Category: Leadership

Scenario
Suzan has worked for Organization ABC for one year. During her 30-day review, Suzan received amazing scores
from her supervisor. During her 60-day review, Suzan’s performance was deemed as acceptable, but her ability to
communicate with her colleagues was lacking. During Suzan’s 90-day review, Suzan’s supervisor, at the time,
expressed that her performance needed serious improvements. Unfortunately, Suzan’s supervisor noted the
following:
1. Suzan did not provide her colleagues with messages from customers and vendors.
2. Suzan’s phone skills were ineffective, especially when interacting with customers.
3. Suzan’s temper was a concern and she often raised her voice when she became frustrated.
You have been hired to replace Suzan’s previous supervisor. Between Suzan’s 90-day review and presently (her
annual review), you have noticed that Suzan’s performance still is a problem. Before her departure from the
organization, Suzan’s past supervisor stated, “Suzan is nice; however, she is a horrible communicator. I cannot work
with her, as she is such a challenge to deal with… Good luck, as Suzan is one of the worst employees of
Organization ABC.”
During your first week in your new role as supervisor, you met with Suzan to understand more about her
performance. She stated, “I am a hard worker; however, I only was told what I was doing wrong. I am willing to
learn. Can you help me become the best employee for Organization ABC? I want to succeed in this role.”
As a supervisor, you know that you have various responsibilities. One of your responsibilities is to address
performance deficiencies. Although Suzan was provided with a job descriiption, which included detailed
information about the critical nature of communication in her role, she needs additional support.
Create a plan, specific to Suzan’s needs, detailing how you will
utilize the following to ensure improved performance:
1. Observation and documentation
2. Updates
3. Feedback
4. Resources
5. Reinforcement
For example, when thinking about observation and documentation, what might you do to keep track of Suzan’s
performance? Why? When thinking about updates, how will you keep Suzan updated? Explain and justify your
rationale for each of the five components and why you made the recommendations that you provided.
Your well-written paper should meet the following requirements:
Be 4-6 pages in length, which does not include the title and reference pages, which are never a part of the
content minimum requirements.
Use APA style guidelines.
Support your submission with at least
two scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles.

Write a 2 page information paper on the attached article ( “Leadership in a People First Army by MAJ Gregory T. Isham). The paper must be presented so that it is understood by the reader in a single rapid reading, and is free of errors in substance, organization, style, incorrectness.

Write a 3-4 page paper explaining how Patagonia’s alignment and leadership embody both effective strategic planning and Jesuit leadership principles? Be sure to incorporate our course readings to support your work.
Please format your paper per APA requirements including a title page, proper page numbering, appropriate font and font sizes, and 1” margins. Be sure to include a brief abstract explaining the purpose of the paper.
Your paper should comply with all APA requirements, including but not limited to proper citations and references, page numbering, margins, and use of a title page, abstract, and reference page. The body of your paper alone should meet the page requirements listed above. Please consult your APA Manual for specific information on how to prepare your paper.
Course Text:
Bryson, J. (2018). Strategic planning for public and nonprofit organizations (5th edition). Jossey-Bass.
American Psychological Association. (2020). Publication manual of the American Psychological
Association (7th ed.).

This paper has three parts. Please read the attached leadership research paper instructions and leadership research paper rubric.
Part 1: Literature Review
In this portion of the paper, you will conduct a literature review of the major studies of servant leadership. Note that every line in a literature review must be properly cited.
 You must cite 15 scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles in your literature review section.
 Based upon this literature review, you must develop the major criteria of servant leadership behavior.
 You may include as part of your criteria a brief summary from your individual Biblical Integration Project.
 This part is to be three pages, 12 pt. Times New Roman font, double-spaced, and in the APA current edition.
Part 2 Leadership Interview
You can interview a leader or make up questions and answer yourself as the leader. Please review part 2 instructions and in all requirements.
Part 2 Compare and Contrast: Please read the instructions and include all requirements.
Paper must be 9 pages, not including the title page, abstract page, and reference page.
Paper must be in APA format and use scholarly tone.
Use 15 scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles and the required course reading and presentation. The course book to reference is Blanchard, K. & Broadwell, R. (Eds.). (2018). Servant leadership in action: How you can achieve great relationships and results. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. ISBN: 9781523093960.
Please use some of the course readings and presentations in the course module. You can access the course by logging in using the login: Login details will be available to the assigned writer
Please let me know if you have any questions.

“The 9-10 page paper (excluding the cover page and reference page) will have the appropriate use of APA style and format.
This is a two-part paper: In Part 1, using the model on page 173, Figure 9.1, The Change Agent Compass, you will create a plan to make an organizational change. This change can be within your organization or department, or with an association to which you belong. It can be changing a process or a methodology, a training program, or a mindset/culture. Be sure to define your key stakeholders and who you consider your ‘client’. You will also include how it will affect the individuals involved and the organization as a whole. Because the leader’s knowledge, abilities, and skills are essential to a successful change, include those in your analysis.
Part 2, will be your reflection: Now that you have laid out your plan, where are there gaps in your thinking? What could go wrong that you have not thought about? Lastly, include how you will bring about this change. Feel free to use your discussion question responses (and your classmates’), along with your team assignments, as additional information for your paper.”
The paper should be on an Employee Resource Group for the Company General Dynamics Land Systems. This is a new Group designed to help military veterans. It started on NOV 10, and we provided over $2400 (giftcards from Kroger and a barbeque company) in donations for Thanksgiving meals. Attached is a brief slide of the group (i will attach it tomorrow.) . It is located in Sterling Heights, MI.
I have also attached an example paper.

Week 8 Personal Assignment

Philosophy of Work Thesis
Total Points: 50 points
Due Date: Sunday of Week 8 by 11:59 PM
Instructions
This assignment will help you synthesize your values and beliefs about work to help “clear a path” for the choices you will make throughout your career trajectory. A career trajectory can look like an upside down “V,” a bell or a staircase (Ashe-Edmunds, n.d.). It is the path your jobs and relevant knowledge, skills, and abilities take as you move through and make choices about your career (including choices about the development of new knowledge, skills, and abilities).
Ashe-Edmunds, Sam. (n.d.). What Is a Career Trajectory? Work – Chron.com. Retrieved from http://work.chron.com/career-trajectory-14143.html
For this assignment, you will write a thesis statement with supporting claims about your overall beliefs about work. The thesis statement should include reasons for your position with supporting evidence from materials covered so far in this course or previous leadership courses. Look at what you have been putting into your discussion threads and listing on your vocation map. You are basically turning all of that into a fluid articulation of thoughts. Make your claims (a single statement of opinion or fact), and then give some explanation as to why you think/believe that in relation to your work plan/life.
Make your Teaching Statement brief and well written. 1-2 pages in length
Use a narrative, first-person approach.
Make it specific rather than abstract. Ground/Support your ideas in 1-2 concrete examples, whether experienced or anticipated. This will help the reader and you to better imagine yourself in that position.
Be sincere and unique and humble. Mean what you say.
Revise. Philosophies of work should evolve with you. As you gain more experience both with work and with people, your philosophy will likely adjust to better reflect your current state.
The Philosophy of Work Thesis should include:
Title
No grammar or misspellings
Introductory paragraph with clearly articulated thesis statement
2-3 claims for your claims/reasons for your beliefs about work with supporting evidence
Each claim should be clearly organized into separate paragraphs
Concluding paragraph re-framing each argument and connecting them back to the thesis statement and introduction

What was a big “aha” moment during this course? (What stood out to you over the past 7 weeks as a new thought or a different way of looking at something? What is something significant you learned?)
Just use something from all the papers you have written for me for this course. Thank you.

This reflection paper must answer the following questions: Why is there a need for women to take on leadership roles? What do you hope to gain from this experience? What can you do with the knowledge you gained from this experience to promote change? What personal qualities (e.g., leadership, communication skills, empathy, etc.) have you developed by taking on this leadership role? What impact did you have on the community? What learning occurred for you in this experience? How can you apply this learning? How does the leadership experience relate to the course material? Complete this sentence: Because of my leadership experience, I am….
Papers should be free of grammatical errors and have a 4-page minimum. Papers should be in APA style, typed, double‐spaced, 11 or 12pt font. Keep your writing focused and clear. Leaders present their best work. A professional paper is both well-written and thoughtful.
The name of the nonprofit we are choosing for this experience is: Ummah Giving Circle. Please mention detailed experiences of helping the women there and make it as personal as possible.

Using leadership concepts covered in your course content and textbook, assess and analyze a situation in a community context that you would like to see change. Describe the context, leaders or change agents, the opportunities and constraints, and what leader actions and processes will produce the intended outcome(s). A logic model (the ToC Map template included with your resources is a good one) /visual model that describes the change is REQUIRED as part of your analysis. 5-8 pages, APA style, at least 4 scholarly sources.

Descriiption and Grading Criteria Rubric are posted in the Assignments file under the General tab for the course. A 3-5 page paper examining two theories of your choice to analyze the similarities and differences in the two theories (cover pages are not needed and bibliography pages do not count toward the total). As you will find, many theories seem similar at first glance, but there are differences in how they were developed and how they are practiced. You should demonstrate a solid understanding of these two theories and be able to analytically process the connections or crossovers between the two. You should also note the specific differences. Finally, you need to provide rationale as to why these theories matter and how they might be applied. Support your thoughts with course concepts, terminology, and outside research. In your paper, you should: • Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of two different leadership theories • Draw connections between the two theories • Explain differences between the two theories • Be able to explain at least one situation in how these theories could be applied Papers need to follow standard academic writing expectations (double-spaced, 11-12 point font, proper grammatical structures). You should include at minimum 3 different academic quality references (only one can be the textbook) to support your ideas and cite them appropriately using an academic format such as APA or MLA. You must include a bibliography at the end of the paper, in addition to your in-text citations. Your paper must include an introduction and a conclusion.