- Leadership Project 1 — Individual Leadership - 3000 words
The Task
Critically analyse and review the leadership capabilities of an actual leader- either someone
you know or an historical or current leader and clearly identify and link those attributes and
processes that identify this person as an effective leader. To enable critical analysis, the
leader that you choose should be a business or political leader and not a religious figure.
This assignment focuses on the competencies of a named individual of your choice and the
starting point should be the leader. You should provide a very brief overview of the leader,
and examples of the type of leadership behaviour demonstrated. These examples should
come from a variety of sources including those who worked with the leader. You should
examine a specific leadership theory that most closely represents the style of leadership
demonstrated by the leader you have chosen to write about. This exploration of theory should
focus on one leadership theory and should explore it in detail and depth and not merely
describe it. It should explore the research literature conducted into this theory and therefore
describe how the particular leadership style/behaviour under discussion should ideally match
the circumstances and needs of the group and how it ideally should be conducted. You
should critically compare the leadership of the leader that you have chosen with the ideal
theory that you have explored in research.
