Assignment:
Select someone in a leadership position at your organization or at a local company where you might seek employment. This individual could be a director, manager, supervisor, or CEO of the organization.
Review the video in the Phoenix Career Guidance SystemTM (Milestone 7.8-Do informational interviews) for tips on interviewing a potential employer through an investigative interview.
Interview an individual who has a leadership role.
Create a 1,050- to 1,400-word company newsletter (formats may vary depending upon company's style; check the internet or Microsoft® Word for templates) by incorporating the below areas:
Develop a profile of this individual that can be submitted to a company's newsletter.
Identify the individual, his or her position within the company, and briefly describe the organization.
Interpret the individual's leadership based on the Five-Factor personality model and offer one or more examples of the management and leadership roles of this individual.
Explain one incident where this individual had to solve a difficult problem or situation because things did not go as planned. What lessons did he or she learn from being able to problem solve, even when what he or she had been taught did not work.