...Course Project: Leadership Project Objective | Content Guidelines | Project Guidelines | Milestones | Grading Rubrics | Best Practices | | Objective | | TCO 5: Given an example of a role model or mentor, such as a community or industry leader, analyze the practices of effective leadership and accountability that contribute to documented success and create an individual plan for employing similar strategies at college and in a career. | | Content Guidelines | | * Define characteristics of an effective leader in your field of study.. * Identify a leader within your field of study who exemplifies positive leadership skills in your field of study. * Indicate your field of study and graduation completion. * Summarize the role of individual accountability as an element of success. * Define personal strengths (based on assessments) and list how they can be used to support success. * Evaluate the roles of critical thinking, leadership, and accountability as critical elements in a personal plan for success. | | Project Guidelines | | There are 2 parts to you Project: The Outline and the PowerPoint Presentation The Outline: * Turn in your outline and reference section in APA format in Week 5 (100 points). * You will need to find appropriate research, create and outline for your project and including a reference section for your project. The reference section should be in APA format. The outline should contain at least three in-text...
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...Global Leadership Concerns for the Future It is my belief that the powerful driving forces that will impact my future business will be online and mobile communication, globalization, attitudes to the environment generational change, rising customer expectations, technologically savvy and many more issues will raise vital challenges for the company. In the world of business, increasing globalization of commerce and trade has created new challenges for business leaders throughout the marketplace (Goldsmith et al, 2003). As a leader my concerns for the future will be first to, understand how both foreign and domestic trade policy will affect a particular business structure. For instance, a Limited Liability Company (LLC) will have different guidelines to follow under Federal Law than a C-corporation, which also will have varied guidelines to follow if conducting business outside the U.S. or with other countries. Look at trends in emerging economies. Many developing countries such as India and China are becoming some of the largest and fastest-growing economies in the world (Ernst & Chrobot-Mason, p. 2011). A leader must be aware of the company's exposure to other cultural concerns. The international relations between a company's country of origin and the other nations we conduct business with are important to the livelihood of the business. Second, my global leadership concerns for the future are diversity training and development; there is not enough. According to Goldsmith...
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...Leadership Project: Wang Cher 1. Give the title of the book and a brief biography about the leader (1/2) page. The legend of Wang Cher written by Zhenwei Zhang narrates the life of Cher Wang from childhood to her fifties. Cher Wang was born on September 14th, 1958, the third child in her big family. Her father, Y.C. Wang, one of Taiwan’s richest men, was the legendary founder of Formosa Plastics, the Taiwanese petrochemical conglomerate that now has about 100,000 employees. Born in a family like this, Cher had the privilege of attending private school in the United States. In 1974 she attended the exclusive College Preparatory School in Oakland, California. After graduating from high school, she attended University of California – Berkeley. Cher, who originally wanted to be a pianist, was first admitted to Berkeley as a music major, but switched gears mid-stream, earning a master’s degree in economics instead. In 1982, Cher cut her teeth in the technology domain at First International Computer, a computer products manufacturing unit presided over by one of her sisters. While working at this company she got the idea for what would become the products produced by HTC. However, it took several years for Cher Wang’s inner entrepreneur to surface. In 1987, she founded VIA Technologies, Inc. In 1997, at the age of 39, she came back to Taiwan, launched HTC along with associates HT Cho and Peter Chou. In 2010, Cher co-founded the ABAC Women’s Forum to identify capacity-building policy...
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...Patti Cake Bakery and Hair Talk Salon / Owed and Operated by Denetra Jackson The person I chose to interview is my sister-in-law Denetra Jackson. She is the owner and operator of Patti Cake Bakery and also Hair Talk Salon. To me she is a great leader and an inspiration to me. Great leaders do many things but I think her most telling characteristic is a natural and authentic ability to inspire the family while maintaining strength with a hint of humility. A great leader are the people who will lead you to success on the battlefield or in the office that you respect. The true reflection of a leader's ability is measured by the empowerment of each individual. Being a boss doesn't necessarily make you a leader nor does being bossy. A leader isn't always the boss. The difference between the two is this: Bosses manage and leaders inspire. Anyone can manage, but not everyone can lead. Great leaders command confidence and trust not by demanding but by encouraging and motivating employees and peers to do well and be the best. Even in the face of defeat, a great leader will tell you to get up and keep fighting. Great leaders know when to admit their missteps and have an equal willingness to learn from them. Denetra operates her business out of Clayton, N.C. My focus is on her baking business because she is slowly transitional into doing it full-time. This would be what our text refers to as Personal Mastery. Personal mastery is about approaching life from a different perspective. Sometimes...
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...Nearly Free.com HR Orientation Project Leadership Assessment U10a1 Project Assignment TS5335 – Project Leadership and Management March 16, 2012 Submitted By Richard Lesh Table of Contents Abstract 3 NearlyFree.com EOLMS Project Summary 4 Project Description 4 Project Scope 4 Team Members 5 Budget 6 Schedule 7 Risks 7 Organizational Assessment 9 Leadership Aspects 9 Project Effectiveness 9 Leadership vs. Management 11 Organizational Leadership Assessment (OLA) and Team Effectiveness Questionnaire (TEQ) 13 Assessing NearlyFree.com using the OLA and TEQ method 14 Leadership Assessment Metrics 15 Traditional Leadership Assessment 15 Using Myers-Briggs for Leadership Assessment 15 360° Feedback Assessment 16 NearlyFree.com Approach 17 Best Practices and Measuring Success 18 Learning Development Best Practices 18 Instructional Design Best Practices 18 Measuring the Project’s Success 20 Effective Project Teams 20 Team Diagnostic Survey (TDS) 20 Conclusion 22 References 24 Appendix A 26 Abstract Successful project outcomes are in large part dependent upon the leadership skills of the project manager. As project management students, we have been taught the management facets of our profession. We have learned how to produce a project’s scope, schedule, and budget. We have learned how to recognize and mitigate potential risks factors. However, leadership skills are often overshadowed...
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...Change Project NUR 492 November 10, 2014 Dr. Christine Markut Change Project Today’s healthcare providers are struggling more than ever to provide high quality care while controlling the costs of healthcare. The demands of an aging population and shortage of medical personnel have brought challenges to the medical office and physicians somehow need to improve their access. Instead of limiting the time patients are able to spend with their physician discussing their medical concerns, why not increase the time and make it more effective for both the patient and the physician. Incorporating GMA’s may allow our physicians to see more patients, provide more care, and increase practice revenue. The patient benefits with increased access to the provider as well as receiving significant education with their peers that suffer from the same medical conditions (Rhee, 2013). This is a win – win situation for the organization and patients. Patients are typically allotted 15 to 30 minutes to discuss their concerns with the physician but with group medical appointments (GMA), patients are actually able to spend up to 90 minutes with their provider. GMA’s offer an alternative structure in the way effective and efficient care is delivered to chronically ill patients (Schmucker, 2006) and it allows greater interaction time with the provider. A GMA will typically involve approximately 8-12 patients while all of the components of individual appointments can be delivered to include: one-on-one...
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...Assignment Two: “MS Project and Team Leadership” Veunanthe Dorlouis Professor: Dr. David Fountaine HRM 517 – Managing Human Resource Projects December 10, 2011 Write a memo that communicates the budget situation to the rest of the team. Memorandum To: Team members of project1 From: Team leader of project1 Date: 12/10/11 Subject: Budget Depletion It has come to my attention that the budget plan for project1 has been depleted quicker than expected. As the team leader of project1, it is my responsibility to make sure that every aspect of project1 stays on tract. I also did some investigation as to which group is over using their budget. Even so my report is not conclusive and I will need to have each team’s report and update to be sure of my findings. Therefore, I am proposing that we all meet together to come up with a plan to rectify this budget depletion situation. I am counting on all of you to help me pull this through, for I cannot fix this alone. I need your full support and corporation to have this situation repair in a speedily fashion. In addition, before we have our meeting, I suggest that each team print out a progress report of your section and see if your budget is on tract. Also, if there is any way to make some budget cut in your section. In that way, when we actually meet your team can share how and where we can repair the budget back on tract. Please keep in mind that failure is not option, we must do our diligent...
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...Each class member is required to develop an individual Leadership Development Plan (LDP) reflecting the results and evaluation of the Self-Assessments and Skill Development exercises completed during this course, leading to a detailed Personal Situation Analysis. The LDP should clearly demonstrate a synthesis of relevant leadership theories explored in this class in the formulation of a Personal Action Plan that includes specific development activities, necessary resources, and target completion date. Guidelines Papers must be 15 or more pages in length, 12 point font, double-spaced, include a cover page, table of contents, introduction, body of the report, summary or conclusion, and reference page. Even though this is not a scientific-type writing assignment, and is mostly creative in nature, references are still very important. At least six authoritative, outside references are required from the Online Library (anonymous authors or web pages are not acceptable). These should be listed on the last page titled "Reference." Appropriate citations are required in the body of the report. All DeVry University policies are in effect including the plagiarism policy. Papers are due during Week 7 of this course. Any questions about this paper may be discussed in the weekly Q & A Discussion topic. This paper is worth 250 total points and will be graded on quality of research topic, quality of paper information, use of citations, grammar, and sentence structure. Milestones ...
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...Effective Leadership Practices: Ted Turner Your Name Capella University Background Ted Turner who was born as Robert Edward Turner III, born on November 19, 1938 in Cincinnati, Ohio, is known as a media mogul, philanthropist, and billionaire two times over. It is well known from many sources that Teds’ father was abusive towards him, when he was young. His father who was bipolar killed himself in 1963, which led to Ted becoming president and CEO of Turner Advertising, which later he changed to Turner Broadcasting (Turner, The Biography.com web site, 2015). Later, Ted went on to create the Cable News Network (CNN), which first aired in 1980. With the profits from CNN, Ted purchased Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). Continuing to grow his company, he later created Cartoon Network, Turner Network Television (TNT), and Turner Classic Movies (TCM). As the leader in television and the internet, Turner Broadcasting was sold to Time Warner for $7.5 billion dollars. Ted did continue to run Time Warner’s cable networks, this included Home Box Office (HBO) and America Online (AOL) leading him to be the media mogul he is known for today (Turner, The Biography.com web site, 2015). What is your chosen leader's definition of leadership? In an interview with Oprah 2015, Ted stated that in order to be a leader you have to be an expert in many areas. Ted is known to be an autocratic leader, very strict, does not share anything with his followers, and takes all the risks...
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...Leadership Scenario BMGT364 March 28, 2014 Abstract This paper explores two leadership theories and two motivational theories and applies each to the case study of Alex and Stephanie. Alex and Stephanie are employees at the same company that has different attitudes about his and her employment. This attitude is directly related to his and her respective managers who practice different styles of leadership and motivation. The paper is a compellation of four students and each student's perspective of the case study as it applies to his or her theory. Each student is given an individual theory and asked to explain the theory in detail and input his or her personal thought regarding the theory and how it applies to the case study of Alex and Stephanie. The theories discussed are the situation and path-goal leadership and expectancy and reinforcement motivation theories. While these are four of the many theories, these are the four which the writers felt applied to the case study. Keywords: leadership theory, motivation theory Leadership Scenario Leadership and motivation are integral parts of management. The successful observations of management to assess or modify his or her style of motivating and leading is the key to reaching the mission and vision statement of the organization. The theories discussed are the situation and path-goal leadership and the expectancy and reinforcement motivational theories. In understanding and analyzing...
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...James Hess COURSE PROJECT PRESENTATION 2) Introduction My field of study My leader Impact that she has made Characteristics of a leader Positive Characteristics of my leader My personal strengths and weakness The conclusion 3) My Field of Study •Business Administration and Accounting •Own my own business. • In 20-25 years I get to retire •The leader in my field I have chosen one as a guide Manisha Thakor (Harvard MBA, CFA) 4) Your Field of Study One chapter closes as another one opens 5) My Leader •Manisha Thakor (Harvard MBA, CFA) •BA from Wellesley •MBA from Harvard Business School •CFA chartered Financial Analyst Chartholder •Is the Founder and CEO of MoneyZen Wealth Management •She sits on the National Board of the Girl Scouts(Thakor,2014) • . 6) My Leader • Co-Author of two books • Blogs (Wage Works,2011) • The cornerstone of her work is something she calls “MoneyZen®,” a joy-based approach to personal finance honoring the core values of simplicity, freedom, and abundance (Thakor,2014) 7) Characteristics of a Leader • Here are some key qualities that every good leader should possess, and learn to emphasize. • Honesty • Ability to Delegate • Communication • Sense of Humor • Confidence • Commitment • Positive Attitude • Creativity • Intuition • Ability to Inspire (Prive, 2012) 8) Characteristics of a Manisha Thakor •Passion on what she is doing •Management •Leadership •Financial Services •Marketing 9) My Leadership Qualities Strengths...
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...of Leadership in Project Management Leadership is defined by Merriam-Webster as the capacity to lead (Merriam-Webster n.d.). How do you lead? Being able to lead is a tough task usually taken on by the most confident, most qualified, most organized or most experienced individual available for the task at hand. In the world of Project Management all the qualities previously listed are helpful to be effective and efficient in accomplishing the project goal. Leadership abilities take on a very important role and are vital to the completion of the project. Leadership per say is not one person running the show; that’s the project manager, but leadership is the cultivation of the people involved in each process. Each phase of a project usually has a person or group that specializes in that area and they take on the leadership role in said area or process. Again I state that leadership is vital and the one(s) in the position need to be task oriented and use the five process group to complete the project. The project manager is an essential factor, because it all begins with that individual. The project manager’s responsibilities are to delegate tasks within each process to the staff based upon their strong points and abilities. The project manager is also responsible for relaying information and the status of the project to management and the administration (Bunin 2009). Acting as a liaison the project manager’s leadership abilities are crucial to the success of the project. ...
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...GM592 Leadership in the 21st Century | Leadership Development Plan | Course Project: Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. The Goal, Requirements, Deficiencies and the Strategies 3.1. My goal and its requirements 3.2. Determined deficiencies and the causes of their perceived causes of having them 3. Strategies to address deficiencies with corresponding time table 4.3. Improving Patience 4.4. Improving Communication 4.5. Improving Organization Skills 4. Conclusion 5. Reference 1. Introduction This paper seeks to prepare a personal development plan in my objective to become a leader in an organization. I will analyze the requirements of the targeted job in relation to my inventory of skills including my strengths and weaknesses in relation to the requirement of a goal in mind for which I am willing to know my deficiencies in terms of skills. I will therefore have to make an action plan on how to correct my deficiencies and to improve on my weaknesses to take advantage of my strengths in attaining a target job that I want to have and quality of a person that I want to happen as a result. 2. The Goal, Requirements, Deficiencies and the Strategies 3.1. My goal and its requirements The goal of this plan is to be able to attain the position of Staffing analyst which requires the following having strong analytical skills and ingenuity to provide logical solutions to nonstandard issues, having...
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...Module 1 Final Project Part 3: Leadership Critique The leadership theories in this course flowed and ended up cascading for me starting with the expectations set by a leader (Pygmalion Effect); J.S. Livingston (2003) influencing the follower’s performance. Lower expectations for a subordinate resulted in their performance being of poor quality whereas higher expectations resulted in better performance. Livingston went on to also highlight that the expectations had to be realistic if they were to be achieved by the subordinate. This leads me to the leadership style that is exhibited by the leader who sets the expectations for his/her followers. A lot of research was done to study the leadership styles of various individuals and the studies revealed that there are a lot of influential factors that determine these leadership styles Bill George et al (2007:130) discovered in their research that a person is...
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...Case Study 2: Project Leadership Roles at TriHealth Yuvonne Edwards Professor Brett Gordon Human Resource Project Management – HRM517 November 4, 2012 Identify the common roles in a human resource project. Then, analyze these roles to typical human resource functions. There are projects of different sizes that have different ways and requirements on how the people are organized. In small project, little organization structure is needed. There might be a primary sponsor, project manager and a project team. But, for large projects, there are more people involved, and it is important that people understand what they are expected to do, and what role people are expected to fill. Common project roles that may be required for any project would be, Analyst, stakeholder, project managers, facilitator and the customer. The Analyst is responsible for ensuring that the requirements of the business clients are captured and documented correctly before a solution is developed and implemented. In some companies, the person might be called Business System Analyst. (Mochal, T.) The stakeholders are the direct beneficiaries of a project or service, and these people play positive roles in a project. One of the first steps in project management planning is the identification of stakeholders. A stakeholder is a person or group of people who can affect or be affected by a given project. Stakeholders can be individuals...
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