Leadership Challenges Being a leader can be challenging. No matter what the context, being a leader generally requires a lot of decision-making, problem-solving, and managerial abilities in order to accomplish tasks and fulfill necessary responsibilities. Whether or not you have had the opportunity to experience the challenges that come with leadership, with this activity you will have the chance to explore what is involved and try your hand at it! Activity Overview: For this activity, you will be given several different scenarios. You will need to rely on your decision-making skills and problem-solving abilities to determine the best way to handle them. For each of the three scenarios that you are given, please write a minimum of one paragraph explaining: How you would solve the problem or address the issue. Be specific. Please include dialogue to express your thoughts if it seems appropriate and makes sense with the given situation. If you feel that there are several ways to handle any of the scenarios, please discuss all options before settling on one final decision. What, if any, tips or steps from the unit (gather relevant info, identify alternatives, weigh evidence, make a choice and take action, accept the outcome) did you use in order to reach your solution/decision. Be specific and explain. You will also come up with a fourth scenario that could potentially be given to another student to solve. You do not need to write a solution for this fourth scenario, just a basic summary and description similarly formatted to the three given to you. Scenario 1: You are the manager of a small marketing company. One of your employees is dressing inappropriately for an office setting. Other employees are complaining that it is distracting them from their work. You have spoken to the employee about this issue twice, and nothing has changed. The employee is a solid worker and their inappropriate dress is the only issue that you have with them. What do you do? Scenario 2: You are the CEO of a large company. You have a very important deadline coming up on December 26, the day after Christmas, for a large project that is not yet complete. You have a small team of five people that have been working hard on this project for weeks. Initially, you gave each member on the team several days off over the holidays because you anticipated that the project would be completed by then. However, the project is taking longer than expected. It is important to note that the delay in the project’s completion is no one’s fault, and everyone has been working hard. Several members on the team have shared with you their holiday plans and you know that everyone on the team is excited for their promised time off. You cannot complete the project on your own by the deadline and the client is not willing to budge on the due date. What do you do? Scenario 3: You are an assistant manager at a small consulting firm. You ask one of the employees that works for you to drop off a package at the post office after work on Tuesday. The post office is right on his way home, but it is very out of the way for you. The package is especially important, and it must arrive at its destination by the following day: Wednesday, at noon. The package has a document that will be discussed at an important meeting with business partners that will only be in town for one day. Although you will not be at the meeting, your manager and the CEO will be in attendance and both of them have entrusted you with making sure that the package arrives. You find out on Wednesday afternoon that the package never arrived. You are responsible for the mistake. What do you do? Your grade will be based on your thorough and thoughtful answers to the three given scenarios as well as your ability to create a fourth scenario. For more details on how you will be graded, please refer to the rubric below.