Think about a time when you experienced failure as a leader in your organizational life when you were less effective than you should have been while managing yourself and/or other people. Examples might include failure to secure an important client, stalled promotion, frustrating project management or team management experience, inability to manage upwards, difficult colleague or subordinate, etc.

-Briefly describe the situation and analyze the contributing factors that made you less than effective.

-What is important is the thoughtful analysis of what caused you to be ineffective in that leadership situation?

-Suggest alternative courses of action given the learning from the course

-Following questions should be answered:

1.  Failure is well-defined and meaningful. (20%)

2.  Contributing factors can be linked to failure. (20%)

3.  After reflection, what caused you to be ineffective as a leader? (20%)

4.  What alternative courses of action could you take to prevent the failure from happening in the future? (40%)