Crisis Leadership report

Step 1: Course Material

For this project, you are required to use the case scenario facts and the course material. In addition to information from this week’s reading relevant to answering the questions below, you are allowed to use any course material from prior weeks useful in addressing the questions. External sources are not permitted.  You are not researching on the Internet or using resources from outside the course.  You are expected to answer the requirements identified below, showing the connection between the case scenario facts and the course material. Using course material goes beyond defining terms and explains the ‘why and how’ of a situation. Avoid merely making statements but close the loop of the discussion by explaining how something happens or why something happens, which focuses on importance and impact. In closing the loop, you will demonstrate the ability to think clearly and rationally, showing an understanding of the logical connections between the ideas presented in a case scenario, the course material, and the question(s) being asked. Using one or two in-text citations from the course material will not earn many points on an assignment throughout the paper. The use of a variety of course material is expected to support what is presented consistently. The support must be relevant and applicable to the topic being discussed. Points are not earned for mentioning a term or concept but by clearly explaining or discussing the question at hand.

Step 2: The Questions to Answer

You will answer the 11 questions above provided in Step 1.

Step 3: Write the Report.

Report Format:

Create a Word or Rich Text Format (RTF) report with no more than seven (7) pages double-spaced.  Those seven pages do not include the required Title Page, Reference Page, and Appendix. You will use the following format.

The report should use Roman Numeral numbering for each section. Each section should be titled and listed exactly in the order listed above. All answers are to be supported by course materials, cited, and referenced in APA format.

Identify and discuss the primary leadership style of Michael Brown in his handling of this crisis.
Discuss an alternative leadership style that could have been used by Michael Brown that could have been better suited than the one he used.
What leadership competencies did Michael Brown present in the recent echinacea crisis?
What leadership competencies did Michael Brown present in the recent echinacea crisis?
Identify the role that EQ played in the Echinacea crisis.
Identify the role of EQ for a crisis-ready culture.
Did either Michael Brown or Alexandria Marvel use Authentic Leadership in the Echinacea crisis?
What role should Authentic Leadership play in a crisis-ready culture?
Thinking about Michael Brown’s actions in handling the crisis and Henrietta Higgins’s actions leading to the crisis and the fact that Alexandria Marvel was excluded from the decision-making process about handling the crisis, what conclusions can you draw about LSN’s current culture played in the echinacea crisis?
Describe the relationship of strategy, culture, and structure for a crisis-ready culture.
Give three specific and actionable recommendations that could be implemented to develop a crisis-ready culture for LSN. (Each recommendation should be supported by course materials.) Make sure these three recommendations are actionable (in other words, leadership can take your advice and put it into practice immediately) and specific (in other words, not too general that it cannot be easily understood). For example, “change leadership style” is not actionable today and too general to be clearly understood. However, “train leaders on different leadership styles” can be put into practice today and is specific enough to be understood. (Do not use this example in your answer!)
Reference Page – provide references to match your in-text citations, written in APA format.
Step 4: Submit the Completed Report in the Assignment Folder.

Submitting the project to the Assignment Folder is considered the student’s final product and, therefore, ready for grading by the instructor. It is incumbent upon the student to verify the assignment is the correct submission.

Other Required Elements:

Read the grading rubric for the project. Use the grading rubric while completing the project to ensure all requirements are met, leading to the highest possible grade.
Contractions are not used in business writing, so do not use them.
Paraphrasing is allowed for providing examples from the Interview. Use direct quotation marks if you are providing a direct quote from the interviewee. You do not need to cite or reference this leader for this report.
Direct quotes are NOT allowed if they are quotations from course materials. This means you do not use more than four consecutive words from a source document. You must put a passage from a source document into your own words and attribute the passage, using the correct APA in-text citation format,  to the source document. In other words, once you paraphrase a source document, the source document must be shown in an in-text citation.
In-text citations should be included in ALL SECTIONS of the report and should demonstrate the application of the course material. Note that a reference within a reference list cannot exist without an associated in-text citation and vice versa.
You may only use the course material from the classroom. You may not use books or any resource from the Internet.
Provide the page or paragraph number, where applicable.