Leadership Vignette – Leadership Styles

This week the leadership vignette will explore eight leadership styles (Contingent, One-Best, Transactional, Transformational, Charismatic, Full Range, Balanced, and Principled). After looking through the leadership styles select two or three leadership styles/approaches that you feel best reflect your preferences and could possibly be your preferred leadership style in the future. Compose a reflective paper that includes the following:

Explain the two or three leadership styles you feel most aligned with.
Describe the major characteristics of the leadership styles that you prefer.
Explain what you might do to incorporate these leadership styles into your overall leadership style.
For each of the three scenarios below, elaborate on how you would handle the situation using your preferred leadership style(s);
One of the teachers in your environment is speaking negatively about a child to other teachers while conversing.
A parent is continually arriving late to pick up their child in your care.
A child is sent to your office daily for episodes of aggression and frustration in the environment.
The Leadership Vignette: Leadership Styles assignment

Must be three to four double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages or slides and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Writing Center (Links to an external site.)‘s APA Style (Links to an external site.) resource.
Must include a separate title page with the following:
Title of paper
Student’s name
Course name and number
Instructor’s name
Date submitted
For further assistance with the formatting and the title page, refer to APA Formatting for Microsoft Word (Links to an external site.).
Must utilize academic voice. See the Academic Voice (Links to an external site.) resource for additional guidance.
Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.
For assistance on writing Introductions & Conclusions (Links to an external site.) as well as Writing a Thesis Statement (Links to an external site.), refer to the Writing Center resources.
Must use at least one credible source in addition to the course text.
The Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources (Links to an external site.) table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.
To assist you in completing the research required for this assignment, view this Quick and Easy Library Research (Links to an external site.) tutorial, which introduces the University of Arizona Global Campus Library and the research process, and provides some library search tips.
Must document any information used from sources in APA style as outlined in the Writing Center’s Citing Within Your Paper (Links to an external site.) guide.
Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Writing Center. See the Formatting Your References List (Links to an external site.) resource in the Writing Center for specifications.