Life Skills Development/Unit Two/Leadership/Assignment and Assessment

Assignment

Name persons you consider to be successful/model leaders – national and international, historical and present-day. Suggest the traits and characteristics of a model leader. Using the three (3) basic leadership styles: autocratic, laissez-faire, democratic. Give real-life examples of each of these leadership styles. Get into groups to create an advertisement for an imagined company seeking an individual to fill a vacant leadership position. Advertised position must also state leadership traits and qualities considered desirable/mandatory. Prepare role play/dramatic presentation to demonstrate responsible and effective leadership in a named context, where decision making/problem-solving and other qualities of the leader are needed. There should also be a display of what bad leadership is.

Unit summary

In this unit you learned about:

• The qualities of a good leader,
• The difference between a leadership and management and different types of leadership styles.
• How to motivate people.
• You should be able to identify which personality characteristics you have that are similar to those of a leader as well as those that you need to develop or further enhance.
• You should also be able to recognize bad leadership. Leadership skills can now be applied to decision making and problem solving.

Checklists of Performance Task

1. Creation of an advertisement, by an imagined company, seeking an individual to fill a vacant leadership position. Advertised position must also state leadership traits and qualities considered desirable/mandatory.

	RUBRIC of performance criteria	V. Well Done	Well Done	OK	Not Ok- Will redo by ….
1.	I understood the requirements of the leadership position.
2.	The reason for which each leadership trait was selected was understood.
3.	I approved of the selection of leadership qualities requested.

2. Role play/dramatic presentation to demonstrate responsible and effective leadership in a named context, where decision-making/problem-solving and other qualities of the leader are needed.

	RUBRIC of performance criteria	V. Well Done	Well Done	OK	Not Ok- Will redo by ….
1.	I found that leadership qualities were clearly demonstrated.
2.	I found that the leadership qualities demonstrated were applicable in the given context.

3.

	RUBRIC of performance criteria	V. Well Done	Well Done	OK	Not Ok- Will redo by ….
1.	I named the persons I consider to be successful/model leaders.
2.	I gave examples of each type of leadership style.
3.	I created a newspaper advertisement to fill a vacant leadership position in my company.

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