Day: February 26, 2021

purpose

The purpose of this results-based leadership assignment is to enable you to apply the various concepts of leadership covered thus far by (a) reflecting upon your own commitment as a student, and (b) formulating your demonstrated leadership style in relation to the results you are getting while at the University of Manitoba. In your response, you are required to use the appropriate literature to support your thinking.

House and Mitchell (1974) suggested that followers (students; you) will be motivated if they/you (a) think they/you are capable of performing their/your work, (b) believe their/your efforts will result in a certain outcome, and (c) believe that the payoff for doing their/your work is worthwhile.

how to proceed

Assignment

In your paper, please complete the following questions:
Future-focus: What outcome(s) do you envision for yourself at the end of this academic year?
Now-focus: What are the results that you are currently getting as a student at the University of Manitoba and in this class? Are you satisfied with the results you are getting? Do you think you are capable of performing better? Please explain.
What are you currently doing to get the results you are getting? (Do not focus on what you are NOT doing, but rather on what you ARE doing)
What way of thinking is moving you to do what you are currently doing?
In direct relation to your current results, what traits, skills, and/or styles have you adopted either intentionally or unintentionally?
Literature:
What specific concepts that you learned from either, traits, skills, behavior, Situational Leadership, Adaptive Leadership Theory and/or Path-Goal Theory of Leadership will aid you in improving, enhancing, or changing your approach to being the best student that you can be?
How will the concepts you identified help you be the best student that you can be?
Action:
What specific actions will you now need to take to improve on or change your current practices for the sake of achieving what you envision for yourself?
What kind(s) of support will you need?
For the sake of achieving what you envision for yourself, what leadership style(s) and way(s) of thinking would you need to embrace?

Format

Length:
No more than 6 pages (double spaced). Times New Roman, Font Size 12. APA7

Cover Page:
Make sure your cover page includes the following:

Name of Course
Title of Assignment
Student Name and #
Submitted to: Name of Instructor
Date Submitted

Alternatively, you may approach this assignment through a creative and arts-based method. This means that your answers do not have to be in an essay format; they can be expressed and represented in any format and through any medium (e.g., your own self-authored poem, free verse, visual art, collage, recorded dance, spoken word, play, …..etc; it is up to you how to express your new knowledge/understanding and how to represent it as well).

You will need to submit research paper topic for approval by no later than the end of third week. You have considerable freedom in choosing a topic, with the exception of the topic must apply directly to this class. The requirement is that you choose a topic that requires academic research not business research and that you submit both your paper topic (which should not contain question) and a full paragraph statement, that statement must contain a research question to be answered or a hypothesis to be tested. Most “why” questions focus more on workplace related issues and business not academic or scholarly research so they seldom are acceptable questions for scholarly research. Simply put your response in the text box.

Submission Instructions:

Please submit your title and a paragraph describing the topic. Remember, the topic must be directly related to this course or the topic will be denied. If the topic is unacceptable, your professor will contact you with further directions.

Leaders are aware of how they show up in everyday life and work. On the one hand, they bring their skills and their styles, including personality styles, to the table. We will see this as what they bring to their worlds. On the other hand, they also bring who they are. This includes their values and beliefs.

As you reflect upon your completed assessment inventories (LTQ, pp 37-39; Skills Inventory pp. 67-69; Leadership Behaviour Questionnaire, pp. 89-91; Myers Briggs,) and your Values (Unit 2)

What are your leadership qualities? (1 Short Paragraph)
How have you applied your qualities and what were the results of your application? (Short Paragraph)
How have your Values influenced the application of your leadership qualities?
Imagine a person who is in a position of authority and lacks internal cohesion. How might this person act while occupying any position of authority? How will this person be perceived by others?