Write an evaluative essay which clearly includes the parts of an essay, an introduction, a body, and a conclusion. In your
evaluative essay, be sure bring in the textbook and at least one other outside source to support your answers to the following
questions:
Think about your role as a leader of a team; provide examples of how you demonstrate at least three of these: inspiring,
handing off, coaching, cheering or keeping score to the group members.
What is your impression of the composition of your team, in terms of committed, compliant and complacent members? How are
you addressing the motivation of the “motivational middle?”
Reflect on your listening skills as it relates to the needs of your team members. How can you improve on this issue?
After evaluating your team as a whole, what is your overall vision statement for the team? Make sure it includes the teams’
shared passions.
Have you delegated enough authority to your team members to allow them to selfmanage?
How have you avoided the
micromanagement trap?
Create three different strategies to help your team build their competencies so the team as a whole can work more efficiently
together.
How collaborative is the climate within your work team? Are some people less collaborative than others? What can you do to
help them change their behavior?
Think of your overall managerial style. Provide examples of how you display the leadership philosophy discussed by the
authors of the textbook. What are ways you are not implementing this philosophy? What is your overall view of this leadership
philosophy?
The viewpoint and purpose of this assignment should be clearly established and sustained. The assignment should follow the
conventions of Standard American English (correct grammar, punctuation, etc.). Your writing should be well ordered, logical
and unified, as well as original and insightful. Your work should display superior content, organization, style, and mechanics