1. Reflect on the results of the five categorical strengths from your CliftonStrengths assessment, including what those results might indicate about your leadership.B. Evaluate your leadership, using one of the scholarly leadership theories below, by doing the following:• transformational leadership• transactional leadership• situational leadership• participative leadership• servant leadership• behavioral leadership• trait theory of leadership1. Evaluate three strengths of your leadership, using the chosen scholarly leadership theory, including how each strength relates to the theory. Support the evaluation of your strengths with at least one scholarly source.2. Evaluate three weaknesses of your leadership, using the chosen scholarly leadership theory, including how each weakness relates to the theory. Support the evaluation of your weaknesses with at least one scholarly source.3. Recommend three actionable items to improve the effectiveness of your leadership, including how each actionable item relates to the chosen scholarly leadership theory. Support the recommendations of actionable items with at least one scholarly source.Note: A scholarly source could be a reputable journal, a published book, or any source from a university faculty member or business leader. Scholarly sources also include any article or book in the online WGU library.C. Discuss two short-term goals that will help improve your leadership. Adhere to the SMART criteria for each goal: specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and time-bound.1. Discuss at least two specific actions you will take to reach each of the SMART goals discussed in part C.D. Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.E. Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.AnalyticalYour Analytical theme challenges other people: “Prove it. Show me why what you are claiming istrue.” In the face of this kind of questioning some will find that their brilliant theories wither and die. Foryou, this is precisely the point. You do not necessarily want to destroy other people’s ideas, but youdo insist that their theories be sound. You see yourself as objective and dispassionate. You like databecause they are value free. They have no agenda. Armed with these data, you search for patternsand connections. You want to understand how certain patterns affect one another. How do theycombine? What is their outcome? Does this outcome fit with the theory being offered or the situationbeing confronted? These are your questions. You peel the layers back until, gradually, the root causeor causes are revealed. Others see you as logical and rigorous. Over time they will come to you inorder to expose someone’s “wishful thinking” or “clumsy thinking” to your refining mind. It is hopedthat your analysis is never delivered too harshly. Otherwise, others may avoid you when that “wishfulthinking” is their own.Focus“Where am I headed?” you ask yourself. You ask this question every day. Guided by this theme of Focus, you need a clear destination. Lacking one, your life and your work can quickly becomefrustrating. And so each year, each month, and even each week you set goals. These goals thenserve as your compass, helping you determine priorities and make the necessary corrections to getback on course. Your Focus is powerful because it forces you to filter; you instinctively evaluatewhether or not a particular action will help you move toward your goal. Those that don’t are ignored. Inthe end, then, your Focus forces you to be efficient. Naturally, the flip side of this is that it causes youto become impatient with delays, obstacles, and even tangents, no matter how intriguing they appearto be. This makes you an extremely valuable team member. When others start to wander down otheravenues, you bring them back to the main road. Your Focus reminds everyone that if something is nothelping you move toward your destination, then it is not important. And if it is not important, then it isnot worth your time. You keep everyone on point.DeliberativeYou are careful. You are vigilant. You are a private person. You know that the world is anunpredictable place. Everything may seem in order, but beneath the surface you sense the manyrisks. Rather than denying these risks, you draw each one out into the open. Then each risk can beidentified, assessed, and ultimately reduced. Thus, you are a fairly serious person who approacheslife with a certain reserve. For example, you like to plan ahead so as to anticipate what might gowrong. You select your friends cautiously and keep your own counsel when the conversation turns topersonal matters. You are careful not to give too much praise and recognition, lest it be misconstrued.If some people don’t like you because you are not as effusive as others, then so be it. For you, life isnot a popularity contest. Life is something of a minefield. Others can run through it recklessly if theyso choose, but you take a different approach. You identify the dangers, weigh their relative impact,and then place your feet deliberately. You walk with care.ConsistencyBalance is important to you. You are keenly aware of the need to treat people the same, no matterwhat their station in life, so you do not want to see the scales tipped too far in any one person’s favor.In your view this leads to selfishness and individualism. It leads to a world where some people gain anunfair advantage because of their connections or their background or their greasing of the wheels.This is truly offensive to you. You see yourself as a guardian against it. In direct contrast to this worldof special favors, you believe that people function best in a consistent environment where the rulesare clear and are applied to everyone equally. This is an environment where people know what isexpected. It is predictable and evenhanded. It is fair. Here each person has an even chance to showhis or her worth.RelatorRelator describes your attitude toward your relationships. In simple terms, the Relator theme pulls youtoward people you already know. You do not necessarily shy away from meeting new people—in fact,you may have other themes that cause you to enjoy the thrill of turning strangers into friends—but youdo derive a great deal of pleasure and strength from being around your close friends. You arecomfortable with intimacy. Once the initial connection has been made, you deliberately encourage adeepening of the relationship. You want to understand their feelings, their goals, their fears, and theirdreams; and you want them to understand yours. You know that this kind of closeness implies acertain amount of risk—you might be taken advantage of—but you are willing to accept that risk. Foryou a relationship has value only if it is genuine. And the only way to know that is to entrust yourself tothe other person. The more you share with each other, the more you risk together. The more you risktogether, the more each of you proves your caring is genuine. These are your steps toward realfriendship, and you take them willingly.

Instructions Task:  Identify a news article that discusses a current event or social issue that relates to your field of study. Follow the instructions below to explain the issue, provide an additional example of the issue, connect the issue to your field of study, and pose questions about the issue. See the Model for an example.  Outcomes you should achieve by completing this assignment As you complete the tasks required for this assignment, you will be working toward several of the course outcomes: Begin the writing process by exploring a topic (Relates to course outcome 1) Compose paragraphs that explain an event or issue (Relates to course outcome 2) Demonstrate accurate grammar and mechanics in writing (Relates to course outcome 3) Identify a recent and reliable news source and provide APA documentation (Relates to course outcome 4) Number your answers and/or include the assignment questions so your instructor can see that you addressed each part of the assignment. Respond to each of the following. 1. Provide an APA-style reference for the news article you selected. The format for the reference is as follows: Author, A. A. (Year, Month Day). Title of article in sentence case. Title of Newspaper in Title Case and Italics. Retrieved from http://www.newspaperhomepage.com Although the news article should be available through the UMGC Library, provide the URL directly to the newspaper that published the article. An APA reference entry does not link to a library database record. It does include the URL of the newspaper homepage, such as https://www.washingtonpost.com 2.   For your instructor's reference, provide the URL to the article in the UMGC Library. This will be listed as "Document URL" in the library record: 3.   Summarize the article. Explain the event or issue covered in the article, assuming your reader has little or no prior knowledge of it. Answer in 1-2 paragraphs. 4.   Describe a specific real-life situation (other than one discussed in your news article) where the issue at hand has been observed. This could be something that happened to you or someone you know, or it could be a related event in the news. Explain the connection to the event or issue in your news article. Answer in 1-2 paragraphs. 5.   What is your field of study and how do you see it relating to the event or issue in your news article? Answer in one paragraph. 6.   What do you want to know about the issue or event in your news article? List two or more questions that you could pursue as part of your research. Though you are listing two or more questions here, your research should ultimately be focused on a single guiding question. Due DateFeb 2, 2020 11:59 PM