In essay format, explain your leadership style, principles, and foundational skills as related to leadership assessment instruments discussed in Chapter 2, using at least four assessments. Produce results of at least four leadership-related assessments, apply those results to your leadership persona, and attach the results to your essay. Based on Self-Assessments of your personality style, leadership style, principles, and foundational skills, devise a plan to improve your weaknesses while leveraging or enhancing your strengths. This essay will consist of 4-5 pages of material

You will submit an essay in which you reflect on the Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership and how they apply to real-life situations. You will complete a reflective essay that will allow you to put into practice the Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership as well as the leadership theories and approaches covered in the course. (Model the way, Insipe a shared vision, challenge the process, enable others to act, encourage the heart).

In this assignment, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following course outcomes:  Assess leadership skills and abilities that apply to interpersonal and intra-organizational situations and effectively influence workplace dynamics  Evaluate leadership decision-making strategies for their effectiveness on the achievement of organizational goals  Analyze various leadership theories and approaches for their ability to enhance organizational effectiveness to improve sustainability  Explain the influence of international and cultural differences on leadership strategies and organizational dynamics in fostering shared visions and purposes.

Prompt You have learned about each of the Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership and, on a weekly basis, have developed a leadership development action plan to improve selected leadership areas. Through the milestone assignments, you have analyzed how you will use the leadership practices to assist with the process of improving your selected areas. Address the following critical elements:  Describe the concept behind each of the five practices with supporting evidence.  Apply each of the five practices to an organization of your choice. o Identify an organization you are currently a leader of or would like to be a leader of in the future. o Identify how many employees you are leading or would feel comfortable leading in the future. o Reflect upon your acquired knowledge of the five practices and write about how the concepts you have learned might be used in the organization you selected with the quantity of employees you selected.  Select two leadership theories or approaches you learned about  and describe how you will apply those theories (with supporting evidence) to the three leadership areas of improvement you selected.

Assignment

Review and research the below case study and write a 3-5 page essay answering the questions provided that relate to the case study. You MUST back up all of your claims with evidence from experts in the field using APA style referencing. You must use a minimum of 3 outside sources for this paper. (For APA information please visit: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/). You will be graded on the content of your answer, the reasoning/argument you make between the theory and the facts of the case study as well as writing (grammar and punctuation).

• How Leaders Emerge During Challenging Times

  Great leaders don’t reach the height of success without facing their share of minor challenges and major crises. In fact, most outstanding leaders would say that working through difficulties made them even better. A truly great leader will rise to the top in troubling times, when difficult decisions are made and decisive action must be taken.

  Outstanding business managers can take a potentially disastrous situation and not only prevent it from becoming worse, but turn it into a positive outcome for the company. A leader uses a variety of leadership traits when taking an organization through turbulence.

  It takes someone with a clear vision and unstoppable fortitude to lead an organization through its worst times, whether they involve economic troubles, public relations nightmares or product failures. The following case study demonstrates how a great leader overcame serious difficulties.

  Case Study #3: Toro

  Toro, the lawn equipment manufacturer, is accustomed to lawsuits, due to the inherent hazards associated with using its machinery. During the late 1980s, the company was facing major financial troubles and put Ken Melrose in place as CEO. One of his first successes was reducing the company’s cost of lawsuits by implementing a new mediation policy, and invoking an important leadership trait: empathy.

  Prior to Melrose’s tenure, Toro faced about 50 lawsuits every year involving serious injuries. He decided to switch to mediation to address product liability claims. This approach included sending a company representative to meet with people injured by Toro products, as well as their families. The goal was to see what went wrong, express the firm’s sympathy and attend to the family’s needs. One result of the new mediation policy was a 95% rate of resolving the company’s claims, along with significant cost savings.

  Great leaders recognize problems and do what it takes to overcome them. They are open and empathetic, and let their values guide their actions. Why is this often an overlooked quality in leaders? Why is in important in good leadership?