The document provides instructions for a final research paper on a leader. Students must select a leader in a position of responsibility over other employees. The paper should include an overview of the leader's name, title, role, organization details, and career history. The analysis section requires describing the leader's style with examples, three challenges they faced, their greatest achievement, and applying three course concepts to assess their effectiveness. Students also reflect on what they learned about leadership and implications for their own style.

1. Final paper
In preparation for your research, select an individual currently
in a leadership position. The person must be responsible in
some capacity for other employees, and the person must be an
individual that can be researched.
Overview
In your overview of the leader, include:
The leader’s name and title.
His or her specific role or position and responsibilities.
The name, industry, and description of the organization,
including the culture of the organization.
The length of time the leader has been in his or her current
position.
A brief history of the leader’s background and career path to his
or her present day leadership position.
Analysis
Your analysis should:
Describe, assess, and analyze the person’s leadership style. Be
sure to provide specific examples.
Identify and describe three significant challenges they faced as
a leader.
Identify and describe their greatest achievement, to date, as a
leader.
Apply and correctly cite a minimum of three leadership
concepts from the course to this leader’s roles and
responsibilities within the organization, their relationships with
others, etc.
Use these concepts to help describe the person’s leadership
style and assess what makes it effective or ineffective.
Reflect on what you learned about leadership from your
research.
Reflect on the implications for your personal leadership style.
Writing the Final Paper:

2. Must be eight to ten double-spaced pages in length (excluding
the title and reference pages) an