You have become comfortable with contemporary leadership competenciesand feel it is time to open your own small business. As a futurebusiness owner, you know that all organizations must be well managed andthat effective leadership is at the core of ensuring that a businessruns smoothly. Reflect on the following questions and write a 3-5 pagereport to help you solidify your thinking and describe your plan forrunning a small business.

• Refer to the DISC behavioral characteristics you identified foryourself in module 01. How will you use two of these characteristics(i.e., values, culture, mission, and vision) to shape your smallbusiness?
• Employees are a business's greatest asset. Refer to the bestleader traits/skills/tactics you identified in module 02. How will youmentor the informal and formal leaders that you hire?
• Identify the leader theory from module 03 that fits you best. Howcan this leader theory help you align business goals, customerexpectations, and employee objectives?
• Refer to the challenges to leading change that you selected inmodule 04. Identify two of these challenges. How will you address thesechallenges to minimize risk for your new business?
• Utilizing the facilitative leadership skills you studied inmodule 05, discuss the three facilitative leadership skills that youthink are the most important for your business. How will you incorporatewhat you learned about facultative leadership into your business sothat employees can successfully run meetings and projects?
• Refer to the leadership skills you presented in module 06, aswell as the other concepts you've studied in the course (e.g., leadertraits, leadership theory, and facilitative leadership skills). How willyou use these to ensure effective leadership in your small business?