Application for Classroom Business Leader Competency Analysis Activity

Activity Learning Objective Through researching the life and career of a well-known business leader, students: build their understanding and appreciation for how REFLECT-inspired competencies impact one’s professional experiences and legacy apply learning, as appropriate, to their own career development needs and goals.

Activity Description This activity helps to cement students’ comprehensive understanding of the REFLECT competencies and their “real world” demonstration among business leaders. Students identify a business leader and conduct detailed research on his/her life and work, citing examples of his/her competency strengths and gaps. Student projects also yield new distinctions regarding the impact and implications of their own competency strengths and weaknesses as future business leaders.

General Overview for Students Example – Chris Completes Steve Jobs Competency Analysis Process  Leader name selection and submission for documentation  Preliminary bibliography submission  Variety of source material encouraged  Autobiographical and biographical  Ongoing research  Optional mid-term class debrief  Final paper submission  Culminating class discussion

Activity Modification or Challenge Opportunities (if applicable) Modification  Group project as opposed to individual, focusing on two business leaders Challenge  Two business leader analyses instead of one  Competency “research” is narrow and aligned with student’s own competency strengths and areas for development  Final paper includes additional component in which student “re-writes history.”

Final Paper Grading Considerations Did student “get to know” his/her leader? Did student conduct thorough research? Did student effectively capture and provide evidence for leader competency strengths and “weaknesses?” Did student’s effectively assess and address the leader’s competency strengths and “weaknesses? Did student apply learning about leader to:  “fictional” job/news interviews  the student’s own career and opportunities for development