ADMN 4111 Journal Guidelines and Rubric
This journal assignment will help you reflect upon what you have learned in this course.
In your journal entry, please discuss the following:
How can you develop and/or adopt a business or organizational strategy to motivate and inspire
employees (whether you are in a formal leadership position or you are working as a fellow
employee among co-workers)? How can you develop and/or adopt a business/organizational
strategy to guide your own career as a leader?
Given our current societal climate (which can also include the impacts on organizations and
businesses), what steps can you take to exercise leadership while encouraging and supporting
the spirit of diversity? What actions might a leader take to demonstrate that their interest in
diversity goes beyond rhetoric?
Ultimately, what steps will you take to develop your own personal leadership style and brand?
And, how will you handle potential challenges in the future?
Submission Guidelines:
Submit assignment as a Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and
one-inch margins. Title page is not required. A reference page is not required; however, if any outside
sources are used, please be sure to cite them using APA or MLA guidelines.
Your assignment should be 3 to 4 paragraphs in length.
Rubric:
Critical Element Proficient Needs Not evident Value
Improvement
Strategy Discusses Discusses Discussion not 30
development for development and development and covered in-depth
motivation and adoption in-depth adoption not with and/or clarity is
leadership career with sufficient sufficient clarity significantly not
guidance. clarity. present.
Diversity and Explains with Lacks clarity in the Does not discuss 30
leadership. clarity and detail discussion of the the diversity and
diversity and diversity and leadership
leadership leadership interrelationship
interrelationship. interrelationship. in-depth/with
significant clarity.
Summative Describes with Lacks clarity in the Does not discuss 30
statement and clarity overall discussion of leadership style,
conclusions on leadership style, leadership style, brand and
leadership style, brand and brand and challenges in-
brand and challenges. challenges. depth/with
challenges. significant clarity.
Articulation of No major errors, Major errors Critical errors 10
response. grammar,
spelling, syntax,
or organization
