What are your leadership strengths and areas for improvement specific to your current or desired professional field and role?

Unit 3: Followership and Leadership Assessment

Please download, save, and complete the Leadership and Followership Style Test for Capstone.

Then, complete the eight exercises of the Leadership Assessment Tool Inventory – Assess Your Skills1. (https://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/uzzi/htm/teaching-leadership.htm)

In completing the assessments related to an organization, consider the type of organization in which you might desire to work if you are not working in your desired professional field and role currently. Given the research completed in Units 1 and 2, and your findings from these assessments-Please discuss:

What are your followership strengths and areas for improvement specific to your current or desired professional field and role?
What are your leadership strengths and areas for improvement specific to your current or desired professional field and role?
Explain each finding, its relevance to the professional field, and why it is important. Cite research sources from Units 1 and 2, and the assessments to support your analysis of the above expressed in your own words.

To help you interpret the results, the Leadership and Followership Style test has some interpretive information included. It is important that you recognize that you will need to go back to do some more research based on what you find from these assessments as well. For instance, finding out what the primary and secondary influence strategies you use will then require you to find out more about what they mean so that you can better describe your leadership characteristics.

For the Leadership Assessment Tool Inventory, we do not have the opportunity to obtain scores. However, the results do provide feedback on preferred influence strategies, quartile classifications, and a scoring key that enables you to assess the characteristics associated with each of the tools in the inventory. There is a wealth of information available if you use each of these parts of each tool to perform your self-assessment in addition to performing more research.

Note: A minimum of five scholarly, educational, and professional journal articles published within the last five years AND cited in Units 1 and 2 along with the two provided assessments should be cited in-text and included in references as applicable to each of these objectives.

Discuss whether the vast Middle Eastern oil resources are a curse or a blessing to the nations and the peoples of that region.

Discuss whether the vast Middle Eastern oil resources are a curse or a blessing to the nations and the peoples of that region.

In order to write the paper, read the library sources you find and take notes, determine an alternate perspective in the sources, create a thesis statement for the first paragraph of your paper, then write and cite according to the explanation in Instructions #2.

Discuss what professional skills that are vital for success in your field have you grown in over the course of your program?

Employers have told us they are looking for employees with professional skills in verbal and written communication, understanding of data and how to present it in meaningful ways, critical (and creative) thinking, professionalism, and high ethical standards, not just knowledge of the field.

Please discuss what professional skills that are vital for success in your field have you grown in over the course of your program?

How has your experience studying at Southwestern College Professional Studies assisted you in developing these skills?

What are three steps you will take to ensure you continue to grow in and/or demonstrate these skills in your career? (Sources not required).

Participation Requirements:

Consult the grading rubric in the Faculty & Course Info section for the grading criteria.

Original discussion board posts:

Create a thread for your original post identified with your name.
An average of 350-500 words in length with proper punctuation, capitalization, and grammar.
Include supportive evidence, such as direct applicable experience and expert sources.
Due no later than Wednesday, 11:59 pm, CT
Responses to discussion board posts:

Respond to two peers, minimum (you are expected to continue to engage with peers and instructor beyond these two responses)
Initial Peer responses due Friday, 11:59 pm, CT
Remain engaged in the discussion through Sunday, 11:59 pm, CT

Explain how you would counsel the individual in the scenario you have described.

The required references for this week discuss death, dying, grief, and bereavement.

In your initial post to this discussion:

Identify an issue associated with grief at one developmental stage: childhood, adolescence, emerging adulthood, adulthood, or later adulthood.
Describe a scenario in which an individual is dealing with the issue you identified.
Explain how you would counsel the individual in the scenario you have described.
Provide one Internet resource to help an individual or family deal with death.
In your responses to no fewer than two of your classmates, compare and contrast your respective choices and descriptions of grief-related issues and your recommendations to the individual under examination. Additionally, identify any insights you have gained as a result of reading the responses of others.

What impact do you believe the increasing legalization of marijuana will have upon mental illness?

What impact do you believe the increasing legalization of marijuana will have upon mental illness? With marijuana becoming more readily available, are we likely to see any changes in psychiatric disorders in terms of how and when they present? Will the rates of psychiatric disorders go up, down, or stay the same? What evidence do you have?

Prepare an informal business report for your peers, informing them about your career field in other countries.

-Prepare an informal business report for your peers, informing them about your career field in other countries. This report can compare/contrast other countries with the United States within reasons; the main goal is to educate others on your career field in other countries, not your own.

Identify the strengths and weaknesses of these sources, pointing out limitations of current research and attempting to indicate areas for future research.

Prepare: Prior to beginning work on this assignment, please review this Sample Final Paper GEN499 for additional guidance on the expectations of this assignment.

The topic of your essay needs to be a global societal problem from the following list:

Climate change
Pollution
Religious conflict and violence
Rise of artificial intelligence
Lack of education
Unemployment and lack of economic opportunity
Government accountability and corruption
Food and water security
International drug trafficking
Poverty and income inequality
Reflect: Based on the topic that you have chosen, you will need to use critical thinking skills to thoroughly understand how this topic can be a global societal problem and determine some logical solutions to the problem.

Write: This Final Paper, an argumentative essay, will present research relating the critical thinker to the modern, globalized world. In this assignment, you need to address the items below in separate sections with new headings for each.

In your paper,

Identify the global societal problem within the introductory paragraph.
Conclude with a thesis statement that states your proposed solutions to the problem. (For guidance on how to construct a good introduction paragraph, please review the Introductions & Conclusions (Links to an external site.) from the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.).)
Describe background information on how that problem developed or came into existence.
Show why this is a societal problem.
Provide perspectives from multiple disciplines or populations so that you fully represent what different parts of society have to say about this issue.
Construct an argument supporting your proposed solutions, considering multiple disciplines or populations so that your solution shows that multiple parts of society will benefit from this solution.
Provide evidence from multiple scholarly sources as evidence that your proposed solution is viable.
Interpret statistical data from at least three peer-reviewed scholarly sources within your argument.
Discuss the validity, reliability, and any biases.
Identify the strengths and weaknesses of these sources, pointing out limitations of current research and attempting to indicate areas for future research. (You may even use visual representations such as graphs or charts to explain statistics from sources.)
Evaluate the ethical outcomes that result from your solution.
Provide at least one positive ethical outcome as well as at least one negative ethical outcome that could result from your solution.
Explain at least two ethical issues related to each of those outcomes. (It is important to consider all of society.)
Develop a conclusion for the last paragraphs of the essay, starting with rephrasing your thesis statement and then presenting the major points of the topic and how they support your argument. (For guidance on how to write a good conclusion paragraph, please review the Introductions & Conclusions (Links to an external site.) from the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.).)