Assignment: An Effective Leader
Question Description
Do you believe you possess the qualities required to be an effective leader? Perhaps you are already in a supervisory position, but as previously stated, appointment does not guarantee leadership skills.
How can you assess your own leadership abilities and behaviors? You can begin by examining your leadership performance in specific areas. You will complete Gallup’s StrengthsFinder assessment during this Discussion. This evaluation will identify your personal strengths, which have been shown to improve motivation, engagement, and academic self-conference. You will discover your top five themes through this assessment, which you can reflect on and use to leverage your talents for maximum success, as well as examine how the results relate to your leadership traits.
To Get Ready:
Visit http://walden.gallup.com to take the Assessment.
Follow the instructions for creating an account using the Guidance Document Resource(s) for the Strengths Finder assessment. Please copy and paste the link into your web browser if the link does not work.
Please keep in mind that this Assessment will take approximately 30 minutes to complete.
When you finish your assessment, you will see your “Top 5 Signature Themes of Talent” on your screen.
Click the Download button to the right of the Signature Theme Report, then print and save the report. We also recommend that you select the Apply tab to review action items.
PLEASE RETAIN YOUR REPORT. Your results will be required for future courses. Gallup Technical Issues: If you experience technical difficulties after registering, please contact the Gallup Education Support team at +1.866-346-4408. From 6:00 p.m., support is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Sunday through Friday, 5:00 p.m. Central Time in the United States.
Consider how the results of your Assessment relate to your leadership characteristics.
BY WEEK 5’S DAY 3
Post a brief description of your StrengthsFinder assessment results. Then, based on the results of your StrengthsFinder assessment, briefly describe two core values, two strengths, and two characteristics that you would like to strengthen. Make your point.
You should proofread your paper. However, do not rely solely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part, and your grade will suffer as a result. Papers with a high number of misspelled words and grammatical errors will be penalized. Before submitting your paper, go over it in silence and then aloud, and make any necessary changes. It is often beneficial to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Uncorrected mistakes are preferable to handwritten corrections.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point typeface (10 to 12 characters per inch). Smaller or compressed type, as well as papers with narrow margins or single spacing, are difficult to read. It is preferable to allow your essay to exceed the recommended number of pages rather than attempting to compress it into fewer pages.
Large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are also unacceptable, waste trees, and will not fool your professor.
The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced, and have a one-inch margin on all four sides of each page. When submitting hard copies, use white paper and print with dark ink. It will be difficult to follow your argument if it is difficult to read your essay.