Leadership Leader Week 2
Section 1) This week, you are exploring four important and very different approaches in leadership: Skills Approach, Trait Approach, Behavioral approach, and Situational Approach. Select the approach that most interests you to use as the basis for this Discussion.
- Briefly describe the leadership approach that you selected.
- What interests you about this approach?
- What are the strengths of the approach?
- What are the weaknesses of the approach?
- Section 2)
- compose your leadership philosophy.
- Why is having a leadership philosophy significant and useful? How do you plan to use yours? What steps can you take to self-reflect and update your leadership philosophy as you evolve as a leader?
- Present a detailed analysis of your leadership philosophy. Include how your beliefs and insights, which you summarized on the Week 1 Worksheet, are reflected in your leadership philosophy. Support your analysis with scholarly sources, such as course readings and peer-reviewed journal articles.
- How will your leadership philosophy influence the way you lead and the impact you can have on individuals, groups, and organizations?
- Appendix: Append the Week 1 Worksheet document to “Your Leadership Philosophy” paper.
- Note: The Appendix section goes after the References section.
- The suggested length of the body of the paper is 4–5 pages. The title page, reference page, and Appendix are not included as the body of the paper.
- Analyze the qualities of leadership approaches and philosophies
- Compose a personal leadership philosophy
- Analyze the impact of a leadership philosophy on individuals, groups, and organizations