The leadership assignment provides students the opportunity to apply their knowledge of leadership by evaluating the skills, values, methods, and performance of someone in a leadership position. Through a personal interview, the student will determine the leader’s strengths and weakness, accomplishments and failures, but, most importantly, how that individual’s approach to leadership conforms or diverges from the model presented by Kouzes and Posner. In a written report, the student will comment on the leader’s compliance with the Kouzes and Posner model, and provide recommendations on how that individual could improve his or her leadership in light of this model. For more information about the final leadership interview project, please navigate to Week 8~Assignments.
You should select someone who is a leader in your major/discipline. [Note: Exceptions to this should be cleared with your professor.] For example, if you are a literature major, you may want to interview a teacher or the leader of a literacy advocacy group; as a government major, you may want to interview a local council member or mayor; as a Christian ministry major, you may want to interview a pastor or local ministry leader. This assignment is designed to help you understand leadership in the field you have chosen; please make every effort to make this assignment relevant to you. Be sure to inform your interviewee that the interview and the paper will be held in strictest confidence and will only be shared with your professor.
You need to obtain approval for your project from your professor. Post a thread in this forum by the end of week 3 providing the following information Make sure you provide all the below information (estimations are fine):
Name of the leader
Company, organization, or group associated with the leader
The leader’s position/title in the company, organization, or group
The size of the group for which the leader is responsible
The number of years in leadership capacity
A brief description of the role and responsibilities of this leader, and how this leader relates to your discipline (major, minor, etc.)
Your chosen writing style (APA, MLA, Turabian)