Leadership and Followership

Overview For this Performance Task Assessment, you will develop a presentation, geared toward leaders, on the important interplay of leaders and followers within an organization and will highlight specific strategies for effective leadership and followership. Additionally, you will reflect on personal qualities you would like to improve to become a more effective leader and follower. Assessment Submission Length: 1015 PowerPoint slides, plus an accompanying written script Instructions To complete this Assessment, do the following: Review, as needed, the following resource, which includes links to helpful information about using Microsoft PowerPoint: OASIS: Academic Skills Center. (n.d.). Microsoft PowerPoint. Walden University. https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/academic-skills-center/microsoft-office/powerpoint In the DL002_Assessment_Template_Part1 file, complete your work on the PowerPoint slide deck, using your Pre-Assessment submission as a starting point and incorporating any feedback as appropriate. Download the DL002_Assessment_Template_Part2 (Word document), which you will use to create the script that accompanies your PowerPoint presentation. Be sure to adhere to the indicated assignment length. Before submitting your Assessment, carefully review the rubric. This is the same rubric the assessor will use to evaluate your submission and it provides detailed criteria describing how to achieve or master the Competency. Many students find that understanding the requirements of the Assessment and the rubric criteria help them direct their focus and use their time most productively. Important Information on Interpreting the Assessment Rubric (click to expand) All submissions must follow the conventions of scholarly writing. Properly formatted APA citations and references must be provided where appropriate. Submissions that do not meet these expectations will be returned without scoring. This Assessment requires submission of a 10- to 15-slide PowerPoint presentation, as well as a Word document that contains a written script to accompany the presentation. Save both of these files as DL002_firstinitial_lastname, one for each file type (for example DL002_J_Smith.pptx and DL002_J_Smith.docx). You may submit a draft of your assignment to the Turnitin Draft Check area to check for authenticity. When you are ready to upload your completed Assessment, use the Assessment tab on the top navigation menu. Important Note: As a student taking this Competency, you agree that you may be required to submit your Assessment for textual similarity review to Turnitin.com for the detection of plagiarism. All submitted Assessment materials will be included as source documents in the Turnitin.com reference database solely for the purpose of detecting plagiarism of such materials. Use of the Turnitin.com service is subject to the Usage Policy posted on the Turnitin.com site. Leadership and Followership Presentation An important part of mastering any topic in social science (and leadership is such a topic) is being able to explain how and why an observed practice, or set of witnessed behaviors and interactions among people, led to intended outcomes or not. The key to your evaluation will be to use relevant documented best practices and theoretical frameworks about leadership and followership to support your evaluations. For example, it is one thing to have an opinion about why someone is an effective leader; it is quite another to be able to explain how and why they are effective, using leadership knowledge to support your reasoning. For this Performance Task Assessment, you have been asked by your manager to present at this years annual Dynamic Leadership conference. The subject of your presentation is on followership and how it contributes to effective leadership in a business context. For this presentation, you will need to provide a PowerPoint slide deck along with a written script that you would use to give your presentation. The presentation is scheduled to be 30 minutes in length. The PowerPoint deck should be professional looking, using a business-appropriate design. As you prepare your presentation and script, be sure to cover all of the following items in your presentation, including the incorporation of references to appropriate academic sources, such as those found in the learning resources from this Competency or those in the Walden Library. Click each of the items below for more information on this Assessment. Part 1: Followership Defined (approximately 35 slides) Identify the qualities and behaviors of followers who contribute to the success of an organization. Using at least one example from your professional life, analyze how leaders can draw value from their followers. Summarize the responsibilities of followers in an age in which the complexities of leadership and pace of change are ever increasing. Part 2: The Leader-Follower Interaction (approximately 35 slides) Analyze how followers can influence the effectiveness or ineffectiveness of leaders. Hint: Your analysis should consider how followers empower or enable leaders behaviors (for good or bad). Illustrate how followers can effectively communicate and collaborate with a leader whose style is not consistent with what they desire or with a leader they do not admire. Propose at least three strategies for how leaders can better empower and support followers in meeting their goals. Part 3: Traits of Leadership and Followership (approximately 45 slides) Examine how personal traits influence how one leads and how one follows. Draw on professional and personal experience to provide examples. Analyze how a follower can contribute to effective leadership in an organization. Provide at least one example to support your analysis. Analyze how a leader can encourage effective followership in an organization. Provide at least one example to support your analysis. Identify at least one personal trait you would like to improve upon to become a more effective leader and at least one trait you would like to improve upon to become a more effective follower. Explain why these improvements would be a benefit to you and to an organization. This Assessment has been identified as one that could be added to your MBA Portfolio to demonstrate to current or prospective employers the skills and knowledge you have attained in your MBA program. Once you have completed this Assessment and incorporated any feedback from your Faculty SME, you may choose to upload the final artifact to your MBA Portfolio in the MBA Hub at the Career Planning and Development Center. Important Information: Build your e-portfolio using the SkillsFirst Portfolios module. Follow the MBA Portfolio Instructions and the steps in the MBA Portfolio Guide to create, share, and update your MBA portfolio sections and document your success.