Fortune 500 companies often have distinctive leadership styles for different levels of management. Leaders may be in an executive, department director, or team lead position. As a change management consultant, it is important to understand how to communicate the same topic with different levels of management. There will be some leadership styles that benefit from similar communication techniques and some that will require more flexibility. One way to understand different leadership styles is to analyze different communication techniques of leaders.
Continue using the leader you selected in the Wk 3 – Apply: Select a Fortune 500 Leader assignment.
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Write an 875- to 1,225-word analysis about the way your selected Fortune 500 leader uses various communication techniques when interacting with employees based on interviews, videos, articles, etc.
Include the following in your analysis:
- Provide a brief overview of the person’s professional career.
- Describe their interpreted overall leadership style. How did you determine this style?
- Analyze at least 1 obstacle the company faced under this person’s leadership.
- How was it handled?
- What was the outcome of the obstacle?
- What leadership style did they use to overcome it?
- Explain how their interpreted communication techniques inspired or affected their employees.
- Analyze their interpreted conflict management style.
- Explain how feedback was provided by this person to build organizational support.
You may not be able to find specific answers to the questions above. However, you should be able to find examples of things that were said and done and can make inferences about their communication techniques through your research.
Cite all sources according to APA guidelines.
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