1.

In your main post:

1. Evaluate the meeting of lead based on the definition of go, travel, guide, using a criminal justice organization as a point of focus.
2. Describe the role of leadership based on values as the stage for action.
3. Explore the role of leadership in operationalizing goals to release the energy.
4. Determine how the actions of leaders, specific to values and goals, affect what individuals do within an organization.

Reference

Kouzes, J. M., & Posner, B. Z. (2017). The leadership challenge: How to make extraordinary things happen in organizations (6th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.

2.

In your main post:

1. Determine whether leaders are born or made, based on research.
2. Explain the implications of leaders being born rather than made.
3. Analyze the four moral goals of leadership in terms of skills, approaches, and impacts on stakeholders.
4. Apply the four moral goals of leadership to a criminal justice leadership position example.

Reference

Gardner, J. (1993). On leadership. New York, NY: The Free Press.

3.

In your main post:

• Explain what George Steiner’s statement means to you.
• Determine the implications of failure to engage in forward planning using a specific criminal justice setting as a point of reference.
• Lay out three best practices for forward planning in a criminal justice context.

Reference

Steiner, G. A. (1979). Strategic management: What every manager must know. New York, NY: The Free Press.

4.

• based on Competencies 1–5.
• Explain how you will use those concepts, skills, or insights in your current or future career.
• Express how the capstone course has changed your perspectives in a criminal justice career context.

Discussion Objectives

• Competency 1: Apply an ethics-centered, evidence-based analysis to complex situations encountered by criminal justice practitioners.
• Competency 2: Explain the antecedents and consequences of crime in the broader context of interdisciplinary knowledge.
• Competency 3: Integrate theoretical, scientific, and practical methods in application to solve problems relevant to criminal justice.
• Competency 4: Describe effective conflict resolution techniques for culturally diverse group interactions.
• Competency 5: Assess the ethical, community-focused leadership skills required for successful criminal justice practitioners in a wide range of interactions.