Leadership in the 21st Century Assignment

JWI 510: Leadership in the 21st Century
Assignment 1
 
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ASSIGNMENT 1: YOUR LEADERSHIP PROFILE Due Week 3, Sunday (10% of final grade)
Leadership is a critical skill in business. Leading effectively requires an understanding of your own unique
leadership style and personality traits. For this assignment, you will reflect on your leadership experiences,
assess your strengths, evaluate your emotional intelligence and DiSC profile, and develop a plan for
mastering your leadership style.
 
Instructions:
 
Write a 4-6 page paper in which you address the following:
 
1. Reflect on your leadership experiences:
a. Describe the leadership aspects of your most recent professional role.
b. Identify and describe 2 key experiences that have impacted you as a leader.
 
2. Assess your leadership strengths:
a. Describe 2 key strengths from Jack Welch’s Foundational Principles (see Winning, chapters 1-4)
and 8 Essential Rules of Leadership as they pertain to your leadership development.
 
3. How do these experiences and strengths relate to aspects of your Emotional Intelligence and
your DiSC profile?
 
4. Develop a plan for mastering your leadership style:
a. Identify 2-3 leadership skills you would like to master in the future.
b. Describe steps you can take to master those skills. How will you measure your success?
Professional Formatting Requirements:
 
Typed, double spaced, professional font (size 10-12), includes headings and subheadings (to
identify main topics and subtopics), with one-inch margins on all sides. See the Sample
Professional Paper under Course Documents for an example.
References must be included and provide accurate information that enables the reader to
locate the original source. Application and analysis of course materials and resources is
expected, and additional research is welcome.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, your name, the professors name, the
course title, and the date.
Before submitting your paper, use Grammarly to check for punctuation and usage errors,
and make the required corrections.
 
 

 
 
JWI 510: Leadership in the 21st Century
Assignment 1
 
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Assignment 1 Rubric
Weight: 10% Assignment 1: Your Leadership Profile
Criteria Unsatisfactory Low Pass Pass High Pass Honors
1. Reflect on
your leadership
experiences.
 
Weight: 15%
Does not or
unsatisfactorily
describes most
recent professional
role and the
leadership and
managerial aspects
of that role.
Additionally, the
student does not
identify and
describe any
leadership
experiences.
Little to no synthesis
of ideas is
demonstrated and
logical reasoning is
not included or
evident.
Partially
describes most
recent
professional role
and the
leadership and
managerial
aspects of that
role.
Additionally, the
student
somewhat
identifies and
describes 1-2 key
leadership
experiences, but
reflections lack
clarity and/or
conciseness.
Satisfactorily
describes most
recent professional
role and the
leadership and
managerial aspects
of that role.
Additionally, the
student partially
identifies and
describes 2 key
leadership
experiences.
Reflections may
lack some clarity
and conciseness
and/or may not be
highly persuasive
or thoroughly
supported.
Fully describes
most recent
professional role
and the leadership
and managerial
aspects of that role.
Additionally, the
student completely
identifies and
describes 2 key
leadership
experiences.
Reflections are
mostly clear,
concise, and well
supported.
Exemplarily
describes most
recent
professional role
and the leadership
and managerial
aspects of that
role in an analytic
way.
Additionally, the
student superbly
identifies and
describes 2 key
leadership
experiences.
Reflections are
clear, concise,
persuasive, and
supported by
sources and
logical reasoning.
 
2. Assess your
leadership
strengths.
 
Weight: 20%
Does not or
unsatisfactorily
describes 2 key
strengths in relation
to leadership
development and
Jack’s 8 Rules.
Little to no synthesis
of ideas is
demonstrated and
logical reasoning is
not included or
evident.
Provides basic
description of 2
key strengths in
relation to
leadership
development and
Jack’s 8 Rules.
The assessment
lacks clarity
and/or
conciseness.
Satisfactorily
describes 2 key
strengths in
relation to your
leadership
development and
Jack’s 8 Rules.
The assessment
may lack some
clarity or
conciseness
and/or may or may
not be thoroughly
supported.
Completely
describes 2 key
strengths in
relation to your
leadership
development and
Jack’s 8 Rules.
The assessment
is clear, concise,
and well
supported.
Exemplarily
describes 2 key
strengths in
relation to your
leadership
development and
Jack’s 8 Rules.
Unique insights
and stance are
clear, concise,
and supported by
course materials
and/or outside
research and
logical reasoning.
 
 
 
 

 
 
JWI 510: Leadership in the 21st Century
Assignment 1
 
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