16 Jan Review all of your previous Learning

JWI510 Leadership in the 21st Century

Week 2 Discussion

Applying Jack’s 8 Rules of Leadership

In this week’s videos, Jack Welch discusses “What Leaders Do: 8 Essential Rules.”

Share an experience that you have had working in a dysfunctional team. Looking back, how might you have applied at least one of Jack’s Rules to help resolve the issue(s)? Support your answer with information from your DiSC assessment results

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Week 3 Discussion

Enhance Your Emotional Intelligence (EI)

In the article, “Leadership That Gets Results,” and in your lecture notes, the six styles of leadership are explained. Think about your EI and how it guides your leadership style. Identify the leadership style you think is most appropriate for your business. What secondary style might be complementary? Which competencies do you want to improve to enhance your EI? Support your answer with information from your DiSC assessment results.

JWI510 Leadership in the 21st Century

Week 4 Discussion

Reasons for Team Dysfunction

After reading the Blake Sports Apparel case and Lencioni’s, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, share your perspective on what you think Jack might say are the reasons for the dysfunction in each of the teams in the case. Explain your response.

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Week 5 Discussion

Productive Conflict

Reflecting on your professional experience, describe a time when there was damaging conflict on a team of which you were a member. This conflict may have been suppressed, so not directly addressed, or it may have surfaced in a way that was destructive to team effectiveness.

Applying material from this week, the Internet and/or Library research, explain how the conflict could have been better managed by the team and team leader. Consider how your conflict management style, as revealed by the TKI Assessment, played a part in this situation.

JWI510 Leadership in the 21st Century

Week 6 Discussion

Vroom-Yetton Decision Model

Share an experience that you have had with a decision making process at a past or present workplace. What was your role? How were you involved? How would you use the Vroom-Yetton Decision Model to improve the decision making process in your workplace?

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Week 7 Discussion

Lateral Leadership

What opportunities for lateral leadership exist in your current professional role?

After watching this week’s videos and reviewing the course materials, consider how you would improve your approach to getting support for your initiatives in situations where you don’t have management authority.

JWI510 Leadership in the 21st Century

Week 8 Discussion

Inside Amazon

The New York Times article in this week’s readings discusses culture and leadership at Amazon.

Applying leadership concepts that we have covered so far in this course, what is your perspective on how culture drives results at Amazon?

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Week 9 Discussion

Leadership Approach

Find a current business event from the Wall Street Journal that represents a leadership challenge. Now, imagine you have been asked to step into the leadership role to manage the challenge.

Discuss the steps you would take in the first 90 days of your leadership. Explain your approach by applying learning from the lectures, videos, and readings this week, as well as any relevant concepts from earlier in the course.

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Week 10 Discussion

Reflecting on Your Experience

Review all of your previous Learning Journal entries (from Weeks 2, 4, 6, 8). Then answer at least three of the following questions:

Share your best story of a time you applied something you learned in this course at work. What happened? What did you learn?

How have you grown as a leader during this term?

What aspect of your leadership style do you see as an area of improvement? Why?

If someone asked you in an elevator to tell them what leadership is and you only had thirty seconds to answer, what would you say?