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Design a plan for protecting yourself from this person's influence. Identify 3 distinct tactics of influence that this person has tried or might try in the future to influence you.

You are required to compile an e-Portfolio over the 6-week block, which is an online representation of your academic and professional accomplishments and achievements. It is a great way to keep all your learning and assessment in one place to highlight your abilities and capabilities as a professional and to demonstrate your achievement of the learning outcomes for the unit.

Lastly, describe the strategies you will use to protect yourself from each of the 3 influence tactics that this person has used or might use on you in the future. Be specific in describing both the specific influence tactics and your strategies for protecting yourself.

Overview To understand the leadership of an organization, it is necessary to understand the individuals in those roles and how they lead. When you are in a leadership role within an organization, you should be familiar with your own leadership style so you know how best to lead others in the organization. Understanding your leadership personality is an important element when it comes to understanding your individual leadership style. Prompt After taking the Big Five personality traits assessment, reflect on the results. Consider how the assessment captured your traits and personality and how the results can be incorporated into your leadership style and approach. What strengths do your personality traits bring to your leadership style, and what are some of your opportunities for improvement? Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria: Results Summary: Summarize your results of the personality assessment and how you think these elements might help or hinder you as a leader. • Describe Results: Explain what elements of your personality assessment results surprised you, if any, and explain how accurate you felt the results were and why. • Leadership Style: Pick two elements of your results ● ● ● Leadership Style: Pick two elements of your results and explain how they impact your leadership style. Importance of Leadership: Describe how leadership impacts organizations and why it is important to understand this impact. What to Submit Your submission should be a 1- to 2-page Word document with 12-point Times New Roman font, double spacing, and one-inch margins.

Describe a community of which you were an active member. Try to relate this community to the four stages of community development as outlined by Peck. Did you experience each stage? If not, why not? What was each one like? How were they similar? How were they different?

Assignment 1: Personal Development Plan • Assessment type: Plan & Reflection? • Word count: • How much the assessment is worth: 50% • Submission: Monday 13.00 UK time Week 6 Instructions As you progress through the development in weeks 1 to 6, you will undertake a range of self-diagnostic tests and also take part in activities and exercises. These have been designed to gain self-awareness about your current personal skill, knowledge and experience levels in a range of professional and Leadership skills areas. At the end of each week, you were asked to reflect on your performance and add to a Personal Development Plan, recording your personal skill development and identifying what and how you will develop your identified skills gaps as you progress towards your career goals. You will also write a short 500-word reflection to accompany the PDP around your journey through the personal skills encountered so far. Some academic referencing should be included in this section about the reflective process you have undertaken. 4 Further information is provided at different points during the module. Please use this only as a basic guide and make sure that you use the assignment criteria grid provided to complete the work by the end of Week 6. Grading Students will be assessed using the following Grading Rubric. PG Generic Assessment Criteria(PDF)/nGUIDE to the COMPLETION of A PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN What is a Personal Development Plan? The aim of creating a personal development plan is to document a process of self-analysis, personal reflection and honest appraisal of your strengths and weaknesses. This should enable you to evaluate the value of the leadership and management training you have received, and to consider your future leadership development. What do I need to do? An example of a PDP included later in this GUIDE, and should be read in conjunction with the requirements outlined below. This task is relatively short, succinct and designed to be helpful in evaluating your leadership development. It enables you to reflect upon your recent experience and to focus on the next stage of your training and development. Creating your PDP has three stages as follows: a. Stage 1 - Personal Analysis. The first stage is designed to analyse your strengths and weaknesses. You will be able to draw heavily upon your career and the outcomes of courses that you may have attended. These should be supplemented by the perceived opportunities that will have been derived from your experience and any threats to your continued success. b. Stage 2 - Setting Goals. This involves setting new and clearly definable goals for yourself which are measurable. The example PDP provides clear guidance on identifying these. You will need to consult your immediate superior (your first reporting officer/line manager)/nthe perceived opportunities that will have been derived from your experience and any Comment threats to your continued success. b. Stage 2 - Setting Goals. This involves setting new and clearly definable goals for yourself which are measurable. The example PDP provides clear guidance on identifying these. You will need to consult your immediate superior (your first reporting officer/line manager) C. Stage 3 - Personal Objectives. This stage involves setting out your personal objectives. These can also be set in context within your civilian employment as shown in the example, which will be helpful in reinforcing its value. Example of a Personal Development Plan Mr A is a 25 year old graduate working for a well-known mobile telecommunications company. He is 2 years into their graduate recruitment programme. He joined the organisation while at university and transferred to his current department following graduation. After a year he was encouraged to enter a managerial leadership and management development programme. He re-joined his department as a junior manager. His employer is supportive and has been reasonably flexible and supportive in making allowances for the additional time off work to complete all the training modules. Once properly qualified and with more experience, he is keen to take on more responsibility and be seconded to another part of the company. The example PDP is set out over the following page/nPart 1 - Personal Analysis Before setting your short medium and long term personal development plans, you should conduct a personal analysis: Eg - What are my strengths and weaknesses? What external opportunities or threats might affect any plans I might make? Strengths My personal administration in the company and basic skills are good and my detailed knowledge is generally sound for my level of training. I gained confidence from proving that I could cope with the pressures of the L and M course, even with sleep depravation. I was assessed to be composed during practical work and provided clear direction. Having the opportunity to lead a team over an extended period of time, I demonstrated that I have the ability to provide clear direction and manage people to achieve specific tasks whilst under pressure. Opportunities Demonstrate to my employer that I have had both structured management and leadership training and Areas for further development It was difficult to maintain the work/life balance and maintain my physical fitness standards during academic studies. As a result I have lost some physical fitness. I need to take more time in planning a task thoroughly before briefing my subordinates. Ie provide the solution not present the problem. My understanding of the estimate planning process is still superficial in places and requires more detail. In order to build my confidence in command I need more experience of team management in different scenarios Threats Balance work and personal commitments./nexperience of leading teams to achieve specific tasks. Also to highlight that I have been exposed to a more structured approach to analysing problems which will assist me in providing clear solutions will be of value to the quality of my work for the company I work for. This activity provides a space for renewal in a hectic business environment to achieve a better work life balance allowing me to be refreshed and more focused at work. I can call on the support of my line manager to give me guidance on personal development. The company formal annual appraisal process will provide a source of guaranteed feedback./nPart 2 - Setting Goals What do I want to learn? Greater depth of knowledge of leading in the business external activities What do I have to do? Complete M and L Course (4 weekends) Training and the company Young Managers (YM) development programme Get to know my department team and build their confidence and trust in me. Identify key training opportunities in the Business Forecast of Events and de- conflict with work and social life. Because of YMs course I may not be able to engage in all business activities Widen my Learn from the more by understanding of observing experienced Write Comment here What support and resources will I need? 1. Regional Training Centre and YM Course Directing Staff. 2. Finding 2 weeks for the YM could be difficult. Advice from my Line Manager and team feedback I will need to discuss and agree my priorities with my Line Manager. Senior colleagues. How will I measure success? 1. Courses Assessment. 2. YM Course Assessment report. 3. Line managers Appraisal Report (LMAP) including mid-year appraisal will assess performance and potential. 1. Formal and informal appraisal. 2. Self-appraisal. 1. Prioritisation of goals forms part of my appraisal process. 2. Ensure that I have attended all the agreed high priority training. Mentoring and performance abbraisal Target date for review? Post 31 Mar report Post 31 Mar report Post 31 Mar report Post 31 Mar/nAchieve core business skills. Build confidence in as a leader/ management. Improve planning/ decision-making skills. weekends. Develop personal fitness programme to improve fitness and stamina. Complete mandatory organisation update training ú.e. CPD Volunteer to lead ad-hoc cross functional projects to build credibility and experience as a leader Gain further experience of business analysis processes. Use this in a working environment to speed up and improve complex decision making Write Comment here Line manager Use training opportunities and revision. Test score. Secure bonus benefits as appropriate Feedback from the team and the project sponsor. Good YMs course report. annually Annual 31 Mar annually End of the project/nPart 3 - Personal Objectives Short Term Goals (next 12 months) Complete Young Managers Course in order to become eligible for engagement in complex business project activities. (I accept that some of these goals may slip into year 2 but no further). Have accountability for a significant cross-functional project at work. Medium Term Goals (next 2-3 years) Be given responsibility for leading and managing a small team of in support of a challenging business project. Engage in supporting some functions of a cross-functional project team which gives me significant business exposure. Longer Term Goals (beyond 3 years) Gain promotion to middle management and gain a support of work colleagues and senior managers. Be given responsibility for managing a large team of direct reports/ a number of teams (Work towards becoming a Head of Department). Write Comment here

Assignment 4 Respond to the following scenario in your paper: You've completed your first year as Chief, and within that time, you've observed most of your personnel at work. Utilizing the leadership skill mix, the planning concept, and various decision-making observations, how can you ascertain who is a leader, a manager, and/or a follower among your supervisory staff? Assignments Assignments are formal, written papers that are designed to help you expand on an important concept(s) and or topic for that week. There are seven Assignments, worth 30 points each. Specific questions are provided for each Assignment. Your paper should cover all particulars of the question(s) and include an example of your understanding of the question(s) in general. Assignments are due to the appropriate Dropbox folder by 11:59 PM CT Sunday of the week assigned. Formal writing means that proper English grammatical, mechanics and spelling rules are expected. The completed Assignment must be submitted as a .doc or .docx file that is a minimum of 300-500 words in length. All references must be cited using in-text citations and a Reference page, following the current APA style guide. Assignments will be submitted to Turnitin; you will be allowed to see your originality reports. Give it 400 words; "In text" Citations; Include at least 1 outside reference. Use provided Textbook excerpts first.

Research Assignment (15%): For this assignment we are using the textbook material to analyze leadership styles - in doing so, we'll fulfill the following Course Learning Requirements (CLRs): CLR 1: Analyze the difference between managers and leaders, in order to identify what skills are needed in specific business situations. CLR2: Identify leadership traits. CRL2: Compare and contrast the effectiveness of leaders. CRL3: Reflect on individual leadership style evaluations. Assignment Overview: In this research assignment you are to find and examine real-life leaders to understand their leadership style and how it contributed to their success. Assignment Instructions Length: Your report is to be a maximum length of 1 and 1/2 single-spaced pages or three double-spaced pages (approximately 750 words). • Format: Your report is to be completed in Microsoft Word (or equivalent) - please do not submit PDF files. Part 1: In this research assignment you are to research and assess real-life leaders. I would recommend that you may wish to consult a site such as www.leadershipgeeks.com as they provide nice short write-ups on a wide range of leaders within the areas of business, military, politics, and sports. (For example, Justin Trudeau has his own write-up on the page at: http://www.leadershipgeeks.com/justin-trudeau- leadership/) Question A: In leadership theory, what are 'followers? Are they the same as fans, customers or subscribers? Question B: Are leaders capable of demonstrating multiple leadership styles?/nFor part 2, select a leader and examine why they were successful: 1) Section #1: Identify a 'business' leader that you feel is worthy of study. (I recommend checking out the leaders in www.leadershipgeeks.com); Review their career and identify some of the challenges that they faced. Note As part of this assignment, you are to utilize business leaders - do not draw upon the following types of leaders: ALGONQUIN Centre for Continuing COLLEGE & • • • Religious or spiritual leaders Any fictional characters (from books, movies, literature, or cartoons) Any cult figures, activists, or anyone advocating questionable practices 2) Section #2: Based on the leader's career, identify a particular challenge that they faced. Briefly describe the challenge that the leader faced. Identify what leadership style the leader utilized to get them through that challenge. (In this context, leadership styles are either autocratic, democratic or laissez-faire). • Explain why you feel that leadership style was utilized. 3) Section #3: Identify who the leader's followers were during this challenge. Also identify what the followers' 'needs' were in terms of leadership during this challenge. 4) Section #4: Explain why you feel that the combination of leadership style and followers' needs allowed the leader to successfully overcome the challenge that they faced.

Your score 26 : 21-27 You lean toward a democratic or participative style of leadership. You tend to set the parameters for the work and have the final say on decisions, but you actively involve your team members in the process. This style can build trust between you and your people, as they'll likely feel engaged and valued. But it's not great in a high-pressure situation that requires a fast turnaround, as it will slow you down. And, if you dislike disagreement or conflict, you might struggle with how people respond to consultation. Read more below. Once you've received your results and read the information on the website, provide a 1-2 page write up your interpretation of the results to address the following: What is your leadership style from the quiz? Does this leadership style complement your personality? If not, what leadership style do you think would (be specific)? Reflect and provide concrete examples on how you have previously incorporated elements of the particular leadership style. Identify and discuss any particular areas that you would like to improve for your leadership skills. Explain how this leadership style will either support or inhibit you in your current (or future) position, industry, and career.

In 2019, when reviewing a list of CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, less than 5% are women-in fact, there are more men named David that are CEOS of Fortune 500 companies than there are women CEOS. As we discussed, when leadership at the executive level is diverse, companies are more profitable. So why aren't more companies making sure their senior team is diverse? Discussion Prompt Take a look at 2019's Fortune 500 list (alternatively use this list of S&P 500 companies) and choose any company that has a CEO who is part of a minority group. This could be Tim Cook at Apple, or Mary Dillon at Ulta, or anyone else of your choosing. Then, go out to that company's website and determine the diversity of that company's senior team (hint: any publicly traded company is likely to list information on their top three executives in the shareholder's section). How did your company do in 2019-did they perform better than in 2018 and 2017? Do they have any space on their careers page dedicated to diversity? Answer these questions in your paper. Write a paragraph about the company's diversity initiatives and if you feel they are benefitting the business.