Leadership Development and Coaching assesses and develops a personal leadership style preference, conflict management methods, and emotional intelligence behaviors. The course places emphasis on research and the leadership actions of diagnosing, communicating, and adapting.
Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:
1. Apply leadership development and coaching skills.
2. Compare criteria of effective leadership styles.
3. Create situational leadership strategies for organizational leaders.
4. Evaluate strategies for effective conflict resolution.
5. Analyze emotional intelligence behaviors in leadership roles.
6. Define strategies that assist leaders to set actionable goals.
7. Demonstrate how research informs decision makers.
Using the Waldorf Online Library and the unit lesson, research three different leadership styles that would be beneficial to you in your current professional role or a role that you strive to achieve. Present your research in a two-page paper indicating each leadership style and covering the following topics:
1.Evaluate potential positive and negative behaviors of each style in your chosen role.
2.Compare and contrast how leaders seek input and make decisions using the different leadership styles.
3.Discuss how the leadership styles would benefit your organizational influence and coaching abilities. You are required to use a minimum of three outside sources for the Unit II Assignment, one of which must come from the Waldorf Online Library. Adhere to APA Style when constructing the Unit II Assignment, including in-text citations and references for all sources that are used. Please note that no abstract is needed. This formal paper example provided by the Waldorf University Writing Center shows this type of formatting.
For this assignment, you will explore conflict management style assessments. Research these online, and complete a conflict management style assessment. After completing the assessment, write a reflection paper discussing what the assessment indicated about your conflict management style. Include information about the following topics in your reflection paper:
Include an introduction explaining what conflict management style the assessment indicated you have.
1.Does the assessment accurately reflect your conflict management actions?
2.What can you learn from this assessment and use in your current position?
3.What is an area of conflict management you can improve upon, and what impact will it have in your future?
4.Explain how conflict management behaviors relate to coaching.
Your assignment must be at least two pages in length and include at least three outside sources, one of which should be the online assessment you took. Adhere to APA Style when creating citations and references for this assignment. APA formatting, however, is not necessary.
Learning your leadership risk-taking capacity is important as leaders begin to set the goals for the organization and the results that are expected. The leader’s leadership style is one way to determine the amount of risk that the leader may be willing to take. For this three-page assignment, research using the Waldorf Online Library a company or leader who has gone through a major change or direction change. Include the following components in your analysis of the company/leader:
1.Complete a risk analysis of the company/leader, and determine how risky the change was.
2.Describe how the leader's style impacted the amount of risk the organization was willing to take on to make the change.
3.Finally, explain how risk tolerance levels are related to achieving the organization's goals and producing results.
Your completed assignment must be at least three pages in length and include at least two outside sources, one of which must come from the Waldorf Online Library. Adhere to APA Style when creating citations and references for this assignment. APA formatting, however, is not necessary.