Profile assignment sample

This is a template and checklist corresponding to your Assignment 1 paper, “My Leadership Profile”, due on Sunday of Week 3. It covers the Assignment 1 instructions and the grading rubric to help ensure that you include everything required by the assignment. See below for an explanation of the color coding in this template.

· All green text includes instructions to support your writing. You should delete all green text before submitting your final paper.

· All blue text indicates areas where you need to replace the instructions with your own information. Replace the blue text with your own words in black.

· Headings and subheadings are written in black, bold type. You may keep these or you may choose to rename them, as long as your titles still align to each section’s content.

In this paper you may write in first person, using “I”, as this is a self-analysis. Usually in academic papers, you will write in the third person, using “he” or “she”. However, in all academic writing, avoid using the second person “you.”

Formatting

· The body of this paper has one-inch margins and uses a professional font (size 10-12); we recommend Arial or Times New Roman fonts

· To aid ease of reading, use double spacing throughout the paper

· Align the manuscript flush left, resulting in an uneven right margin

· Indent paragraphs five spaces (or set your tab to .5)

· Page numbers are one inch from the top right of the paper, with no number on Page 1

Note that this Assignment 1 template is already formatted with all these specifications.

Finalizing your Paper

· Your final paper should be 4 to 6 pages in length. The page count does not include the Cover page at the beginning or the Sources page at the end of the paper.

· The final paper that you submit for grading should be in black text only with all remaining green text and blue text removed .

My Leadership Profile

Write Your Name here

Jack Welch Management Institute

Write Your Professor’s Name here

JWI 510: Leadership in the 21st Century

Write the Date here

Use the sections and sub-sections below to organize your paper. For each section, read the directions in green, which explain what topic to cover in that section. Then delete the green notes and write your paragraph(s) for that section.
Application of course materials is required in this paper. For this assignment, you will want to integrate course material from Weeks 1 to 3. This means you may be including references to course lectures, videos, your textbooks, articles, and your DiSC profile. See the end of the paper, for information and examples of the proper way to format your in-text citations, as well as a sample Sources (or References) page.
Introduction

Start your introduction with a general and brief observation about the importance of leadership in today’s organizations.

Write a thesis statement which is the “road map” for your paper - it helps your reader to navigate your work. In your thesis statement, be specific about the major areas you plan to address in your paper. The headings below are helpful, since those identify the topics to be addressed. We recommend you to write this part of your introduction after you complete the other sections of your paper.

In case you need more help with writing a thesis statement, here are two helpful links:

https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/the_writing_process/thesis_statement_tips.html

OR

http://www.cws.illinois.edu/workshop/writers/tips/thesis/

My Leadership Experiences

This section addresses number 1 from the assignment instructions. Use the following two subsections to organize your ideas. You may choose to write a short paragraph here under the main “My Leadership Experiences” heading that provides some brief context, or you may choose to just begin writing under the first subsection, while keeping the main heading in place.