Instruction
Leader Analysis Paper:
LEAD 200 students will choose and conduct a leader assessment of a public person (not a
relative or friend). The public person is either historic or currently living. Here are the
requirements of this leader analysis:
1. Use APA style in writing your paper, Times New Roman, 12-pitch font, double
spaced, one inch margins top, bottom and sides, cover page and reference page, with no
abstract page required.
2. Students must cite three primary sources in the bibliography. A primary source is a
book on that person, an article out of an academic journal (Newsweek, US News and
World Report, Time, etc. are NOT academic journals) or another written essay on that
person. The key is use publications created by authors who directly observed the public
figure.
3. Students evaluate their leader by analyzing the leader’s behaviors using the Five
Practices of Effective Leaders by Kouzes and Posner; Students should have
approximately three quarters of a page of analysis for each of the five practices.
4. Students must describe how their leader illustrated one leadership approach studied
during the course of this semester. For example, Abraham Lincoln’s leadership style was
more relational than task focused. This analysis should take approximately half of a page.
5. Speculate on this person’s DISC profile and the four-letter personality
(16personalities.com) profile. Provide a summary of what you believe or what you have
research, based on your research, what their DISC profile would represent, and their
probable personality profile (four-letter code) and of course information supporting your
assessment. This should take approximately half of a page.
6. Students should also provide a brief overview and summary of their paper and leader.
The introduction should include a short personal history about the leader such as where
they were born, where they grew up, challenges in their life, etc. This should be no more
than one page for both the introduction and conclusion.
7. The total length of this analysis paper is 4 - 6 pages of written text