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JWI510 Leadership in the 21st Century

Week 3 Assignment

ASSIGNMENT
1: YOUR LEADERSHIP PROFILE

“If
your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more,
you are a leader.”

John Quincy
Adams

Leadership is
a critical skill in business. Leading effectively requires an understanding of
your own

unique
leadership style and personality traits.

For this
assignment, you will reflect on your leadership experiences, assess your
strengths, evaluate your

emotional
intelligence and DiSC profile, and develop a plan for mastering your leadership
style.

Instructions:

Write a 4-5
page paper in which you address the following:

1. Reflect
on your leadership experiences:

a. Describe
the leadership and managerial aspects of your most recent professional role

b. Identify
and describe 2 key experiences that have impacted you as a leader

2. Assess
your leadership strengths:

a. Describe
2 key strengths, from Jack Welch’s Foundational Principles and 8 Essential
Rules of

Leadership
as they pertain to your leadership development

3. How do
these experiences and strengths relate to aspects of your Emotional
Intelligence and

your DiSC
profile?

4. Develop
a plan for mastering your leadership style:

a. Identify
2-3 leadership skills you would like to master in the future

b. Describe
steps you can take to master those skills. How will you measure your success?

Professional
Formatting Requirements:

• Typed,
double spaced, professional font (size 10-12), includes headings and
subheadings(to

identify
main topics and subtopics), with one-inch margins on all sides. See the Sample

Professional
Paper under Course Documents for an example.

•
References must be included and provide accurate information that enables the
reader to

locate the
original source. Application and analysis of course materials and resources is

expected,
and additional research is welcome.

• Include a
cover page containing the title of the assignment, your name, the professor’s
name, the

course
title, and the date.

• The
paper’s length is 4 to 6 pages, excluding your Cover page and Reference list.
You may

exceed 6
pages but be sure that the extra length is not redundant and adds value to your

reflections

JWI510 Leadership in the 21st Century

Week 7 Assignment

PART 1

CASE STUDY

“A
good leader…is someone who has energy, can articulate a vision and inspire
others to perform, makes

the tough
decisions, has the skill to deliver, and never fails to deliver the
financials.”

Jack Welch

Leadership
comes with many challenges. You need to motivate, inspire and encourage your
teams to work toward common goals. This assignment offers you an opportunity to
apply what you have been learning about leadership to a complex business
situation. It is designed to help you synthesize the leadership practices we have
studied so far into informed recommendations that address the challenges
presented in the case.

For this
two-part assignment, you will evaluate how leaders can ensure collaboration and
cohesiveness among all team members. You will also demonstrate your ability to
lead (e.g. appraise, evaluate, interpret, etc.), through this case analysis. Be
sure to consider suggestions from your reading of Lencioni’s, The Five Dysfunctions
of a Team. Additionally, this case
analysis should incorporate concepts and examples from the course lectures,
discussions, videos, readings, and DiSC and TKI results.

NOTE:
Assignment 2 is broken down into two parts. You will submit Part 1 (Problem and
Analysis) of this

assignment
in Week 7 and Part 2 (Executive Summary, Revisions to the Problem and Analysis,
and

Recommendations)
in Week 10.

Part 1:
Problem and Analysis

During
Weeks 4-6, we have explored a number of leadership topics from the perspectives
of both team members and team leaders. This assignment will help to integrate
these topics with the materials from Weeks 1-3 of the course. As you work on
the assignment, be sure to make use of all that we have learned from Week 1
through Week 7, e.g., personal leadership style, the DiSC, TKI, etc.

Instructions

1. Read the
case, Blake Sports Apparel and Switch Activewear: Bringing the Executive Team
Together

2. Write a
4 – 6 page paper to address the following:

a. Risk to
the Business: Despite the success of the business and the talent of individual
team members, the Executive Team at Blake Sports Apparel suffers from a number
of dysfunctions that are impacting the business. What are the biggest risks
this business is currently facing? Explain your position and cite specific
examples from the case to illustrate the potential impact of these risks

b.
Successes: It’s a natural tendency when exploring team dysfunction to focus
only on the negative; however, Blake Sports Apparel and this Executive Team
have a long track record of wins and high performance. Summarize the key
successes and positive characteristics of this organization. What are the
strengths of the Executive Team?

c.
Analysis: Explore the possible causes for the team’s dysfunction, using the
questions below to guide you. Include specific examples from the case to
support your analysis.

i. How
might the company’s early entrepreneurial success have sown the seeds for dysfunction
as the business grew?

ii. How
would you characterize the level of trust, communication and information sharing
among this group?

iii. In
what ways do alignment (or lack of alignment) around goals and incentives impact
team performance and cohesion?

iv. In what
ways are the current team structures and decision making processes impacting
the business?

v. In what
ways do CEO Cameron Barker’s leadership style and history with the company
contribute to the team’s dysfunction?

Professional
Formatting Requirements:

• Typed,
double spaced professional font (size 10-12), includes headings and
subheadings, with one-inch margins on all sides. See the Sample Professional
Paper under Course Documents for an example.

•
References must be included and provide accurate information that enables the
reader to locate the original source. Application and analysis of course
materials and resources is expected, and additional research is welcome.

• Include a
cover page containing the title of the assignment, your name, the professor’s
name, the course title, and the date.

• The
paper’s length is 4 to 6 pages, excluding your Cover page and Reference list

JWI510 Leadership in the 21st Century

Week 7 Assignment

PART 2

CASE STUDY

Executive
Summary, Revisions, and Recommendations

During
Weeks 7-10, we have explored a number of leadership topics from the perspective
of leading in organizations. The assignment will help you integrate what you
have been working on throughout the course. Make use of all you have learned
since Week 1, including your personal leadership style, the DiSC, TKI, etc. You
will need to formulate your recommendations with a consideration of the time
and resource constraints described in the case that have the potential to
undermine the trust the team leader is seeking to build.

For this
assignment, you will continue your analysis of the Blake Sports Apparel case by
providing an Executive Summary, revisions to the problem and analysis, and
recommendations for improving teamwork and resolving conflicts more
effectively. You will also have the opportunity to improve Part 1 (Problem and
Analysis) based on the feedback that you received from your instructor.

NOTE: Since
this component of the assignment is a continuation of the work you completed
for Part 1, you should continue your work in the same document that you
submitted for Part 1 (Problem and Analysis). Even though the Executive Summary comes
first in the paper, it is often written last since it presents a synopsis (or
overview) of the entire paper.

Instructions

1. Read the
Blake Sports Apparel and Switch Activewear: Bringing the Executive Team
Together case again.

2. Write a
paper that addresses all of the following:

a.
Executive Summary: Briefly summarize key points of the paper:

• What is
the problem or issue?

• What are
the possible causes of the issue or problem?

• What
solutions do you recommend?

b. Problem
and Analysis from Part 1 of this assignment: Implement any feedback that you received
from your instructor.

c.
Recommendations: Acting as a leadership consultant to Cameron Barker (and applying
principles and practices from this course), what recommendations would you make
to improve teamwork and resolve conflicts more effectively? Use the questions below
to guide you:

• What can
Barker do to increase trust and improve communication?

• How can
Barker incentivize the teams to improve alignment and meet their collective
goals?

• What can
be done to make team meetings more effective?

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• Should
Barker change the teams either in terms of team leadership and members and/or
or overall structure? Explain.

• What, if
anything, does Barker need to change about his own leadership style and his
behaviors in order to make his Executive Team more effective?

• What
additional actions should Barker take to improve team dynamics and performance
and ensure that both Blake Sports Apparel and Switch Activewear improve
collaboration and thrive in their market segment?

Professional
Formatting Requirements

• Typed,
double spaced professional font (size 10-12), includes headings and
subheadings, with one-inch margins on all sides. See the Sample Professional
Paper under Course Documents for an example.

•
References must be included and provide accurate information that enables the
reader to locate the original source. Application and analysis of course
materials and resources is expected, and additional research is welcome.

• Include a
cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student name(s), the
professor’s name, the course title, and the date.

• The
paper’s length is 8 to 10 pages, excluding your Cover page and Reference list.