A. Describe an existing organization with which you have had personal experience and its objective(s).
1. Describe three leadership practices of the current leader, other than yourself, in the existing
organization.
Note: Leadership practices are routine actions, behaviors, functions, and responsibilities that the
current leader performs.
2. Discuss how the current leader has affected organizational culture.
Note: You may represent any level of the chosen organization (e.g., team, department, division, whole) and
the respective current leader in your description.
B. Conduct a SWOT analysis evaluating the chosen organization by doing the following:
1. Evaluate two of the organization’s current strengths.
2. Evaluate two of the organization’s current weaknesses.
3. Evaluate two of the organization’s current unmet opportunities.
4. Evaluate two of the organization’s current unresolved threats.
Note: The accepted model for a SWOT analysis defines strengths and weaknesses as internal to the
organization, and opportunities and threats as external to the organization.
C. Conduct a leadership evaluation of the current leader discussed in part A1, using one of the scholarly
leadership theories below that is different from task 1, by doing the following:
• transformational leadership
• transactional leadership
• situational leadership
• participative leadership
• servant leadership
• behavioral leadership
• trait theory of leadership
1. Evaluate three strengths of the current leader, using the chosen scholarly leadership theory, including
how each strength relates to the theory. Support the evaluation of the leader’s strengths with at least
one scholarly source.
2. Evaluate three weaknesses of the current leader, using the chosen scholarly leadership theory,
including how each weakness relates to the theory. Support the evaluation of the leader’s weaknesses
with at least one scholarly source.
3. Recommend three actionable items to improve the effectiveness of the current leader, including how
each actionable item relates to the chosen scholarly leadership theory. Support the recommendations
of actionable items with at least one scholarly source.
