Leadership Project Proposal
The proposal is due in class meeting 2; however, you should begin working on it during class meeting 1 as it will require you to conduct initial research on your chosen topic. Specifically, you must complete the steps below
1. Read the Journal of Management Education article titled "Personal Leadership Conundrum". This article is available through the Saint Leo online library. (See the syllabus and the link in the course Resources area for more information about accessing the online library).
2. Identify the leadership conundrum you will look into as you lead the group (what personal issues do you need to address, etc.) . State it in the first person and in the form of a question. See examples of conundrum topics in the Recommendations section below.
3. Explain why you have chosen this conundrum: Why is it of interest to you? How does it relate to your experiences? How does it relate to who you are? In other words, what about yourself and your experience are motivating you to seek the answer to this conundrum?
4. Create a bibliography of at least two peer-reviewed, academic journal articles that deal with the conundrum (see below the Recommendations section for examples of journals that qualify as academic and peer reviewed), at least two periodical articles (newspaper, magazine, website, etc.), and at least two books, stories, myths, parables, movies, poems, or songs that will help you better understand and gain insight into your conundrum.
5. Identify at least two leaders you will interview to gain their insights into your conundrum and explain why you have chosen them to interview regarding your conundrum as you work on guiding your group. Provide the title and contact information for each leader.
6. List between five and seven interview questions you will ask to each leader (the questions should be the same or at least partially the same). The questions should be directly related to the personal conundrum that you are trying to solve in leading the group.
7. For this proposal (and the Final Leadership Paper), you will use the American Psychological Association (APA) formatting guidelines. If you have any questions concerning proper citation procedures, then ask the instructor prior to submitting your work.
Students should submit the Final Leadership Project Paper in APA-style, 10-pages, that includes the following sections (please include the questions):
1. An introduction of what your leadership project encompassed (who did you lead, what did you lead them on, etc?).
2. What your particular "leadership conundrum" was all about (what did the issue focus upon, details,etc.)?
3. A discussion of what the leadership style you used is all about in dealing with the group and why you think that was the style you used (document and relate to the literature out there)?
4. How did you deal with your particular conundrum in leading the group (list references and ideas that might relate to how you handled it)? Did the ideas you gained from the interviews help? Did fixing the conundrum help lead the group or not?
5. A discussion of available data regarding whether the leadership approach you used worked or not (any studies of it from research?).
6. A discussion of how successful the project was and how you might have lead the project more effectively.
7. A discussion of what still needs to be learned about the style you used (studies that might help, or other uses of it that still need to be explored).
8. A summary of all of the above at the end of the paper.
9. A bibliography (not included as part of the 10-page requirement).