Assignment
To prepare for the Week 8 Shared Practice, reflect on your professional experience with leaders with whom you have interacted as a follower, colleague, or supervisor. Consider the strengths and weaknesses these professionals had with regard to leadership and management skills. How well did they perform their roles as managers and as leaders?
Then, identify from your professional experience a leader with whom you have interacted as a follower, colleague, or supervisor that matches only one of the following descriptions:
• He or she is a good leader lacking effective managing skills.
• He or she is a good manager lacking effective leadership skills.
• He or she is an effective leader and manager.
• He or she is a neither a good leader nor manager.
Once you have identified a leader from your professional experience that matches one of the descriptions listed above, do the following:
With these thoughts in mind:
Post:
• Without giving the actual name of the leader you have selected, identify his or her strengths and weaknesses as a leader and as a manager. Then distinguish his or her leadership skills from his or her management skills.
• Provide an analysis of the effect he or she had on the business environment where you worked at the time.
Select and share two lessons this experience has taught you about how you will balance leadership and management skills in your current position or when you have the opportunity in future positions.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.