Activity 1

Overview:

For this activity, you will choose four careers or situations from the list below and explore each of them in terms of leadership roles and organizational responsibilities.

You will have two options for the medium that you use to complete this activity:

• You can create four short videos, speaking directly to the camera or acting out scenarios
• Or you can write four short essays, making sure to thoroughly explore and explain each career or situation (Please do this option)

Required Information:

Regardless of which medium you choose to complete this activity, you will need to discuss and answer the following questions:

• What do you think a leader should look like in this career or situation? (Think about what they will do, say, and how they will act.) Describe and explain.
• How might a leader in this career or situation show confidence in their role? Give specific examples and explain each.
• What are three key ways that a leader in this career or situation could demonstrate their organizational abilities? Briefly explain each.
• Which career or situation do you think would be the most challenging to take on a leadership role in?
• Briefly describe at least one experience that you have had in a leadership role. Why did you take on this role? What did it entail? If you have never stepped into a leadership role, discuss why and how you might attempt to in the future.

For your essay:

• Organize your essay into four sections, one for each career or situation that you choose.
• Be sure to answer each and every one of the required questions for each career or situation.
• Be mindful of your punctuation and grammar throughout your essay.

Career/Situation Choices for Leaders:

• Elementary school teacher
• CEO of a large tech company
• High school student body president
• Eldest sibling of five children in a family
• Captain of your school football team
• Manager at a restaurant
• Captain of the pep squad
• Team captain of a group school project
• Babysitter for three young children

Activity 2

Overview:

For this activity, you will be given several different scenarios. You will need to rely on your decision-making skills and problem-solving abilities to determine the best way to handle them.

For each of the three scenarios that you are given, please write a minimum of one paragraph explaining:

• How you would solve the problem or address the issue. Be specific. Please include dialogue to express your thoughts if it seems appropriate and makes sense with the given situation.
• If you feel that there are several ways to handle any of the scenarios, please discuss all options before settling on one final decision.
• What, if any, tips or steps (gather relevant info, identify alternatives, weigh evidence, make a choice and take action, accept the outcome) did you use in order to reach your solution/decision. Be specific and explain.

You will also come up with a fourth scenario that could potentially be given to another student to solve. You do not need to write a solution for this fourth scenario, just a basic summary and description similarly formatted to the three given to you.

Scenario 1:

You are the manager of a small marketing company. One of your employees is dressing inappropriately for an office setting. Other employees are complaining that it is distracting them from their work. You have spoken to the employee about this issue twice, and nothing has changed. The employee is a solid worker and their inappropriate dress is the only issue that you have with them.

What do you do?

Scenario 2:

You are the CEO of a large company. You have a very important deadline coming up the day after a company-recognized holiday for a large project that is not yet complete.

You have a small team of five people that have been working hard on this project for weeks. Initially, you gave each member on the team several days off over the holidays because you anticipated that the project would be completed by then. However, the project is taking longer than expected. It is important to note that the delay in the project's completion is no one's fault, and everyone has been working hard.

Several members on the team have shared with you their holiday plans and you know that everyone on the team is excited for their promised time off.

You cannot complete the project on your own by the deadline and the client is not willing to budge on the due date.

What do you do?

Scenario 3:

You are an assistant manager at a small consulting firm. You ask one of the employees that works for you to drop off a package at the post office after work on Tuesday. The post office is right on his way home, but it is very out of the way for you. The package is especially important, and it must arrive at its destination by the following day: Wednesday, at noon.

The package has a document that will be discussed at an important meeting with business partners that will only be in town for one day. Although you will not be at the meeting, your manager and the CEO will be in attendance and both of them have entrusted you with making sure that the package arrives.

You find out on Wednesday afternoon that the package never arrived. You are responsible for the mistake.

What do you do?