Assignment:
Final Presentation
Prior to beginning work on this assignment, you are encouraged to review all the required readings in the course and your completed assignments to reflect on your learning.
Create a 15 to 20 slide presentation (not including the title and reference pages) that addresses your personal best leadership experience.
You have two choices for this assignment that account for different levels of professional experience. Below are your two options:
• Option 1: Discuss your personal best experience performing as a leader in an organization.
• Option 2: Discuss your personal best experience following a leader in an organization.
Be sure to incorporate elements from your reading regarding the leadership approach you discuss (i.e., type of leadership) and how it compares to followers' needs, based on the followership theory and other tenets of effective leadership.
Address the areas listed below in your presentation. Keep in mind that it would be very rare that a leader performed exceptionally in every area listed here, so do address these questions in terms of opportunities for improvement, as well.
In your presentation,
• Identify your role in your personal best leadership experience.
• Summarize the organization and the context in which you were either a leader or follower in this experience.
• Evaluate the leadership approach that was used in the experience, with specific attention to the theories and leadership factors explored in this course.
• Analyze the approach to team leadership that was used in the experience, if applicable.
• Critique how the leadership style used influenced relationships with the individuals involved.
• Interpret how your motivation and that of others involved was affected by the leadership approach.
• Analyze how those involved in the experience had their needs supported by leadership, based on the principles of followership.
• Evaluate how diverse people and groups (e.g., women, people from other cultures) were included in the experience by the leader.
• Assess the overall effectiveness of the leadership approach in the experience.
• Identify specific areas for improvement in the leadership approach, based on your learning in this course.
The Final Presentation
• Must be 15 to 20 slides in length (not including title and references slides) and formatted according to APA Style as outlined in the Writing Center's How to Make a PowerPoint Presentation resource.
Required Resources
Text
Northouse, P. G. (2022). Leadership theory and practice (9th ed.). SAGE.
• Chapter: Leadership Ethics
• The full-text version of this ebook is available through the RedShelf platform. This book is a comprehensive text about leadership theory and practices. Chapter will provide information about ethical leadership and culture, and will assist you in your Culture discussion forum,
Ethical Leadership discussion forum, and also provide information that will be helpful in your Final Presentation this week.
Article
Dooley, R. (2003). Four cultures, one company: Achieving corporate excellence through working cultural complexity. Organization Development Journal, 21(2), p.52.
• The full-text version of this article is available through the ProQuest Central database in the University of Arizona Global Campus Library.
This article looks at cultural diversity in organizations, and how leaders need to be prepared for and manage cross-cultural diversity and will assist you in your Culture discussion forum this week.
Recommended Resources
Articles
Alahmad, A. (2010). To be ethical or not to be: An international code of ethics for leadership. Journal of Diversity Management, 5(1), 31-35.
• This article introduces an international code of ethics for leadership, and it may assist you in your Ethical Leadership discussion forum this week. Please note that clicking on this hyperlink will download a file to your computer.
Allio, R. J. (2007). Allio, R. J. (2007). Bad leaders: How they get that way and what to do about them. Strategy & Leadership, 35(3), 12-17.
• The full-text version of this article is available through the ProQuest Central database in the University of Arizona Global Campus Library.
The article explores the reasons why leaders become ineffective, and provides strategies to address their ineffectuality. It may assist you in your Final Presentation this week.
Ciulla, J.B. (2010). Being there: Why leaders should not "fiddle" while Rome burns. Presidential Studies Quarterly, 40(1) 38-56.
• The full-text version of this article is available through the ProQuest Central database in the University of Arizona Global Campus Library.
This article discusses the importance of leaders being present and supportive during crisis situations. It may assist you in your Final Presentation this week.