Assignment+Instructions

For Week 4 click on the link entitled Leadership Skills Worksheet. You can copy and paste this into a document if you would like to better work with this. For this week you will be assigned to collaborative groups which I will post to the General Announcements.  Once you know of your group members, you must connect via email or through our course site (Virtual Lounge or Q & A) and decide which of the two WIKI sites provided under resources you will use. You will use a WIKI for this project and invite me to your group as well so I have oversight.  Within the Leadership Skills Worksheet you will find 12 skills needed to be a solid leader. As a collaborative group, you will write the 12 skills out and begin to rank them in terms of importance. The ranking itself might require a bit of debate. Once you have ranked them you will utilize the course texts (Lambert Chapters 3, 4, & 5) to justify their rankings. You will also provide ‘real world’ situations that support your thinking (as a team). Between your prior knowledge, the text and ‘real world’ situations the rankings will be supported.  The trick here will be when several of you are in different occupations or settings. For instance a person in the health industry might feel that certain leadership skills are more desirable and more needed than a person working in education.  At the end of the week, you will separately email the instructor with a peer-evaluation of each of your colleagues. You will assign each of your colleagues a grade based on a 1-7 scale with 7 being the highest and 1 being the lowest. Justify your evaluation based upon how each of your colleagues has (a) effort given forth in the project, (b) leadership qualities within the group and (c) ideas or creativity presented.
 * Week 4 **