Writing Question

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Part 1

Write an analysis of New Business Realities and Margaret Wheatley’s theories and perspectives on leadership and organizations. There are no page number requirements for this assessment.

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Introduction

Looking at different perspectives for applying theories of leadership allows you to compare and contrast those theories against your own work experience and gives you broader context for considering best practices that you might want to implement in your own career.

The resources for this assessment examine the leadership as well as the use of personal, purpose, and change mastery. These resources can help you become familiar with why a sense of purpose gives meaning to and helps an authentic and congruent leader leverage his or her energy. Out of a sense of purpose, leaders develop the courage to put language around their vision.

The suggested readings also address how a leader adapts to change and why noticing resistance to change helps a leader examine ineffective old patterns. In order to lead others through change, leaders must trust themselves to think simultaneously in the present and in the future. This requires the ability to adapt and deal with ambiguity and anxiety amid unfolding reality.

Preparation

Instructions

Research Margaret Wheatley’s leadership theories using the . You will find useful information in an interview with Margaret Wheatley, “The ‘New Science’ of Leadership.” You will find the reading in .

Write an analysis of Wheatley’s theories and perspectives of leadership and organizations. Address the following in your analysis:

• Identify the main points and theories of leadership reflected in your research.
• Describe examples from your work experience that reflect your research.
• Analyze the New Business Realities relative to Wheatley’s leadership theories from your research.

When referring to sources in your assessment, remember to use proper APA format for your citations and references. In addition, remember to edit and spell check your document before submitting it.

Part 2

Prepare to interview two organizational leaders and write an assessment in which you outline the intended purpose and focus of your interviews, along with the interview questions.

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Introduction

Over the course of your career, you will develop your own theories of leadership that will inform your attitudes and actions. Interviewing leaders after having done some research about leadership allows you to see effective leadership in action through the lens of scholarly research.

The resources provided in this assessment focus on two larger leadership topics: interpersonal and presence leadership and resilience and coaching leadership.

Interpersonal leadership and leading through presence focus on a leader’s ability to develop relationships and synergy and contribute to and leverage his or her own personal power. There is a connection between knowing oneself and being able to listen to and learn from interpersonal feedback. A leader must examine whether he or she is open to other points of view or ways of working or, out of fear, shuts them down. Expressing yourself authentically, listening and appreciating others, allowing others to participate, and serving others are important leadership skills. Very possibly, good leaders develop these skills out of a comfort with their own inner self or being. Most great leaders have the capacity for deep reflection. Many use nature, music, meditation, or prayer to find inspiration and are able to quiet their thoughts and silence their own anxiety.

Resilience and coaching also play a part in leadership effectiveness. In the past, most leaders believed that keeping their work and their life in balance led to better health; however, shifting our attention from time management to energy leadership allows for creating a personalized formula for sustained energy and resilience. Signs of lack of resilience include fatigue, dullness, depression, and life-threatening habits around coffee, cigarettes, alcohol, and obsessive or manic work behavior. Healthy leaders tend to have abundant energy, optimism, vitality, and close intimate and fulfilling relationships as evidence of resilience. Many experienced leaders manage energy in their lives over time. They loosen up and are happier, more involved, and resilient. Coaching is important to ensure growth as a leader. Many leaders pursue reflection by self-coachingbuilding awareness, commitment, and practice. Coaching others provides awareness to avoid curves in the road. Mature leaders feel a responsibility not only to earn a living through authentic self-expression but also to create value by their service to the community.

Overview

For this assessment you will develop an interview plan for the two leaders you plan to interview. This will include a strong rationale (12 full paragraphs), who you plan to interview including their names, titles, and organizations, as well as a listing of at least 810 questions you plan to ask related to leadership. Remember that this is not a career management or “job” interview. Rather, it is a qualitative research project intended to help you learn some of the traits and characteristics of effective leadership.

Preparation

As part of Assessments 3 and 4, you will need to interview two leaders in organizations of your choice. To prepare for these two interviews, complete the following at this time:

• Determine who you want to interview. This can be anyone in a leadership role in either a nonprofit or a for-profit organization. It does not have to be a businessperson or an executive. Leaders of volunteer organizations, churches, schools, or small business owners can work quite well.
• Research and choose an aspect of leadership based on the topics in the Cashman text (personal mastery, purpose mastery, change mastery, resilience mastery and coaching mastery) to use as the focus for your interviews.
• Request and schedule 45-minute interviews with two different leaders at your chosen level. You should conduct the interviews between now and when you begin work on Assessment 3, as you will need to complete the interviews in order to complete Assessments 3 and 4.

Interview Pitch

Write up your interview focus. Your instructor will provide feedback on your interview focus. Include the following information:

• State your intended purpose for the interview. Provide an explanation of the topic and why you chose it.
• Specify at what level of leadership you are interviewing.
• Outline your schedule for both interview sessions. Include the names and titles of the leaders with interview dates and times. If you have not been able to confirm your appointments, please include a report of your progress.
• List the interview questions you plan to use related to your chosen aspect of leadership.
• Edit and spell check your work before submitting.

Conducting Your Interviews

As you conduct your interviews, remember the following:

• At the start of each interview, explain who you are, what you are doing, what leadership mastery you will be exploring in the interview, and how you will use the interview material.
• Clarify with your interviewees whether you have permission to use their names and organizations.
• Take thorough notes or record the interviews (with the permission of the interviewee) so you can refer back to them as you work on Assessments 3 and 4.

Additional Requirements

Your paper should meet the following requirements:

• Written communication: Should be free of errors that detract from the overall message.
• APA formatting: Use current APA style and formatting, paying attention to citations and references. Refer to for citing and referencing tips.
• Length: 23 double-spaced pages, not including the title page or reference page.
• References: None required.
• Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.

Submit this assessment in the assignment area.

Part 3

Based on the interviews you completed in Assessment 2, write a report that describes your interview experiences, summarizes your findings, and analyzes your interviewees’ personal characteristics as they align with effective leadership.

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Introduction

The purpose of this assessment is to consolidate your experience interviewing two leaders and to incorporate what you have learned thus far about the personal characteristics of effective leaders. Your assessment will reflect your insights about integrity, purpose, change, interpersonal skills, and maintaining balance (resilience), and will embody a meaningful leadership story at different levels of an organization’s leadership.

Much of the traditional literature on organizations has been based on Newtonian images of the world as a mechanical operation where the manager’s task is to control outcomes, determine truth, and make sure things are right. New research has challenged many of these underlying assumptions, changing the thinking about organizations and the role of leaders. More emphasis is given to the importance of identity and evolving assumptions, such as the recognition of interconnectedness. The importance of relationship in providing the patterns of order and integrity is being recognized. Living systems are chaotic and constantly adapting, but out of the chaos a new order is created.

Through dialogue, deep listening, and facilitating, leaders help followers create new knowledge and understanding of system patterns that allow a value-guided organization to let go of old patterns and reemerge adapted to a new reality. There is more recognition of the “boundary-less” nature of adaptive systems to their environments. Moreover, there is also an appreciation that values, mission, purpose, relationship, and accessibility of leaders play critical roles in the survival of their systems. Living systems will naturally respond and adapt to their environments, making the leader’s job much more one of empowering, encouraging relationships, and facilitating the conversation about adaptation.

Overview

For this assessment you will report on your two leader interviews. This will include a summarized transcription of the interviews, a comparison and contrast between your two leaders, and key observations.

Preparation

To prepare for this assessment, complete the following:

Interview your two leaders and reflect on what you learned. Take notes or ask for permission to record the interviews for later writing your Personal Project paper. A small handheld recorder or smartphone app can work for this purpose.

Instructions

Execute your plan. Interview two leaders. Write up your notes, including examining interviewees’ personal characteristics and respond to the following:

• What worked?
• What did not work?
• What would you do differently next time?
• What did you learn about interviewing?
• What did you learn about your topic and its potential for helping leaders examine their leadership skills and characteristics?
• How might the alignment to effective leadership be used in your own career progression?
• Summarize interview findings that contribute to effective leadership.

Additional Requirements

Your paper should meet the following requirements:

• Written communication: Should be free of errors that detract from the overall message.
• APA formatting: Use current APA style and formatting, paying attention to citations and references. Refer to for citing and referencing tips.
• Length: 56 double-spaced pages, not including the title page or reference page.
• References: Leader interviews with additional scholarly or professional resources optional.
• Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.

Edit and spell check your work before submitting.

Part 4

Create a 79 page leadership analysis using the narrative and summary of the leadership interviews you conducted.

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Introduction

This assessment gives you the opportunity to synthesize and demonstrate your understanding and experience interviewing leaders and how the leadership characteristics you analyzed relate to leadership theories, the New Business Realities, and the Thinking Habits.

The resources provided in this assessment explore how theory occurs in the human systems arena through culture, values, and ethics. Imagine purpose or direction working like gravity or a magnetic field to organize messy human behavior toward a unifying direction. A leader’s role is to state, clarify, discuss, model, and embody the values and purposes as a way to subtly create order and direction.

The resources in this assessment also address the idea that what you see is what you get, meaning that we create self-fulfilling prophecies and shape reality just by deciding what to measure. It is important for leaders to understand that people support what they help create, and if the leaders want implementation, they have to promote ownership through participation. When leaders begin promoting ownership, they view job descriptions and organization charts differently. Their perspective moves toward a holistic approach to the interactions and connections between managers and employees or between departments. In the end, they serve all stakeholders better.

Overview

For this assessment you will reflect on your two leader interviews and discuss your personal observations in a written paper.

Preparation

To prepare for this assessment, complete the following:

• Review your notes and any recordings from your two leader interviews.
• Reflect on how those interviews apply to what you have been learning from the Cashman text, the New Business Realities and Thinking Habits, as well as your research on whether leaders are born or made.

Instructions

Analysis of Interviews

After you have written the interviews in narrative format and made the necessary adjustments based off of the feedback provided to you in Assessment 4, you will analyze the experience in the context of leadership theory and the common learning themes of the program: New Business Realities and The Thinking Habits of Mind, Heart, and Imagination.

Topics to be addressed in your analysis include the following:

1. : Did the interview reflect the dynamics of transformational change in complex systems in the change mastery questions?
2. : Did the interview encourage professional self-development through conversational reflection in the questions on Personal Mastery?
3. Leadership theory: Summarize the leadership theory that you used to develop your questions. Analyze how the questions and the data support your chosen leadership theories. You might use Servant Leadership, Kevin Cashman, Margaret Wheatley, or articles from the Center for Creative Leadership, Leadership stage theory, from Novatons, and other sources. Demonstrate your understanding of your chosen Mastery (Personal, Purpose, Change, Interpersonal/Being, Resilience, or Coaching). Use examples from your interviews to demonstrate your mastery topic.
4. What did you learn as an interviewer? Write a section on your learning as an interviewer. What seemed to work? What did not work? And what would you do differently next time? How would you change your contract or your explanation of your leadership topic, the medium you chose, or your behavior during the interview, to enhance the quality of your data?
5. Common Learning Themes: Reread the New Business Realities and The Thinking Habits of Mind, Heart, and Imagination. Select one topic from each and discuss its relevance to your experience interviewing leaders.
6. Summary Statement. Think about your experience interviewing leaders at this level. Describe the primary lessons you gained from this experience, the value of interviewing leaders and the impact this approach has on leadership development. Include your recommendations to your organization about the development of leaders at this level and on this mastery topic and the use of interviews to propel personal development.

Additional Requirements

Your paper should meet the following requirements:

• Written communication: Should be free of errors that detract from the overall message.
• APA formatting: Use current APA style and formatting, paying attention to citations and references. Refer to for citing and referencing tips.
• Length: 79 double-spaced pages, not including the title page or reference page.
• References: Leader interviews with additional scholarly or professional resources optional.
• Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.

Edit and spell check your work before submitting.

Part 5

Write a leader guidebook of best practices for new supervisors in your current organization or an organization with which you are familiar.

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Introduction

This assessment provides you with the opportunity to demonstrate a solid theory of leadership in a practical application that you can use in your organization.

The resources provided in this assessment cover both change renewal and chaos. Even though we fear change and long for the comfort of equilibrium, this closed and insulated stance means choosing to wear down and decay. When allowed to grow and evolve, living systems integrate diverse information through open feedback loops. Through self-referencing of values, traditions, aspirations, competency, and culture, systems recreate themselves in similar shapes. A leader’s role is to invite disturbance, to create dangerously, because disturbance leads to disequilibrium and, therefore, growth and resilience.

By choosing to openly engage with change and remembering identity, leaders can increase speed to market and shape consumer preference. Although counterintuitive, the more freedom allowed in a self-organizing system, the more creative and adaptive it can be. Most innovation to the marketplace occurs through the adaptation to a customer’s request by one or two individuals. Information, rather than needing to be managed, needs to be shared and processed to increase awareness and consciousness of complexity and ambiguity. In the absence of information, people make it up. They will make their own meaning.

It seems the leader’s role is to openly invite new and disturbing information and to allow the organization to learn, make sense of, and respond or adapt to a changing environment, trusting self-referencing and stressing long-term identity.

The resources in this assessment also explore the paradox of order and chaoshow, over time and with a perspective toward wholeness, what might appear as chaos begins to build up a repeatable pattern of the strange attractor. In human systems, meaning, purpose, and mission are the organizing principles. Even a small change may result in a big impact on the whole system, and it is sometimes the slow but constant factor that is the unseen danger. So it is a combination of a leader holding tightly to vision and values while allowing individuals the freedom to act.

Imagine it is your job to write a leader guidebook for new supervisors in your current organization or an organization with which you are familiar, based on a leadership theory. Your guide should include the following:

• Descriptions of effective best practices and day-to-day behaviors that leaders should follow for planning, measuring, motivating people, managing change and information, designing jobs, and encouraging relationships.
• Descriptions of ineffective practices that leaders should avoid in order to be successful.
• Explanation of the importance and implications of the leadership theory to the success of the enterprise.
• Examples and explanations for the positions you take.

Additional Requirements

• Length: Your leader guidebook should be double-spaced and long enough to meet the expectations of the assessment and scoring guide criteria.
• Font and size: Use a standard fonteither Times New Roman or Arial. The font size must be 12 point.
• Margins: The paper margins should be 1 inch on each side.
• Components: Include a title page, table of contents, and reference page.
• Formatting: APA format is required for all aspects of your guidebook, including citations and references. Your writing should be well organized and clear. Writing structure, spelling, and grammar should be correct as well.

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