Title: (Optional) Analyze the benefits and risks in assuming a leadership role and other stakeholder roles.
Course: Leadership Development Infusion Unit > Section: Examining Effective Leaders and Stakeholders

Analysis should include using the list of leaders and characteristics generated in the task/competency above to distinguish between leadership benefits and risks.

- Benefits:
  - High achievement; wide recognition
  - Rewards, including money or power
  - Effectiveness, influence on others or satisfaction in working for the benefit of others
- Risks:
  - Sacrifices necessary to maintain position
  - Failure; competition
  - Susceptible to corruption; threat of power becoming an obsession

Process/Skill Questions:

- What is meant by the phrase, “It’s lonely at the top”?
- What characteristics make up an ethical leader?
- How might ethical leaders deal with stakeholders who disagree with them or challenge their position? How might unethical leaders deal with these situations?
- What risks are associated with taking on a leadership role? How do leaders decide when to take risks?