Include the following questions in your interview.

What challenges do you face in maximizing team performance? What do you do to alleviate these challenges?

What are the top 5 leadership skills for successfully building and leading teams?

How do excellent leaders develop followership?

What are some important decision-making strategies that leaders might use? Which of these strategies do you feel is most effective and why?

What are some ethical concerns faced by leaders? How might you deal with these ethical concerns?

In qualitative research, when the data from interviews are analyzed and the findings discussed, the researcher will use some quotes from interviewees to validate the discussion. You will do this in your synthesized discussion, as described below.

Write a 350- to 500-word synthesized discussion on team leadership based on this weeks readings and your interview. Note: The focus of this discussion should be on team leadership, not the interview process.

Include the interview questions and responses in an appendix as a list or tablet. You need to use some interview responses in your synthesized discussion to validate the information from the readings.

Cite the interview responses as personal communication per the APA manual.

Include the signed consent form in an appendix.