Posted: April 11th, 2015

Leadership Development Project

Requested instructions for this University Paper for the Course Leadership are as following:

Compare and discuss the leadership styles of two leader of your choice, use common leadership theories to do so. Those can be any leader. After doing so extract the qualities and characteristics that those leader showed and apply those to the hospitality environment. For example: How can these leadership styles be applied to the hospitality environment? How can these positively influence the hospitality environment.

Exact outline:

Project Overview: The LDP will enhance and sharpen the students’ leadership skills and actions, both in critical and reflective understanding. Each student is firstly to critically compare and contrast two leaders that they have dealt with. They need then to extract good qualities and state how they would put these to use in the hospitality industry.

Overall Aim: To develop new knowledge and future actions that are constructed based on insights and experiences of realizing leadership potential. Each individual is to produce an LDP paper of 3’000 words.

Learning Outcomes (from the CRS or syllabus):
1. Predict how the various leadership styles can be applied in real life situations.
2. Consciously establish leadership concepts and theories versus real life business scenarios.
3. Understand your own leadership style and potential
4. Use skills to assimilate, organize, evaluate and present information in a professional manner.

LDP Objectives:
The LDP is designed on the five significant areas of leadership development framework as outlined below:
(i) To attend to the changing context and demands of their current and potential leadership roles and indicated expectations and realities that they face in today’s world of learning, work and business opportunities.
(ii) To develop personal and professional skills and demonstrate how these influences their leadership goals and underscore assumptions about business environments.
(iii) To examine their personal and leadership intentions based on their core values, and to be aware how their values shape the choices and decisions of their working environments.
(iv) To develop self-and group awareness skills as a leader and demonstrate how their work gives a distinctive style.

Organization & Methodology:
Write a detailed essay report demonstrating the development of two leadership abilities with a focus on studying leadership theories, evaluations and assessments with specific focuses on contexts and work domains. Reflect on your exchanges in class, as well as group discussions. The written work shall demonstrate a student understanding leadership values; identified and advised leadership styles; aspirations of roles, potential and motivations of their development as indicated in the assessment grid format. The final output of each student’s LDP will indicate an eagerness to determine a range of leadership theories, principles and practices in professional context. The report should conclude with practical recommendations and goals or next steps to advance his/her own leadership abilities.

Introduction – Position statement; statement of purpose
Identifies the development period, goals, and purpose of the project
Evaluation of Leadership Theories
Selection and use of one or several leadership theories that would apply to the assessment

Interpretation of Leadership Assessments;
Effective use of a range of relevant assessments, self, peer, & supervisory. Interpretation to be linked to the leadership theories studied in the course

Critical reflection of Leadership Practice
Limits of the assessment and evaluation of the potential as well as recommendations and constructive feedback