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Background: After a relaxing weekend, you come to work, sit down at your desk and open
your email. The following is an email to you from Andrew Rockfish:
I am sending this email to you because of the personal nature of the material contained
within your next assignment. It is incumbent upon all good leaders to assess
continuously their personal leadership skills, style, and approach.
You will be developing a personal relationship building assessment plan. Much like an
annual doctor’s check-up, the goal of the assessment plan is to develop a procedure
for evaluating the status of your personal skills, style, and attitude in your work with
others. Included in the assessment plan is a review of your leadership strengths,
weaknesses, results of leadership assessments, feedback methodology, attitude, and
leadership style.
Relationship building is a dynamic process just as situations change so too can the
people skills needed to address the situation. Periodic review of those skills will benefit
you by noting weaknesses and areas of change or improvement needed in your
behavior.
So, what exactly am I asking you to do that needs confidentiality? Well, your plan is
going to be the result of the following hypothetical evaluation you received after your
first year with GDD. Although the hypothetical evaluation could be much better, we
have found that the results provide trainees the opportunity to reflect upon one’s actual
results and to prepare for personal growth moving forward.
The hypothetical scenario is one in which you were promoted a year ago into a
leadership position. However, the past year has proved to show several issues and the
results are not at all what we were hoping for when we promoted you. Still, experience
has taught us that help starts with an employee taking stock of their personal skills.
Since we believe that you have the potential for being an excellent department head,
we would like to take measures toward your development. Please follow the
instructions below: Instructions:
NOTE: All submitted work is to be your original work (only created and prepared
by you). You may not use any work from another student, the Internet or an
online clearinghouse. You are expected to understand the Academic Dishonesty
and Plagiarism Policy, and know that it is your responsibility to learn about
instructor and general academic expectations with regard to proper citation of
sources as specified in the APA Publication Manual, 6th Ed. (Students are held
accountable for in-text citations and an associated reference list only). Step 1: Preparation for the Assignment
Before you begin writing the report, you will read the following requirements that will
help you meet the writing and APA requirements. Not reading this information will lead
to a lower grade:
Review “How to Analyze a Case Study” under Week 6 Content. You are
expected to use the facts from the case scenario focusing on using this
information to determine opportunities and solve problems.
Read the grading rubric for the assignment. Use the grading rubric while writing
the report to ensure all requirements are met that will lead to the highest possible
grade.
In writing this assignment, you will read and following these tasks:
Third person writing is required. Third person means that there are no words
such as “I, me, my, we, or us” (first person writing), nor is there use of “you or
your” (second person writing). If uncertain how to write in the third person, view
this link: http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/first-second-andthird-person.
Contractions are not used in business writing, so you are NOT to use contraction
in writing this assignment.
You are expected to paraphrase and are NOT to use direct quotes. You are
expected to paraphrase, which can be learned by reviewing this
link: https://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/QPA_paraphrase2.html .
You are responsible for APA only for in-text citations and a reference list. Cite
the page or paragraph number.
You are expected to use the facts from the case scenario paired with the weekly
courses readings to develop the analysis and support the reasoning. No more
than three (3) external resources can be used in completing the
assignment. The expectation is that you provide a robust use of the course
readings. If any material is used from a source document, it must be cited and
referenced with a page or paragraph number. No books can be used as
resource documents. A reference within a reference list cannot exist without an
associated in-text citation and vice versa. Step 2: How to Set Up the Plan
Create a Word or Rich Text Format (RTF) document that is double-spaced, 12-point font. The final product will be between 6-8 pages in length excluding the title page and
reference page and appendix. Write clearly and concisely.
Follow a Report Format.
Create a title page with title, your name, the course, the instructor’s name and
date;
Introduction
Leadership Table (make sure the tables are formatted to fit within the report and
are easy to read and interpret)
Leadership Assessment
Relationship Building Action Plan
Step 3: Leadership Table
In this hypothetical scenario, your review has been completed and the results of the
evaluation as well as feedback from your peers and direct reports are in your
hands. The key to success in this project is to accept that the content in the “GDD
Evaluation Form” as a real assessment of your performance at GDD for the first year’s
work in this position. Although the information within the form is obviously hypothetical,
you must place yourself in the position and address the situation as if it were truly you.
Carefully review the Evaluation Form and Peer/Direct Report Comments: Examine the comments and information from the two documents:
Evaluation Form and Peer/Direct Report Comments. Identify those
statements/comments that relate to the following concepts: your
strengths as a leader, your weaknesses as a leader, communication
skills, personality, emotional IQ, with respect to others - trust,
leadership attitude, leadership style, and vision/strategic goal
implementation.
Complete the Leadership Table with the statements/comments you have
identified. Topic Comment Phrase (s) Strengths as a Leader
Weaknesses as a Leader
Communication Skills
Personality
Emotional IQ
Trust
Leadership Approach
Demonstrated Leadership Style
Vision/Strategic Goal Implementation Using the main topics listed in the table above, write one paragraph for each
topic, relating the identified statements/comments to conclusions that you draw
about your effectiveness as a relationship builder over the past year. Use the
course readings (weeks 1 - 6) to support your conclusions/reasoning. Be
brutally honest with the conclusions that you draw. This is personal and means
your future with GDD is on the line. Step 4: Leadership Assessment
To ensure you have a complete picture of your leadership skills, you will need to take
the leadership assessments listed below. Copy the actual results in the appendix of the
plan. Note: your results are confidential.
Then, write a short summary of the results of each quiz or test. The summary is your
explanation of the results and not a copy/paste of the results.
Jung Personality Typology Test
Emotionally Intelligent Quiz
Communication Skills
Self Esteem Quiz Are you a Leader Test
Leadership Skills
Leadership Style Quizzes Step 5: Relationship Building Action Plan
Now that you have completed the Leadership Assessments, it is time to develop a plan
of action for improvement. Think of the leadership action plan as a way to improve the
relationship-building skills with others and influence the people within the department to
accomplish the work in an efficient manner that meets organizational standards and
satisfies customers. In completing the Action Plan, you will identify the gaps between
the statements/comments from the table and the leadership assessment results. Focus
on the process of how to bring about improvement rather than what you should do.
Consider the steps you will take to resolve the weaknesses you have?
To accomplish the action plan, you will complete the tasks listed below. Be thoughtful in
your responses reflecting upon the input documents (Evaluation Form and Peer/Direct
Report Comments and Leadership Table).
In completing each task, you will formulate a thesis statement and support the
reasoning with rigorous, focused thinking that demonstrates the analytical skills GDD is
looking from you. Read all of the reports and information closely.
Provide a paragraph that explains why people skills are important for a leader to
possess.
Identify and discuss the people skills that are lacking in your relationship with
others as demonstrated in the assessments and feedback received in Step 3.
Explain how the missing or weak people skills are hindering your success at
building relationships with followers.
Explain the significance of the leader-follower relationship to fulfilling the
strategic plan of the leader.
Identify the one critical factor from the facts provided (aside from the
weaknesses in personal skills), that will specifically affect your leader-follower
relationship more than any other factor. Explain how and why this fact will affect
your future if not corrected now.
Provide at least three practical recommendations as to how you can improve the
weak skills that you identified. Step 6: Appendix – comes after the Reference List
Use the appendix to provide the results of each of the leadership assessments.
Make sure to label each leadership assessment.
Attachments: