Leadership Foundations
our textbook: CLASSICS OF ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR by WALTER E. NATEMEYER AND PAUL HERSEY (fourth edition)
The homework is:
Throughout this course, you will develop a leadership plan utilizing content from the textbook, articles, videos, journals, self-assessments, blogs, websites and other research material. Using all the resources provided throughout the course helps you structure the leadership action plan. Self-assessments help identify strengths and limitations as well as areas for improvement and growth. This Leadership Plan helps you develop competencies needed to become effective leaders based on leadership theories, models and concepts explored throughout the course. The Plan will be 6-8 pages in length and you must use APA 6th Edition guidelines. Use the rubric for guidance in developing your paper. Additionally, citing all sources is essential (not citing/improper citing can be considered plagiarized content and will earn a zero grade).
Students will have Two (2) Options (either a personal plan or an organizational plan):
1. The Leadership plan is focused on You
- Background (apply relevant theories, models, concepts from the course)
- Introduction (your experience, background)
- Competencies/Behaviors (utilize self-assessments, blogs, other supporting research)
- SWOT (strengths/weaknesses/opportunities/threats)
- Goals (what are your goals as a leader-use SMART-specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, timeframe)
- Progress (how will you measure your progress, consider what barriers or challenges you face-describe them, what steps will you take to overcome these challenges)
- Summary/Conclusion
2. The Leadership plan is focused on an Organization(typically students use their own organization, but you have the option to select any organization to research)
- Background (apply relevant theories, models, concepts from the course)
- Introduction (introduce/describe the organization, such as number of employees, structure, products they produce/service they provide, include mission and vision)
- SWOT (strengths/weaknesses/opportunities/threats-you will need to conduct research on the company to analyze; example-a threat would be the competition)
- Goals (describe goals, strategic plans or initiatives)
- Progress (what barriers or challenges does this organization face-such as a merger; what can leaders in this organization do to improve/sustain the organization; what changes should be made based on your research)
- Summary/Conclusion
And then Create a powerpoint presentation to describe the final project. Presentations should be approximately 5-10 minutes in length.
