Leadership Development Plan Part I: Assignment Guidelines
Length: Three to four pages (not including title page), double spaced, Times New Roman 12-point type, one-inch margins.
Value: 25 points
Objective:
In this project, you will have the opportunity to strengthen your leadership capacity in two key areas: 1) building trust as a leader 2) developing another leadership skill of your choice.
Through reflection, goal setting, and practice, you will create and execute a personal leadership development plan. This is the first of two papers for this project.
Instructions:
Watch the LinkedIn Learning course “Building Trust” – click the hyperlink. You will be asked to sign in with your Suffolk credentials.
Choose one additional leadership skill from page 2 of this document that you would like to work on this semester. Watch the videos associated with your chosen skill on Blackboard.
As you take notes on the videos, think about how this content relates to your own leadership experiences and future goals, as well as where you are currently strong and where you have room to improve.
Develop four steps you can take to develop these two leadership skills – this is your action plan.
Two action steps should be related to developing trust.
Describe one action step you can practice this semester, and one action step that is longer term (that you could work on over the next year).
Two action steps should be related to the additional skill you chose. Again, create one short-term action step you can work on now and one longer-term action step for later.
Recommended structure for the paper:
SECTION ONE:
(approximately 1 page) Evaluate your current leadership experiences. Where in your life have you demonstrated leadership?
Consider both formal and informal leadership experiences you have had at school, work, and/or in your personal life. Also, describe a leader that has made a significant positive impact on your life.
This could be someone you have personally interacted with or someone you don’t know but who has influenced you. What is it about this person that makes them someone you look up to as a role model?
SECTION TWO:
(approximately ½ to 1 page)
Discuss what you have learned from the LinkedIn Learning videos about developing trust.
Why is trust such a critical issue in leadership? Provide a summary of the key points that you feel are the most important and how they relate to your own leadership development.
Based on what you have learned, what are your current strengths and areas to improve in developing trust?
SECTION THREE:
(approximately 1 page)
Describe the additional skill you chose for this project and what you have learned about it from the LinkedIn Learning videos. Provide a summary of the key points that you feel are the most important and how they relate to your own leadership development. Based on what you have learned, what are your current strengths and areas to improve in this skill?
SECTION FOUR:
(use the template provided on page 4 of this document) Finally, describe your four-step action plan. We will use the concept of SMART goals this semester: you are more likely to meet your goals when they are Specific, Measurable,
Actionable, Realistic and Time-bounded. You are welcome to use recommendations from the LinkedIn Learning videos as a starting point for your action plan but be sure to customize with detail that is relevant to you.
Leadership Skills (choose one)
The LinkedIn Learning videos assigned for each skill are hyperlinked below – you will be directed to log in with your Suffolk credentials to access the videos. You are only responsible for the video(s) associated with the one skill you choose for this project.
Choose one of these skills if you want to strengthen your leadership through communication:
Communicating about Sensitive Topics
Communicating about Culturally Sensitive Issues
Communication Skills for Critical Moments
High-stakes Communication
Effective Listening
Effective Listening
Public Speaking/Presentation skills (Beginner level)
Public Speaking Foundations
Public Speaking/Presentation skills (Intermediate level)
Creating and Giving Business Presentations
Strengthening Overall Communication
Communication Foundations
These skill topics relate to preparing and strengthening our minds, self-concepts, and attitudes as leaders:
Building resilience and adaptability
Enhancing Resilience
Creativity: Gaining Confidence in Your New Ideas
Banish Your Inner Critic to Unleash Creativity
Developing a Growth Mindset for Leadership Success
Cultivating a Growth Mindset
Developing Strategic Thinking
Strategic Thinking
AND
Cultivating Mental Agility
Harnessing Your Energy for Leadership and Career Success
Recharge Your Energy for Peak Performance
Increasing Attention and Focus
Improving Your Focus
Making Better Decisions in Life and Leadership
Critical Thinking
One of these skills might be a good choice if you want to build more effective interpersonal and relational leadership:
Assertiveness: Finding Your Voice as a Leader
Learning to Be Assertive
Collaborative Leadership
Collaboration Principles and Process
Developing Cross-cultural Intelligence
Developing Cross-Cultural Intelligence
Developing Emotional Intelligence
Developing Your Emotional Intelligence
Developing Professional Presence
Developing Executive Presence
Leading through Building Relationships
Leading Through Relationships
Persuasion and Influence
Persuading Others
AND
Communicating to Drive People to Take Action
ACTION PLAN TEMPLATE for Section Four of your paper:
Developing trust as a leader
Action Step 1: Short-term (to be completed by the end of this semester)
Describe your action step:
Describe the timeline for your activity (how often, by when, etc.):
Describe where, when, and from whom you will get feedback on your progress:
Action Step #2: Longer-term (to be completed within the next year)
Describe your action step:
Describe the timeline for your activity (how often, by when, etc.):
Describe where, when, and from whom you will get feedback on your progress:
Your additional skill for this project:
Action Step #3: Short-term (to be completed by the end of this semester)
Describe your action step:
Describe the timeline for your activity (how often, by when, etc.):
Describe where, when, and from whom you will get feedback on your progress:
Action Step #4: Longer-term (to be completed within the next year)
Describe your action step:
Describe the timeline for your activity (how often, by when, etc.):
Describe where, when, and from whom you will get feedback on your progress:
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