Ever wonder what your motivation to lead and your goal orientation would look like if you took a...

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Ever wonder what your motivation to lead and your goal orientation would look like if you took a test that measures this? Are you curious what your peers in this course would score on these exercises? Let's start this course off with some interesting exercises that will assess this. (Be sure to complete the initial action items in the lessonbeforestarting this discussion post, i.e. read textbooks and supplemental articles, as well as watch any other weekly assignments).

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Complete the Exercise:"Your Motivation to lead". https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newLDR_01.htm#.WXYuC_Qbh7s.emailto get your score and then click on the x-out when it asks for "Create a Login to Save Your Results..." then scroll down to interpret your score
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or use the attached PDF and score it yourself using strongly disagree as "1" and strongly agree as "5".
Complete the Exercise: "How good is your goal setting"https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/goal-setting-quiz.htm#.WXYw2o3RnfA.emailto get your score and then click on the x-out when it asks for "Create a Login to Save Your Results..." then scroll down to interpret your score
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or use the attached PDF and score it yourself using strongly disagree as "1" and strongly agree as "5".
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Your first post should discuss the following questions in at least 300 words. Using the information you have obtained in #1 and #2, write a short paragraph on each of the following.

Head each section of your post to correspond to the numbers of each question (1, 2) below:

Describe your motivation to lead, and your goal orientation.
Describe the individual differences that are important to you when looking for a team member and the characteristics you would want in a team member.

Original Post: Write an essay illustrating the lesson concepts and explaining your answers. This original post must contain a minimum of 300 words. Students must demonstrate critical thinking by paraphrasing the material into their own words (direct quotes should be used in a limited manner as this does not display critical thinking). All statements in the post that are not general knowledge should be cited to their source. Be sure to clearly relate the readings to the lesson concepts. Students may further synthesize this research relating to personal experiences. All citations should be in APA format with a reference listing at the bottom of the post in APA format.

***Assessments are complete and attached

how-good-is-your-goal-setting-goal-setting-skills-from-mind-tools-omydr5xq.pdf the-leadership-motivation-assessment-leadership-training-from-mindtoolscom-cil4ottj.pdf

Tanmoy · Accepted Answer

Motivation to Lead and Goal Orientation		4
MOTIVATION TO LEAD AND GOAL ORIENTATION
Table of Contents
Introduction	3
Analysis	3
Conclusion	3
References	4
Introduction
	Motivation helps the individuals to conduct activities towards attaining organizational objectives. It is a leader who motivates the team members towards achieving the set goals. Through this discussion we will analyze the motivation to lead and goal orientation along with the qualities and characteristics of the team members. 
Analysis
	Motivation to lead is the role undertaken by the leader along with the responsibilities, training and increasing the leading efforts as well as being consistent being a leader (Chan & Drasgow, 2001). Further, goal orientation has its contribution in achieving the desired goals through motivation and learning through self-regulation (Pintrich, 2000a). Goal orientation are general type of objectives and are subject to changes with respect to the individual performance on the activities (AIPC, 2010). 
According to the how good is your goal setting ability and whether I am missing or meeting the goals, it can be found that the score is 67.

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