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Gardner’s five minds

Overview

In 4–5 pages, explain the meaning of Gardner’s five minds, analyze personal competence in the five minds, and explain why the five minds are essential qualities for a global leader. Analyze a selected leadership theory or model in terms of alignment to Gardner’s five minds.

Note:
Creating a global leadership development plan requires specific thought processes. The Gardner’s five minds assessments in this course are presented in a specific sequence and must be completed in order.

In today’s complex and highly competitive global business environment, companies want to know that leaders at all levels will not be complacent within their position in the company and will proactively engage in leadership development. Assessments 1–4 have been designed to help you analyze the skills and competencies required of global leaders, as you also assess your own personal levels of competence. By the time you reach Assessment 5, you will be able to create a personal global leadership development plan that you can use to advance your career.

Note:
The suggested resources in this assessment were carefully selected to help you to complete the Gardner’s five minds assessment.

By successfully completing this Gardner’s five minds assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:

Competency 1: Analyze the characteristics and responsibilities of effective leaders in global business environments.

Explain the meaning of the Five Minds of Leadership.

Explain why the Five Minds are essential qualities for a global leader.

Competency 3: Analyze strategies and best practices for ongoing personal and professional global leadership development.

Analyze personal competency in the Five Minds of Leadership.

Competency 4: Use leadership theories and models to support evidence-based practices for leading globally.

Analyze a leadership theory or model in terms of alignment to the Five Minds concept.

Competency 5: Communicate in a manner that is professional and consistent with expectations of the business professions.

Correctly format citations and references using current APA style.

Write content clearly and logically with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.

Competency Map

Questions to Consider

As you prepare to complete this assessment, you may want to think about other related issues to deepen your understanding or broaden your viewpoint. You are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of your professional community. Note that these questions are for your own development and exploration and do not need to be completed or submitted as part of your assessment.

What leadership skill or trait do you think is essential for leading a global organization? Why?

Are there any leadership skills or traits that a global leader could do without and still be effective? Why?

Suggested Resources

The resources provided here are optional and support the assessment. You may use other resources of your choice to prepare for this Gardner’s five minds assessment; However, you will need to ensure that they are appropriate, credible, and valid. They provide helpful information about the topics in this unit. An MBA guide  can help direct your research, and the Supplemental Resources and Research Resources, both linked from the left navigation menu in your courseroom, provide additional resources to help support you.

This article expands upon Gardner’s “Five Minds for the future.”

Pava, M. L. (2008).
‘Loving the distance between them’: Thinking beyond Howard Gardner’s “Five minds for the future”
.
Journal of Business Ethics
,
83
(2), 285–296.

Leadership Theories and Models

The resources below contain a number of leadership theories.

Marquet, L. D. (2014).
What is leadership?
[Video]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYKH2uSax8U

Leadership-central.com.
Leadership theories
. Retrieved from http://www.leadership-central.com/leadership-theories.html#axzz4M9RBMNtE

This site explains several leadership theories and contains links to other theories.

Changing Minds. (2016).
Leadership theories
. Retrieved from http://changingminds.org/disciplines/leadership/theories/leadership_theories.htm

This site contains links to a number of leadership theories.

Sajjadi, A. (2014).
New emerging leadership theories and styles
.
Technical Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences
,
4
(3), 180–188. Retrieved from http://tjeas.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/180-188.pdf

Northouse, P.G. (2016).
Leadership: Theory and practice
(7th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Chapter 2, “Trait Approach,” pages 19–39.

Chapter 3, “Skills Approach,” pages 43–67.

Chapter 5, “Situational Approach,” pages 93–111.

Chapter 6, “Path-Goal Theory,” pages 115–133.

Chapter 7, “Leader-Member Exchange Theory,” pages 137–156.

Chapter 8, “Transformational Leadership,” pages 161–189.

 

Additional Resources for Further Exploration

You may use the following optional resources to further explore topics related to competencies.

This video discusses the factors that are reshaping global business and what it means for companies hoping to compete in the twenty-first century. Gardner’s five minds.

Knowledge at Wharton. (2008). “
Globality”: Why companies are competing with everyone from everywhere for everything
[Video]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jI8XKJI5rU

Gardner’s five minds Assessment Instructions

In order to develop a global leadership plan and be a true leader in the global arena, you must know your own strengths and weaknesses with respect to the level of your leadership competencies. This assessment will help you evaluate your level of competence related to Gardner’s Five Minds of Leadership, and will be helpful when you create your global leadership development plan.

Preparation

Be sure you read and reference the Gardner article linked in the Required Resources section of this assessment. You will also need to do your own research on Gardner’s Five Minds concept and its implications for the future. Search the Capella University Library and the Internet for scholarly articles on the application of this concept. You will need at least three additional resources to support your work in this Gardner’s five minds assessment.

In addition, select one of the following theories or models to research and use in this assessment:

Trait approach.

Skills approach.

Situational approach.

Path-goal theory.

Leader-member exchange theory.

Transformational leadership.

Organize this Gardner’s five minds assessment logically, using headings and sub-headings appropriately. Include a title page and reference page, and follow APA guidelines for all citations and references.

 

Requirements

For this Gardner’s five minds assessment, complete the following:

Explain the meaning of each of Gardner’s Five Minds.

Analyze your own level of competency in each of the Five Minds.

Describe your experience in each of the Five Minds.

Determine your strengths and weaknesses in each of the Five Minds.

Explain how you can develop and improve your Five Minds.

Analyze the theory or model you selected in terms of how well it aligns with Gardner’s Five Minds.

Briefly explain the theory or model you selected.

Explain how the theory or model aligns (or does not align) with Gardner’s Five Minds.

Explain why Gardner’s Five Minds are essential qualities for a global leader.

Additional Requirements

Include a title page and reference page.

Number of pages: 4–5, not including title page and reference page.

Number of resources: At least 3 in addition to the Gardner article.

APA format for citations and references.

Times New Roman font, 12 point.

Double-spaced.

Gardner’s five minds

Future of Nursing Graduates

Now that you are very close to completing this major accomplishment in your nursing career, what are your plans for your future? Please share your plans to keep up to date in your chosen specialty and nursing in general. What professional and nursing organizations do you plan to actively participate? Have you considered continuing your education to pursue a graduate degree?

Accurate Registration Worksheet

Complete the Accurate Registration Worksheet. In the worksheet, you must explain the steps of the registration process as well as consequences of missing steps.

Different cultural food pyramids

Why do you think it is important to understand different cultural food pyramids when recommendations to patients about wellness

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Health Education Campaigns

We explored different ways of influencing policymakers through a number of forms of letter writing in this course. For this discussion, you will explore other ways of working with campaigns. As a health advocate, it is important to assist candidates who support your issues to help bring about the desired change. There are a number of different ways you can help contribute during the process. Address the following in your discussions:

How can you assist a campaign with a similar health agenda as your own? Provide examples as part of your discussion.

What responsibility(s) AND what competency(s) of a Health Education Specialist does assisting a campaign fall under? Explain your choices.

Health Information Exchange (HIE) and Health Reform

Resource: Brochure Builder Imagine you are a certified health records specialist at a medical practice and have been asked to create a brochure for your patients regarding HIE. Create a 350- to 700-word brochure Include the following: Describe the relationship between HIE and health reform. Identify and describe at least 3 privacy concerns with the use of HIE and the Internet. Cite at least 2 references in your brochure. One reference should be a course textbook and the other should be an outside source. Format any citations in your brochure according to APA guidelines.

Critical Thinker

A poem by T.S. Eliot (1943) says, “We had the experience but missed the meaning.” As your experience in this course comes to a close, I don’t want you to miss the meaning of the materials you have read, papers you have written, and discussions we have had throughout the session. They are more than a series of assignments and grades—the end result should be an improvement in your higher-order thinking and your ability to make connections between thoughts and ideas. You can achieve that through reflection, the art of taking charge of your own mind.

Reflection is a mental process that challenges you to use critical thinking to examine the course information, analyze it carefully, make connections with previous knowledge and experience, and draw conclusions based on the resulting ideas. A well-cultivated critical thinker (Paul & Elder, 2008):

raises vital questions and problems, formulating them clearly and precisely;

gathers and assesses relevant information, using abstract ideas to interpret it effectively; comes to well-reasoned conclusions and solutions, testing them against relevant criteria and standards;

thinks open-mindedly within alternative systems of thought, recognizing and assessing, as need be, their assumptions, implications, and practical consequences; and

communicates effectively with others in figuring out solutions to complex problems.

For this discussion, take some time to reflect upon two concepts that you learned in this course. What are the concepts? What insight or ideas did you gain from learning each of these concepts as a critical thinker? Were there aspects of the concepts that you would challenge? What is the importance of these concepts to public health? How will you use this new wisdom in your current or future career as a critical thinker?

In order to earn maximum credit, the comment should be more than your opinion, and more than a quick “off the top of your head” response. Be sure to support your statements, cite sources properly, cite within the text of your comments, and list your reference(s). The response must be a minimum of 250 words.

Eliot, T. S. (1944) Four Quartets, The Dry Salvages, pt. 2. London.

Paul, R. & Elder, L. (February 2008). The Miniature Guide to Critical Thinking Concepts and Tools. Foundation for Critical Thinking Press.

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