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Essay Instructions: Leaders, Followers, and Situational Factors
Leadership is about more than simply possessing particular traits and characteristics. It also is about how a leader’s traits and characteristics mesh with the values of followers and the complexities of the organizational environment. This might explain why effective leadership is so rare.
In this assignment, you will explore the dynamic interaction among leaders, followers, and situational factors. Then, based on your analysis, you will describe two challenges related to the practice of leadership and explain how leaders might address those challenges.
To prepare for this assignment:
• Focus on leadership behaviors and processes.
• Think about how leader characteristics, follower characteristics, and situational factors influence leadership effectiveness.
• Identify challenges leaders might encounter when engaging in the leadership process and strategies to effectively address those challenges.
The assignment: (1??"2 pages)
• Explain how leader characteristics, follower characteristics, and situational factors influence leadership effectiveness.
• Describe at least two challenges related to the practice of leadership based on your analysis.
• Explain how leaders might address those challenges.
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Essay Instructions: Leader: Jack Welch (the former CEO of GE)


Project Objectives
Conduct an analysis of the leadership characteristics, styles, accomplishments, and/or lack of
accomplishments of a strategic-level leader that interests you, and write a brief paper
summarizing your analysis. The paper should examine this leader and his or her work in a
manner that draws upon the course material.
The leader you select may be the CEO or another C-level leader from an organization that
you’ve worked for or one that you are interested in or familiar with. You are not limited to
traditional business organizations. You may profile the leader of a country, state /
commonwealth, or even a sports organization.
Project Deliverables
? The paper should include three major sections:
o Leader Summary,
o Leadership Critique, and
o Leadership Insights.
? The Leader Summary section should summarizes the:
o Leader’s background and attributes,
o Entity they lead (Business, Country, etc.), and
o The operating context/environment.
? The Leadership Critique section should examine the leader’s approach to providing
leadership, and his/her successes and/or failures using a minimum of three perspectives
from course readings and discussions.
o Readings from the course should be cited and listed in a reference section. You
may also use additional sources that you deem appropriate.
? In the Leadership Insights section you should draw upon course material and offer
your insights on the leadership of this individual. Suggested topics may examine:
o What leadership factors contributed to the rise and/or fall of this individual?
o How would you handle the role differently to increase the likelihood of
success?
o What are the critical take-away lessons?
Project Requirements
? The paper should be approximately 5 double-spaced pages in length not including the
title page and references.
o Please use a 12-point font with 1-inch margins around the edges.
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Essay Instructions: Leaders and leadership have been studied for decades. Theories and models of leadership abound as do perspectives they reflect and processes that each embraces or embodies. As with all theories and models, each represents a particular view or perspective on the subject, none of which can be said to be true in any ultimate sense of the word. Some are supported by more empirical data than others but, again, no one theory or model is agreed upon to be “the one.” As you review the literature on leaders and leadership, consider the data that supports each while also considering which resonate for you and might empower you in your own study and development of leadership qualities and skills.

To prepare for this assignment:
• Bring to mind a societal or profession-related problem/issue ??" the issue here being Domestic Abuse.
• Review Chapters 1??"5 in the online text, The Power of Balance: Transforming Self, Society, and Scientific Inquiry. Consider “the power of balance” as a leadership approach for bringing about social change.
• Review the article “Leadership and the Profession of Counseling: Beliefs and Practices.” Reflect on the important aspects of leadership in the counseling profession.
• Review the article “Transactional and Transformational Leadership: A Constructive/Developmental Analysis.” Focus on the three-stage developmental model of leadership proposed.
• Review the article “Leadership: Current Theories, Research, and Future Directions.” Consider current theories and future directions of perspectives on effective leadership.Think about which of the leadership models, theories, and perspectives has the most empirical data supporting it, which resonate for you personally, and which seem to be a “best fit” for your particular problem or issue.
• Select one leadership theory, model, or perspective to use for this Discussion. Consider how it might be applied to your problem or issue.
*The problem or issue for this assignment is Domestic Abuse


With these thoughts in mind:

Write a brief description of the leadership theory, model, or perspective you selected and explain why you chose it. Then explain how it and its related processes might be applied to your problem or issue. Be specific and use examples while also making explicit your problem or issue in your explanation.

Be sure to support your postings and responses with specific references.

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Essay Instructions: Leader stategies of a nurse without being in a leadership or management position.
Why it is important for a nurse to be actively involved with an interdisciplinary team. Discuss two ways a nurse can take an actice, contributing position within an team. How to create a safe environment in a healthcare setting by applying the 4 characteristics of "a culture of safety"., that was presented in the IHI open school basic modules.