Instructions:
Analyzing the systematic approaches of traits, skills, and behavioral leadership approaches can help you understand how to evolve as a leader. Not only can these analyses benefit your style, but they can also benefit those you lead. Presume you have been asked to provide training materials for the principals in your school district. Utilizing the provided resources and additional scholarly sources, prepare a best practices tip sheet that includes the following:
•Describe each of these three leadership approaches. Include an example of each to illustrate your findings.
•Analyze the traits, skills, and behaviors of effective leaders you have experienced. You may also include those you possess that make you an effective educational leader.
•Explain the traits, skills, and behaviors most educational leaders need to change to improve their ethical leadership effectiveness.
•Describe the traits, skills, and behaviors you believe you would like to change to improve your effectiveness as an ethical educational leader.
REQUIREMENTS: This assignment requires a 3-page tip sheet of best practices using instructions listed above; not including the title and references pages, using APA 7 format, properly use in-text citations, paper must include an introduction and a conclusion, and 5-6 scholarly peer reviewed resources. Use 5 of the 7 references below as resources, especially the starred references or any others that reflect the lesson concept.
1. Anderson, B.E., Welch-Bacon, C. E., & Sauers, E. L. (2020). Athletic trainers’ perception of advanced clinical practice: Characteristics of advanced practice athletic trainers. Athletic Training Education Journal, 15(1), 35-40.
2. **Germain, M. L. (2012). Traits and skills theories as the nexus between leadership and expertise: Reality or fallacy? Performance Improvement, 51(5), 32-39.
3. **Grobler, S. (2016). Requisite leader behavioral competencies for sustainable organizational performance. Acta Commercii, 16(1), 1-8.
4. **Cherry, K. (2019, November 20). Understanding the trait theory of leadership. Very Well Mind.
May, K. (2019, April 24). Skills-based leadership theory. Chron.
5. Mulholland, B. (2019, September 23). Behavioral theory of leadership: How to be a better leader. ProcessSt.
6. **Northouse, P. G. (2021). Leadership: Theory and practice (9th ed.). SAGE. (Read Chapters 3&4)
7. **Spinks, N. (2008). Skill. In S.R. Clegg & J.R. Bailey (Eds.), International encyclopedia of organization studies, (Vol. 1, pp. 1415-1418). SAGE.
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