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Leadership Analysis Paper
LEAD 200 students will choose and conduct a leader assessment of a public (not a relative or friend) person. The public person is either historic or currently living. Students must have the person of their analysis approved by the instructor. Here are the requirements of this leader assessment:
1. Use APA style in writing your paper, Times New Roman, 12-pitch font, double spaced, one inch margins top, bottom and sides. Include a cover page but NO abstract. Ensure you include your reference page and in-text citations! Papers without in-text citations will not receive a grade and returned to student to include the proper citations.
2. Students must cite threeprimary sources in the bibliography. A primary source is a book on that person, an article out of an academic journal (Newsweek, US New and World Report, Time, etc. are NOT academic journals) or another written essay on that person. The key is use publications created by authors who directly observed the public figure. Internet articles are usually not primary sources!
3. Students evaluate their leader by analyzing the leader's behaviors using the Five Practices of Effective Leaders by Kouzes and Posner; Students should have approximately one page of analysis for each practice.
4. Students must describe how their leader illustrated one leadership theories studied during the course of this semester. For example, Abraham Lincoln's leadership style used situational leadership by... This analysis should take approximately three quarters of a page for each theory.
5. Speculate on this person's DISC profile, their dominate three strengths from Strengthsfiner, and the four letter personality profile. Provide a summary of what you believe, based on your research, their DISC profile would represent, three strengths that Strengthsfinder may have identified, and their probable personality profile (four letter code) and why. This should take approximately one page.
6. Students should also provide a brief overview and conclusion of their leader. The introduction should include a short personal history of where they were born, where they grew up, challenges in their life, etc. This should be no more than one page for both the introduction and conclusion.
7. The total length of this analysis is six pages of written text, plus or minus one page.
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