Read the articles provided (Riggio, 2008) and Javidan & Walker (2012). Perform a self-assessment of the global mindset competencies. What competencies do you feel are your strengths? Your areas for improvement? What next learning steps could you take to address your areas for improvement? LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT: THE CURRENT STATE AND FUTURE EXPECTATIONS Ronald E. Riggio Claremont McKenna College This article discusses the common themes in this special issue of Consulting Psychology Journal on "Leadership Development" and summarizes some of the...
Directions What is a research proposal? The purpose of a research proposal is to identify and formulate questions that arise from nursing practice and to design a research project to study the identified problem. The goal of a research proposal is to present and justify a research idea you have and to present the practical ways in which you think this research should be conducted. Research proposals contain extensive literature reviews and must provide persuasive evidence that there is a...
To fully address this case assignment, please read and analyze each assigned case. Your response for each case should be numbered and provide the following: 1. Summarize the key OB issues in the case relative to this week's material (at least 2 key issues MUST be identified). Be sure to speak in OB language, using appropriate terminology to identify the concepts and issues you identify. 2. Clearly link the key issues in the case back to relevant and specific course...
Module 8: Journal Assignment-Explaining Memory to a Child (20 points possible) Chapter 8 in your textbook starts off with a section on conceptualizing memory. In my PowerPoint lecture notes that I've posted, you will see that I've annotated a figure called the "Atkinson-Shiffrin Memory Model" on Slide #3 from Chapter 8; however, you will not find this figure in your book (assuming you have the 8th edition or higher). In contrast, Figure 8.1 from your textbook (found on page 233...
INSTRUCTIONS: After reading the attached article, How To Reskill Your Workforce For AI (Artificial Intelligence).pdf your job is to provide a very brief summary, analysis, and evaluation. We can define these important concepts as follows: Summary- A formal, logical, consistent way of highlighting the main points. Purpose: In school - to quickly and accurately describe something you have read In professional life - to provide a faster-to-read version of the material to other readers In personal life - to reflect...