Leadership

Write a paper of 1,250-1,500 words that presents your complete personal model of leadership. Be sure to incorporate the instructor’s feedback from the draft of Part 1. The two parts involved in creating your personal model of leadership are as follows: Select values from the “Rokeach Values Survey” that will provide the foundation of your model and discuss the leadership behaviors that will result from those values. Be sure to select values for all four of the levels: individual, interpersonal, organizational, and societal. Be sure to incorporate the feedback from your instructor from your previous draft. How could your personal values and personal model of servant leadership influence individual and group behavior? How could your personal values and personal model of servant leadership positively influence organizations and society? How do servant leadership principles in accordance with the Christian World View, interact with essential management practices and how does servant leadership influence individual, group, and organizational behavior? Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide.

Provide an annotated bibliography (750-1,000 words total) of two of the assigned journal articles from modules 4 and 5 of this course and one additional topically-related, empirical article of your choosing. Include the following for each article: The article citation and persistent link. These are not included in the total word count. Be sure to verify the accuracy of the reference formatting as these can change during the insertion process. A written summary of the key concept(s) of the article. Why was the study done? What was the population studied? What did the researcher(s) conclude? What other information about this study do you believe is unique or important to recall? Are there specific statements made by the author that you wish to retain? Construct an outline for a paper that will explain and synthesize the articles you read for this assignment with at least two additional, topically-related, empirical articles that you will select. The paper will require identification of themes common to all of the articles as well as a statement of the conclusions that can be drawn when the articles are taken together as a single entity. You will be writing the paper in the next assignment.

Write an essay on, What makes affiliative leadership a good leadership style and why. What are the pros of affiliative leadership.

Leadership and Communication Skills To prepare for this discussion, review the list of library articles in this unit’s studies and select two to inform your post. Using your professional work environment or your career goals, discuss a communication or leadership issue, and the tools or methods you would use to address it. Evaluate different leadership and communication methods for global or cross-cultural teams. What obstacles or opportunities do you see? What skills can you apply? You may create a brief case study or provide an example to illustrate your issue or solution. Readings Review the following articles and select two to use as references for this unit’s discussion. Humaidi, N., & Balakrishnan, V. (2015). Leadership styles and information security compliance behavior: The mediator effect of information security awareness. International Journal of Information and Education Technology, 5(4), 311–318. Retrieved from http://www.ijiet.org/papers/522-I00016.pdf Dumitra?cu-B?ld?u, I., & Dumitra?cu, D. D. (2017). Skills and competences international project managers need in order to be successful in a virtual work environment. Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Brasov. Series V: Economic Sciences, 10, 63–70. Endersby, L., Phelps, K., & Jenkins, D. (2017). The virtual table: A framework for online teamwork, collaboration, and communication. New Directions for Student Leadership, 153, 75–88. Hill, N. S., & Bartol, K. M. (2016). Empowering leadership and effective collaboration in geographically dispersed teams. Personnel Psychology, 69(1), 159–198. Srinivas, S. (2016). Improving cross-cultural communication skills. Splint International Journal of Professionals, 3(9), 84–89. Yordanova, E. (2016). Communication skills and the realization of the management process. Business Management, 1, 5–14.

Assume you have been hired as a Project Leader/Manager for a Corporation and have been given a project to manage. Your goal is to complete the project in a way to fulfill the goals of the internal and external stakeholders of the project, including your project sponsors, facility executives, patients, government entities and the like.  Choose your own project: select a project that meets your interests and inspirations, but must be one that requires improvement and management skills. Examples: ·       A hospital has a high rate of re-admission. Your project is to lower the rate by 30% in a year; ·       A company needs to digitize all its purchase order data; ·       And so on … The final semester project will include a paper about a – Project of your choice, in an industry of your choice – you will use the knowledge gained from chapters 1-10 of the text book and other course material, to act as the proxy project manager to develop a comprehensive project management plan. The content of the paper is mainly based on the theoretical aspects of project management. Your paper should follow the APA format (double-spaced) with separate cover and reference.   The cover page should contain the following centralized information:  Title of the project paper:           Your name: Course code and title:                Professor’s Name:                      Program Name:                         College Name   Some of the topics you could use in your paper (your choice):  1.     Your project Attributes 2.     Your project Constraints (scope, cost, schedule) 3.     Your project management process groups  4.     Stakeholder registry and analysis – who are they? Why did you choose them? 5.     Team Members (can use made up names, but specify how many people in your teams and the roles they have to play) 6.     SWOT analysis 7.     Mind mapping 8.     Financial Projection (NPV and ROI 9.     Project Rick Map 10.  Your chosen project management methodology 11.  Pre-initiating meeting 12.  Project charter 13.  Scope statement 14.  Team contract 15.  WBS (graphical/ tabular) 16.  Activity List  17.  Milestone list 18.  Network diagrams (AOA, AON, Gantt chart) 19.  Resources 20.  Time management and buffers 21.  Gantt time Schedule 22.  Cost Estimating Techniques and baseline 23.  Your Quality management plan 24.  Quality Metrics dashboard 25.  Procurement and Supplier contract 26.  Communication plan 27.  Rick management 28.  Make or buy analysis 29.  Integration Management in Execution 30.  Deliverables 31.  Work performance data and change requests 32.  Conflict management 33.  Assess team performance 34.  Quality assurance techniques 35.  Human Resources management 36.  Forecasting with Earned Value Management 37.  Validating scope 38.  Time, cost and quality control Management 39.  Closing Projects 40.  Customer Acceptance and Project Completion Reports  41.  Lessons learned 42.  Close-out Meeting and Knowledge Transfer   Please keep in mind that the semester project should reflect the new knowledge that you have gained in this course and your additional readings, particularly the tools and guidelines included in the text book.  Your paper will present an analytical and measured solution to a problem. You are advised to use charts, graphs and schematic display of your work.

1.     Leadership Assessment Assignment Part I Identify your nonprofit organization’s leadership development practices.  Evaluate the appropriateness and effectiveness in terms of that organization.  Discuss findings, using leadership literature to support conclusions. Part II  Design a research supported recommendation plan to enhance the organization’s leadership development.  In that plan articulate four to six outcomes that are expected for the organization and the current status of the organization on each outcome. Create a plan to assess each of those outcomes and what the assessment expectations are for each of those outcomes.

Coaching Leadership on Sports Teams Compare and Contrast Leadership Styles and Evaluate the Best Coach Fit After reviewing the links below on coaching leadership styles present the coaches and their style might work best for you if you were: (a) A College Athletic Director about to hire a coach Explain your choice (b) A Highly-Recruited College Prospect   Explain your choice https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=mcafee&p=pat+summit+basketball+video+leadership#id=10&vid=94d12b5bbcc1f9c163bdf03da3bd13c4&action=view  (Links to an external site.)   https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-leadership/wp/2015/04/03/the-four-leadership-styles-of-the-final-four-coaches/?utm_term=.6bc2a9e641be  (Links to an external site.)  (Links to an external site.)  (Links to an external site.) Remember to cite your sources in APA format within the initial post and within a reference list.

After viewing the video on intrinsic motivation titled “Drive” by Daniel Pink, Summarize the video message and tell us what you learned from the presentation.Using specific examples, demonstrate how the key points address your own motivation in school and in your free time. Then watch Simon Sinek’s talk on “The Golden Circle” of why, how and what. Summarize “The Golden Circle” video. How does this talk relate to inspiration? How could you use these ideas to inspire the next group project in which you participate?

Imagine a future Global Pandemic. Think in terms of what good, solid leadership might look like in this imagined pandemic. What should a leader do? How should a leader speak to his or her people? What comforting words might that leader offer to his or her people? These are the sorts of questions one should be asking. Clearly, there are more to be asked. Pick eight readings from this Gloria Fiero textbook and use them to create a series of one-page arguments drawn from Humanities readings that show the best from the past as far as leadership in a crisis may be considered. What can the general public learn from those examples? For purposes of this assignment, you must cite every source that you use in accord with MLA style, citing the individual readings on the works cited page as if they emerge from an anthology where Gloria Fiero is the editor. Option A for paper and link “Pandemic”

Take at least one online Leadership assessment. What type of leader are you? What other leadership skills do you possesses? What areas can you improve upon?