Assignment:
Leadership Development Workbook Project
Introduction
As we are learning semester, one major contribution of the research on leadership in organizations is the debunking of the "Great Man" theory. We have learned that great leadership is not found in a set of traits that are possessed by a few, elite people. Instead, leadership is more frequently thought of as a set of behaviors and skills that are applied in specific situations to influence followers.
While leadership may be accessible to most people, great leaders are still few and far between. That is where your team will come in. Your goal with this project is to design a "workbook" that will help aspiring leaders build the knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics necessary to engage in effective leadership. The workbook should not be a demonstration of how much you know about leadership theory. Instead, it should be a demonstration of how well you, as a group, can translate the theory we learn in class into skill building that can be used by actual leaders to increase their effectiveness in the workplace.