LEADERSHIP BACKGROUND PAPER

LEADERSHIP BACKGROUND PAPER

For this assignment, you will develop a background paper on the condition of the organizational culture within your current or previous work center (flight, squadron, etc.) as well as self-reflect on your own use of followership, leadership, and management concepts.  In your own words, the paper must cover the following:

1. Leadership & Management: Using concepts from the lesson, explain how you navigate balancing personal leadership attributes and management skills (as applicable) to your duty position and within your organization.

2. Followership: Describe the challenges with developing exemplary followership characteristics and discuss strategies to overcome them (as applicable) to your duty position and organizational structure.

3. Ethical Leadership: Describe the current ethical climate of your organization and explain how you can apply ethics concepts from the lesson to maintain and/or enhance it.

4. Leading Teams: Describe how your team’s dynamics contribute to or detract from the overall success of your organization and how you can implement lesson concepts of change management to improve your team’s dynamics and organizational success.

5. Shaping Organizations: Describe what actions are necessary in shaping, strengthening, and/or maintaining (as applicable) the current condition of your organization’s culture.

6. Clarity & Accuracy: The paper must convey your own original thoughts and ideas that are well supported and properly integrated. Support your main points with details, personal examples, credible outside sources, or a combination thereof (as applicable) that are adequate, relevant, and coherent.

7. Format & Mechanics: The paper must meet the following requirements:

A. The paper must contain a purpose, outline of main points, and conclusion IAW AFH 33-337, The Tongue and Quill.

B. Explanations must flow logically through main points to the conclusion.

C. The paper must use Times New Roman, 12-point font; 1-inch margins all around; single space line breaks within paragraphs; and double-space line breaks between paragraphs.

1. 1. Page numbers should be used from page 2 onward, placed in the header, flush with the right margin.

   2. All other grammar, formatting, mechanics, etc. must be consistent with guidance in AFH 33-337, The Tongue and Quill.

   3. Paper should be 2 to 3 pages in length, not including the reference page.

   4. The reference page must include all sources and be cited according to the Chicago Manual of Style. For the purposes of this paper, social media sites (including Reddit, Facebook, etc.), blogs, and Wikis are not considered credible sources. Consult AFH-33-337, The Tongue and Quill, Ch. 4, Research Your Topic, for further guidance.

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