Topic 1: Communication and Conflict Resolution Skills
The text provides numerous reasons why good communication skills contribute to effective leadership and details such things as networks, speaking, persuasion, listening, and cross-cultural barriers. The text also shares the leader's role in resolving conflict while explaining five common styles. When comparing your own communication skills and conflict management styles, describe your strength and how it benefits you and identify an area of opportunity and how you would like to further develop in the near future to become a more effective leader.
Topic 2: Fostering Teamwork
The text identifies twelve (12) actions that leaders can take to foster teamwork (summarized in Table 9-1). Select one of these actions that most resonates with you and locate a current events or magazine article from the past year related to a leader doing this successfully.
Write two well-written paragraphs (about 250 words total) regarding the article you select. The first paragraph will summarize the important points of the article in a way that brings clarity and learning to all who read it. The second paragraph will include your analysis of the relevancy and accuracy of the article as well as how you may apply what you learned to your own leadership journey.
Note: Using the ProQuest Newsstand database in Kaplan's Library is a great method to access current and relevant articles.