You know strong leadership when you see it, but can you say why a certain leader is great and another lacking?
The path to understanding leadership can be a mix of trusting your instincts and understanding principles and practices common to effective leaders. You will look at the basics and examples of great leaders and leadership. In this course, you will gain a deeper understanding of the role of leadership, including communication skills.
You will also explore Kouzes and Posner’s Five Practices of Effective Leadership, focusing on inspiring a shared vision. This concept involves the leader imagining the future and encouraging their team members to follow.
Step 1: Choose a topic from the following choices:
- Establishing a Positive Work Environment.
- Leading Remote Teams.
- Celebrating Success.
- Encouraging Open Communication.
Step 2: Choose a format from the following choices:
- Email to Your Team:
- Length: 1 page (excluding reference page), single-spaced, Arial 12-point font.
- Template: .
- Include a reference page.
- Resource: Visit to review the following resources that provide guidance on formatting business letters and professional emails:
- Format of a Formal letter.
- 5 Tips for Writing Professional Emails.
- Brochure:
- Length: 2 pages, excluding your title page and reference page, Arial 12-point font.
- Template: .
- Resource: Visit to review the following resource that provides guidance on creating a brochure:
- How to Make a Brochure in Microsoft Word.
- One-Minute Speech:
- Length: 1 minute.
- Template: .
- Resources:
- For guidance on recording your speech, review or .
- Visit to review the following resources that provide guidance on creating and recording presentations:
- Basic Tasks for Creating a PowerPoint Presentation.
- Record a Presentation.
- Tips:
- Write out your speech and practice with a timer.
- Verbally give credit to your sources by using phrases such as according to so-and-so, so-and-so says, or so-and-so found.
The purpose of this assessment is to use what youve learned to share your vision and inspire your team.
In your assessment, complete the following:
- Choose the leadership style you will use.
- Use your leadership style in your communication (democratic, transactional, transformational, coaching, et cetera). Be consistent.
- Include inspirational leadership practices and behaviors.
Notes:
If you are submitting the email or brochure, Word is the preferred file format
Requirements: read carefully

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