PART 1
Apply leadership strategies to communicate with your team and inspire them either through an email, a brochure, or a one-minute speech.
You know strong leadership when you see it, but can you say why a certain leader is great and another lacking?
The path to understanding leadership can be a mix of trusting your instincts and understanding principles and practices common to effective leaders. You will look at the basics and examples of great leaders and leadership. In this course, you will gain a deeper understanding of the role of leadership, including communication skills.
You will also explore Kouzes and Posner’s Five Practices of Effective Leadership, focusing on inspiring a shared vision. This concept involves the leader imagining the future and encouraging their team members to follow.
Great leaders know how to motivate and inspire their teams.
For this assessment, use the concepts presented in the Lessons in Leadership activity to identify a leadership style and shape the inspirational practices and behaviors you will use to communicate your vision and motivate your team.
Step 1: Choose a topic from the following choices:
- Establishing a Positive Work Environment.
- Leading Remote Teams.
- Celebrating Success.
- Encouraging Open Communication.
Step 2: Choose a format from the following choices:
- Email to Your Team:
- Length: 1 page (excluding reference page), single-spaced, Arial 12-point font.
- Template: .
- Include a reference page.
- Resource: Visit to review the following resources that provide guidance on formatting business letters and professional emails:
- Format of a Formal letter.
- 5 Tips for Writing Professional Emails.
- Brochure:
- Length: 2 pages, excluding your title page and reference page, Arial 12-point font.
- Template: .
- Resource: Visit to review the following resource that provides guidance on creating a brochure:
- How to Make a Brochure in Microsoft Word.
- One-Minute Speech:
- Length: 1 minute.
- Template: .
- Resources:
- For guidance on recording your speech, review or .
- Visit to review the following resources that provide guidance on creating and recording presentations:
- Basic Tasks for Creating a PowerPoint Presentation.
- Record a Presentation.
- Tips:
- Write out your speech and practice with a timer.
- Verbally give credit to your sources by using phrases such as according to so-and-so, so-and-so says, or so-and-so found.
The purpose of this assessment is to use what youve learned to share your vision and inspire your team.
In your assessment, complete the following:
- Choose the leadership style you will use.
- Use your leadership style in your communication (democratic, transactional, transformational, coaching, et cetera). Be consistent.
- Include inspirational leadership practices and behaviors.
Notes:
If you are submitting the email or brochure, Word is the preferred file format. You can upload it as your submission.
Your assessment should meet the following submission requirements:
- Communication: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly and professional. Your assessment should be:
- Clear and logically organized.
- Free of errors in grammar and writing.
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:
- Competency 1: Apply knowledge of leadership traits and styles to real world scenarios.
- Use a consistent leadership style in communication to inspire action.
- Competency 2: Use accepted leadership practices and behaviors.
- Utilize inspirational leadership practices to inspire action.
- Competency 3: Communicate professionally using professional standards embracing diversity.
- The writing is clear and organized with very few grammatical mistakes.
PART 2
- Write a paper or record a presentation on leading your team through change.
For this assessment, you will focus on how leaders encourage taking risks and pursuing opportunities. A lot can be told about a leader by the risks they take and the opportunities they seize.You will also explore how leaders promote collaboration and empower their people. How do you get people to work together for a shared vision? Is it a trick? A carrot and stick? Getting people to drink the Kool-Aid? There are many ways, but without giving others the power to act, a leader would end up doing everything themselves.You will be introduced to Kouzes and Posner’s (2023) final practices of effective leadership, which they call encouraging the heart. Effective leaders realize that employees should be recognized for a job well done. While some people prefer public praise and others prefer personal recognition, most employees want to be recognized in some way
References
Kouzes, J. M., & Posner, B. Z. (2023). The leadership challenge: How to make extraordinary things happen in organizations (7th ed.). Wiley.
Review the Applying Leadership Styles activity to practice the situational leadership skills that you will need to complete this assessment. Refer to the list of leadership styles and traits to support your work.
Step 1: Choose a topic from the following list:
- Technology/Software Updates.
- Organization Restructure.
- New Product Launch.
Step 2: Choose a format from the following list:
- Academic Paper:
- Length: 24-pages double-spaced page, excluding your title page and references page, Arial 12 pt. font.
- Template: .
- Resources: Visit the following resources for guidance on academic writing and APA style:
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- Tip: Be sure to provide citations for resources within your assessment.
- Speech:
- Length: 24 minutes.
- Template: .
- Resources:
- For guidance on recording your speech, review or .
- Visit to review the following resources that provide guidance on creating and recording presentations:
- Basic Tasks for Creating a PowerPoint Presentation.
- Record a Presentation.
- Tips:
- Write out your speech and practice with a timer.
- Verbally give credit to your sources by using phrases such as according to so-and-so, so-and-so says, or so-and-so found.
Step 3. Support your points.
- Use your textbook to support your points. Cite your textbook at least once in the assessment.
Citation guidance:
- Visit from the Writing Center for guidance on how to cite sources in your writing. Scroll down to In-Text Citation Formatting.”
- Watch Getting Started with In-Text Citations for a short interactive video that provides examples.
- Tip: Your template has the References page completed; use that reference to help with your in-text citation.
- Reference: Kouzes, J. M., & Posner, B. Z. (2023). The leadership challenge: How to make extraordinary things happen in organizations (7th ed.). Wiley.
- In-text citation: (Kouzes & Posner, 2023, pp. xx).
The purpose of this assessment is to use what youve learned to share how your leadership style and traits can lead your team through change while encouraging collaboration and empowering your team.In your assessment, complete the following:
- Describe an organizational change needed to help collaboration and empowerment.
- In addition, describe how your team will identify improvements in the environment.
- Describe the leadership style and traits needed to address risk associated with the specific organizational change.
- Describe how your personal leadership traits can be used for the needed change.
- Include examples of leadership practices to address risk associated with the specific organizational change.
- Describe how to encourage collaboration resulting in the empowerment of your team.
- Include specific examples of approaches you will take to encourage collaboration.
- Describe how to encourage employee engagement with your team.
- Include specific examples of how you would integrate diversity, engage employees, or build trust.
Notes:
- If submitting a paper, Word is the preferred file format to upload as your submission.
Your assessment should meet the following submission requirements:
- Communication: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly and professional. Your assessment should be:
- Clear and logically organized.
- Free of errors in grammar and writing.
- Validation and support: Use your textbook to support your points. Cite your textbook at least once in the assessment.
- APA format: Use APA formatting when appropriate. Refer to the Campus page for guidance.
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:
- Competency 1: Apply knowledge of leadership traits and styles to real world scenarios.
- Describe the leadership style and traits needed to address risk associated with the specific organizational change.
- Competency 2: Use accepted leadership practices and behaviors.
- Describe an organizational change needed to help collaboration and empowerment.
- Describe how to encourage collaboration resulting in the empowerment of a team.
- Describe how to encourage employee engagement in a team.
- Competency 3: Communicate professionally using professional standards embracing diversity.
- The writing is clear and organized with very few grammatical mistakes.
