You are a member of a team that has been selected to deliver a leadership presentation designed for new managers in an organization. Your team will create a leadership handbook to be used in a training workshop for new managers.
Each team member must write two sections of the handbook. Each individual section of the handbook must have the author’s name attached. The handbook may include graphs, data, photographs, and other information as needed. It should be written in a report/handbook format rather than in an essay format and should have a consistent format throughout the handbook (i.e. font, margins, headings, background, and spacing should be the same in each section). Each section of the handbook must include at least three references in APA format accompanying the section of the handbook in which the references are used. Team members will each choose two of the following topics, one for each of the two sections of the handbook that they will write:
• Emotional intelligence: What is your emotional IQ?
• Personality traits and leadership styles of great leaders
• Leading high-performance teams
• Interpersonal skills for leaders
• Leading through effective communication
• Time management
• Leaders as motivators
• Leading and managing conflict resolution
• Moral leadership and ethics
• Leading culturally diverse teams
• Leading intergenerational group
• Leadership versus management
Task:
A. Create a leadership handbook with your team by doing the following:
1. Develop your first section of the handbook that discusses one of the given topics.
2. Develop your second section of the handbook that discusses one of the given topics.
Note: Be sure to include at least 3 references per section and your name on eachsection of the handbook for which you are responsible.
3. Compile the entire handbook with your team.
a. Complete the attached “Assignment Designation Form.”
Note: Submit this form at the same time as the other 3 documents required for this task.
B. Complete the attached “Leadership Handbook Scoring Rubric.”
Note: This should include a numeric rating for each section of the rubric as well as written comments explaining the numeric rating.
C. Evaluate your team’s performance, utilizing the team contract and your team’s experiences, by doing the following:
1. Identify your team’s goals.
a. Discuss how your team achieved or did not achieve its goals.
Note: Provide specific examples to support how you met or did not meet each goal.
2. Identify two or more specific motivation strategies or theories that were agreed to in the team contract
a. Analyze how effectively your team utilized the identified motivation strategies or theories, OR, if your team did not use one of the strategies or theories, provide a brief discussion on how your team could have used each strategy or theory to improve team performance.
3. Identify two or more specific influence strategies or theories that were agreed to in the team contract.
a. Analyze how effectively your team utilized the identified strategies or theories to exert influence over the team outcomes or deliverables, OR, if your team did not use one of the strategies or theories, provide a brief discussion on how your team could have used each strategy or theory to improve team performance.
4. Discuss the effectiveness of your team’s communication plan as written in the Team Contract, referencing examples from the team experience.
5. Identify two or more specific conflict-resolution strategies or theories that were agreed to in the team contract.
a. Reflect on the effectiveness of the use of the conflict-resolution strategies or theories, referencing examples from the team experience, OR, if your team did not use one of the strategies or theories, provide a brief discussion on how your team could have used each strategy or theory to improve team performance.
6. Discuss how you could have improved the team’s performance.
Note: This should be written from the context of what you personally could have done to improve team performance.
D. When you use sources, include all in-text citations and references in APA format.
