Running head: LEADERSHIP LEADERSHIP Assignment 3: Leadership Journey Langqing, Miao (Clinton) Royal Roads University IHMN 354 Milton Almeida Mar 28, 2020 Leadership Journey People can’t be a real leader if they don’t have vision. Vision provides leaders a clear pathway to future by telling them what matter the most. In the meantime, vision is the key indicator for leaders to be success and I want to be a successful leader, too. So, within this paper, I’m going to talk about how I can become a great leader by focusing on my vision statement, two leadership goals toward my vision which are from two aspects, team and personal development. Then, followed by two specific actions to achieve each goal. Lastly, a conclusion at the end of this paper. Firstly, my vision is to be a facilitative leader. This type of leader is focusing on “monitoring group dynamics, as well as offering process suggestions and interventions to help the group stay on track” (Raze, 2017). A facilitative leader is playing a mentor role within the team and focus on “people-centered” (Smith, 2003) work environment. That required leaders be able to distribute tasks based on individual’s strength and deal with conflicts between members who share differ personalities. Therefore, becoming a facilitative leader is not a easy job since a lot of skills and appropriate knowledge are all involved there. So, I have enacted two leadership goals to let my dream come true. My first goal is, I can guide my team members to do the right things with the right methods. Right thing means team members are doing the tasks which match their strength, right methods means my people can apply the most effective way to complete their tasks with my suggestions. I have two actions toward this goal. Firstly, I took too much responsibility in team, so my members were only doing easy jobs with zero benefit to their personal development. In the future, I will assign my members more important tasks such as time tracking and grammar checking based on their strength to ensure they can be benefited from job at hand as practice. Secondly, when my members are facing challenges, rather than do the most difficult jobs for them, I will share my experience as tips to support my members to find their own methods to solve the problems. In the meantime, I will get to know my members better by showing my care to their personal life. After that, my suggestions will be much helpful and effective to them since I know their personalities and strength. Thus, by performing these two actions, my members will be benefited from this team development strategy. My second leadership goal is to do a better job on time management, because it affects the “leaders’ ability to manage effectively in their field of expertise and responsibility” (Danko, 2010). Good timing is an essential trait for facilitative leader in the high-performance team since you need to complete your own tasks and support your mem.

1. Running head: LEADERSHIP
LEADERSHIP
Assignment 3: Leadership Journey
Langqing, Miao (Clinton)
Royal Roads University
IHMN 354
Milton Almeida
Mar 28, 2020
Leadership Journey
People can’t be a real leader if they don’t have vision. Vision
provides leaders a clear pathway to future by telling them what
matter the most. In the meantime, vision is the key indicator for
leaders to be success and I want to be a successful leader, too.
So, within this paper, I’m going to talk about how I can become
a great leader by focusing on my vision statement, two
leadership goals toward my vision which are from two aspects,
team and personal development. Then, followed by two specific
actions to achieve each goal. Lastly, a conclusion at the end of
this paper.
Firstly, my vision is to be a facilitative leader. This type of
leader is focusing on “monitoring group dynamics, as well as
offering process suggestions and interventions to help the group
stay on track” (Raze, 2017). A facilitative leader is playing a
mentor role within the team and focus on “people-centered”
(Smith, 2003) work environment. That required leaders be able
to distribute tasks based on individual’s strength and deal with
conflicts between members who share differ personalities.
Therefore, becoming a facilitative leader is not a easy job since
a lot of skills and appropriate knowledge are all involved there.

2. So, I have enacted two leadership goals to let my dream come
true.
My first goal is, I can guide my team members to do the right
things with the right methods. Right thing means team members
are doing the tasks which match their strength, right methods
means my people can apply the most effective way to complete
their tasks with my suggestions. I have two actions toward this
goal. Firstly, I took too much responsibility in team, so my
members were only doing easy jobs with zero benefit to their
personal development. In the future, I will assign my members
more important tasks such as time tracking and grammar
checking based on their strength to ensure they can be benefited
from job at hand as practice. Secondly, when my members are
facing challenges, rather than do the most difficult jobs for
them, I will share my experience as tips to support my members
to find their own methods to solve the problems. In the
meantime, I will get to know my members better by showing my
care to their personal life. After that, my suggestions will be
much helpful and effective to them since I know their
personalities and strength. Thus, by performing these two
actions, my members will be benefited from this team
development strategy.
My second leadership goal is to do a better job on time
management, because it affects the “leaders’ ability to manage
effectively in their field of expertise and responsibility”
(Danko, 2010). Good timing is an essential trait for facilitative
leader in the high-performance team since you need to complete
your own tasks and support your members at the same time. It is
a big pressure on time. So, my first action plan is to draw a
timeline and label all the processing tasks and upcoming tasks
with different color to distinguish their priority in future team
works. In the meantime, any decision on due day or check point
will be fully discussed with my members and take their
concerns into account. Then, team works will be hewed to the
timeline and supervised by all members. My second action is to
learn the time management skill from other leaders such as

3. Christian and Haley in our class. I want to learn how they
organize tasks and being so methodical even there are changes.
Through the learning process, I believe we all can be benefited
by exchanging ideas and experience.
In conclusion, being a facilitative leader means you are the
mentor to your people. After I achieved these goals, I will have
new goals and actions to bring my leadership into a new stage.
There is a life-time learning happened there and I believe with
both team and personal developments, more practice and
inspiration from people around me, I will be a facilitative leader
in the foreseeable future.
Reference
Danko, M, P. (2010). A phenomenological study of time
management. United States , Phoenix. University of Phoenix.
Retrieved from
https://search.proquest.com/openview/b75d9418f3bf560bebad71
10270f78d3/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y
Raza, A. (2017). 12 Different types of leadership styles.
WiseToast. Retrieved from https://wisetoast.com/types-of-
leadership-styles/

4. Smith, A. (2003). Facilitative leadership. The University of
British Columbia. Retrieved from
https://www.grad.ubc.ca/current-students/professional-
development/facilitative-leadership
ENC 1102 Research Proposal
Prof. Christopher Brown
Final: Research Proposal
Purpose: You will design a research proposal for an independent
study that would last 3 to 6 months. The study you are
proposing will be designed and implemented by you with the
resources of a college, university or another relevant
organization with the intent of writing a publication based on
your findings after your 3-6 months of proposed research.
For this assignment, you are only expected to “pitch” your study
to a professor or professional in your area interest. To do so,
you will need to write an informative and persuasive essay
detailing:
A.) an understanding of the current writing and research around
your selected topic,
B.) a methodology for an effective study with a clearly
identified research need, and
C.) a full examination of the costs and concerns of conducting a
study that will lead to valuable information for the field for
which your study is designed.
You are not expected to complete the study you are proposing,
but the final proposal must be “actionable”. This means that
anyone should be able to use your research proposal to build the
study you are suggesting.
If an academic study sounds uninteresting, remember that social
programs, governmental initiatives, and corporations alike rely
on well-designed research studies, and the information these
studies provide help do everything from building better roads to
creating new social initiatives.

5. Note: For this assignment, no grades will be revised.
· Topic Proposal and Outline (25 pts)-
· Title and other subheaders for each section of your proposal
· Central research question or thesis statement
· Introduction (at least 1 paragraph): introduce the area of
interest, importance, and what work needs doing
· Purpose and scope (at least 1 paragraph): outline your purpose
and explain to what depth you will investigate
· Resources and requirements (at least 1 paragraph): take a
researched guess at how long the research would take, how
much it would cost, what is possible in 3-6 mo.
· Keywords and potential sources: find at least 4 ACADEMIC
authors that are working on the topic/issue you have chosen and
discuss their work with at least one sentence each, provide
enough information to find the source/citation
· Annotated Bibliography (25 pts) –
· 8 sources you will use cited in MLA format
· 4 of the above sources must be found in academic journals or
books via our library database
· 2-4 sentences of summary for each source, indicate the
purpose of including the source in your proposal
· Full Draft (100 pts)-
· Grammar/Mechanics
· Complete introduction with purpose, scope, and requirements
fully explained using citations and details from related studies
· Study Overview: What kind of study will your research
perform? Where and how will it take place? What will be
learned and who might find this information be helpful? What
problems might you encounter? What future work may need to
be done?
· At least 4 academic sources cited and included in argument
· Bibliography
· Final (150 pts)-
· All of the above (Full Draft rubric) in MLA format
Links:
Guide from class:

6. http://libguides.usc.edu/writingguide/researchproposal
Academic Examples:
https://www.bcps.org/offices/lis/researchcourse/develop_write_
sample.html
Common components of a research essay:
http://guides.library.illinois.edu/c.php?g=504643&p=3454882