1 UU-PhD-803 UU-PhD-803 ASSESSMENT POINT 1 Assignment 1 - Effective Leadership Brief and Guidelines This week you will be submitting the first summative essay that counts for 20% of your overall grade. In order to complete this task, please read the recommended reading and this week's topic overview carefully and critically assess how leadership style can affect the dynamics of a group. Assessment: What leadership is effective amidst a crisis? Explore leadership within organizations, nations, communities during the pandemic (or similar uncertain scenario) and compare effective to non-effective leadership. COVID-19 pandemic quickly becomes a humanitarian crisis of unimaginable proportion, forcing all leaders, organizations, and nations to rethink handling people and doing business. This uncertainty put leaders to the test on what leadership traits and skills could be of the essence to lead through the pandemic. Nations, businesses, and communities coped to the best of their ability as they dealt with the lingering fear of the never-ending pandemic soon. Employees looked up to their organization leaders and were dissatisfied with their employers for closures, but the reality was that the governments mandated the businesses' closures to contain the spread of the virus. Nations looked up to their leaders for answers, but in uncertain circumstances where there is no script of effective leadership, do skill set exist, or traits become applicable? Leaders were the captain of the shi