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Each student or student team will choose one of the following sites and interview (via Zoom or similar platform) a leader from the organization, then submit a Leadership Interview Essay

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Each student or student team will choose one of the following sites and interview (via Zoom or similar platform) a leader from the organization, then submit a Leadership Interview Essay. If you choose to partner with another student for this assignment, please do so during the FIRST 2 WEEKS of class.

1. For-profit nursing home

2. Nonprofit nursing home

3. Assisted living facility

4. Board and care facility

5. Memory care or Alzheimer facility

6. Continuing care retirement community

7. Area agency on aging

8. Disease specific organization such as the Alzheimer Association

9. State or national AARP office

10. Home health care organization

11. Federal agency on aging such as the National Institute on Aging or the Administration on Aging, 

12. State Department on Aging

13. Foundation that funds aging projects

14. Geriatric clinic

15. Law firm or legal agency that is involved in Elder law

16. PACE program

17. REIT that invests in long-term care facilities

18. Another gerontological program

This assignment is due on September 22, 2021, so the interview should happen anytime in the first three weeks of the semester. Call the facility, community, organization, or agency and ask to speak with the administrator, president, or executive director. Explain that the interview is part of a graduate course focusing on leadership and management in gerontology and tell them that you wish to interview one of their senior employees. Set up a date and time for the interview. Ask them to describe their facility, their mission, goals, challenges, achievements, and their leadership and management style. 

Talk with the President, Administrator, Executive Director, and senior staff about their daily challenges. Ask them how they chose their field of endeavor. Ask about their career trajectory. Find out what they did prior to their current job. Discuss their approach to management. Ask about how they acquired their leadership and management skills. Ask how they responded to COVID 19. Each student must include in their Leadership Interview Essay, the three key leadership traits that made the person they interviewed a great leader. THE FOCUS OF THIS INTERVIEW SHOULD BE ON LEADERSHIP. 

Each student will be assigned a specific week of the semester when they will post their Leadership Interview essay on their Discussion Board and host that week’s discussion on the discussion board. 

Beginning on September 22, 2021, one or more Leadership Interview essays will be posted each week in each discussion board group and will be part of the discussion for those weeks. The students whose interviews are posted that week on the discussion board will host and actively participate in that week’s discussion.

Even if you have a partner for this assignment, each student will write and post their own 1000 word essay summarizing your interview and your key observations. Do not use the name(s) of the people interviewed; you may designate them as Mr. K or Nurse M or Administrator O.