How do leaders apply interpersonal communication or mass communication to empower workers
Assignment 1
Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 600–1000 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions with your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.
What is empowerment?
How do leaders use interpersonal communication or mass communication to empower employees?
Provide an example of empowerment from your own experience. What were the benefits and challenges of being empowered?
Assignment 2
Deliverable Length: 8-10 PowerPoint slides with 200-250 words of speaker notes per slide
At your next luncheon meeting with Rae Marie, Vice President of Operations for MyShoppingSpreeTV, she arrives visibly troubled. She discloses, “I have 17 people reporting to me, and now I have 2 open positions. I feel confident that my people know what they are doing, but I am not sure they trust me. Until I can get this position filled, I have spread out the responsibilities of the open positions to everyone on the team, but, as a department, we seem to get less and less done. As soon as we solve one problem, another one appears. In addition, my boss Jim, keeps adding more to our project list.”
She confides that she is concerned that her employees do not respect her authority. When you inquire about her approach, her personal leadership style, and the methods she uses to influence her employees, she admits that she has not had time to reflect on her leadership style and is not quite sure what you mean. You share with Rae Marie that there are studies of leadership styles and multiple definitions of leadership styles can be found. However, a leadership style can be broadly defined as the manner and approach of providing direction, implementing plans, and motivating people.
Hoping to offer some perspective on the subject, for your next visit, you offer to put together a slide presentation to illustrate theoretical models of leadership related to the methods that leaders use to influence their employees. Your dedication to sharing your knowledge of leadership reassures her that she has a solid resource in you.
In your presentation, do the following:
evaluate the differences between 3 theoretical models related to leadership (one of the theoretical models should be transformational leadership)
Identify the goals of each theoretical model that you have selected
Illustrate the relationship between each of the 3 theoretical models
What is the difference between a theoretical model of leadership and a leadership style?
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