Effective Leadership
Competency
This competency will allow you to demonstrate what you have learned about effective leadership by creating a plan to successfully run a small business.
Instructions
You have become comfortable with contemporary leadership competencies and feel it is time to open your own small business. As a future business owner, you know that all organizations must be well managed and that effective leadership is at the core of ensuring that a business runs smoothly. Reflect on the following questions and write a 3-5 page report to help you solidify your thinking and describe your plan for running a small business.
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- Refer to the DISC behavioral characteristics you identified for yourself in module 01. How will you use two of these characteristics (i.e., values, culture, mission, and vision) to shape your small business?
- Employees are a business’s greatest asset. Refer to the best leader traits/skills/tactics you identified in module 02. How will you mentor the informal and formal leaders that you hire?
- Identify the leader theory from module 03 that fits you best. How can this leader theory help you align business goals, customer expectations, and employee objectives?
- Refer to the challenges to leading change that you selected in module 04. Identify two of these challenges. How will you address these challenges to minimize risk for your new business?
- Utilizing the facilitative leadership skills you studied in module 05, discuss the three facilitative leadership skills that you think are the most important for your business. How will you incorporate what you learned about facultative leadership into your business so that employees can successfully run meetings and projects?
- Refer to the leadership skills you presented in module 06, as well as the other concepts you’ve studied in the course (e.g., leader traits, leadership theory, and facilitative leadership skills). How will you use these to ensure effective leadership in your small business?
Grading Rubric
| F | F | C | B | A |
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| No Pass | No Pass | Competence | Proficiency | Mastery |
| Not Submitted | No DISC behavior characteristics identified. Shaping the organization plan not included. | DISC behavior characteristics identified. Shaping the organization plan included, but is vague. | DISC behavior characteristics identified. Shaping the organization plan included, but needs more detail. | DISC behavior characteristics identified. Shaping the organization plan is clear and very detailed. |
| Not Submitted | No identification of traits, skills, and tactics. No description of how they will be used to mentor others. | Included only 1-2 of traits/skills/ tactics. Description of how they will be used to mentor others lacks depth. | All three of the traits/skills/tactics were provided. However, the description of how to mentor informal or formal leaders is vague. | All three of the traits/skills/tactics were provided. The description of how to mentor informal or formal leaders is detailed. |
| Not Submitted | Didn’t include Leader theory. Missing alignment of business goals, customer expectations, and employee objectives. | Included Leader theory but missing 1-2 elements of alignment of business goals, customer expectations, and employee objectives. | Included Leader theory and all elements of alignment, business goals, customer expectations, and employee objectives but the elements section is vague. | Included Leader theory and all elements of alignment, business goals, customer expectations, and employee objectives. The elements section is detailed. |
| Not Submitted | Didn’t identify challenges or explain how to address them to minimize risk. | Identified one challenge, but explanation of how to address it to minimize risk was vague. | Identified two challenges, but explanation of how to address them to minimize risk was vague. | Identified two challenges, and explanation of how to address them to minimize risk was clear. |
| Not Submitted | Didn’t identify the top three facilitative leadership skills or how to incorporate them into the business. | Identified 1-2 of the of facilitative leadership skills, but explanation of how to incorporate them into the business was vague. | Identified 3 of the of facilitative leadership skills, but explanation of how to incorporate them into the business was vague. | Identified 3 of the facilitative leadership skills, and explanation of how to incorporate them into the business was detailed. |
| Not Submitted | Didn’t include leadership skills, and concepts from modules not addressed in a plan to ensure small business success. | Included leadership skills, but concepts from modules not addressed in a plan to ensure small business success. | Included leadership skills, but plan to ensure small business success has only limited references to module concepts. | Included leadership skills, and plan to ensure small business success has robust references to module concepts. |
