22 Jan Be sure to pay close attention

o What are you doing to continually build your leadership capacity?

o What do you want your legacy to be?

http : //www. au. af. mil/au/awc/awc gate/milrevi ew/leboeuf. htm.

http://www.academvleadership.com/LeadershipPhilosophv/ ) click on “View Samples” to

download some examples.

* The Culture Engine. used by permission of the author.

Leadership Philosophy-NOTE: This should not be left for the last week to begin, in fact see

bold below. I suggest starting that activity Week 1!

The benefits of developing a leadership philosophy -for an individual leader or an organization include:*

> lt makes a promise that the individual leader is now bound to deliver upon. The leader

understands the minimum standard he/she is expected to hit with his/her leadership efforts. lndividual leaders can reflect daily on their plans, decisions, and actions to gauge how well they

are living their leadership standards. A proactive part of this reflection would be engaging key

players in conversations about how the leader’s efforts are perceived by those players.

Create Your Personal Leadership Philosophy

> An effective leadership philosophy is different than your personal purpose, values, and valued

behaviors. While your leadership philosophy will be built upon the foundation your clear

personal purpose and values statement creates, it is specific to your leadership efforts (in the

workplace, in a community organization, wherever you are taking a leadership role).

Let’s define an effective leadership philosophy as a values-aligned statement that helps you

inspire consistent high performance and positive relationships with all of your team members,

every day. lt is NOT espousing leadership theorles from recent business book (or even HBRs

readings). Rather, it is developing your own personal, authentic, philosophy that derives from

your core beliefs. I would hope that the materials you are exposed to in this course will aid in

your journey.

Therefore, reflect on the readings, videos, audio, personal insight activities, assignments and

discussion we have been exposed to over the last six plus weeks (see your journals!).

In addition, take the StrengthsFinder 2.O Assessment (see back of Strengths Based Leodership

for access code). Read and reflect on your strengths. Read and reflect on pages 1-95 of that

text as well as the “additional resources” as they pertain to your strengths & leadership

growth. Feel free to include thoughts on these in your weekly journals (not required).

ln a paper (no more than 10 pages, 12pt font, double spaced) respond to the following

questions and any other you feel are important:

o As a leader, what are your highest values?

o What’s the contribution you want to make as a leader

o What makes you distinct as a leader?

o Drawing from StrengthsFinder 2.0 what are your strengths as a leader?

o Describe your plan for building trust, showing compassion, providing stability and

creating hope?

o What are five words or phrases people would use to describe your leadership style?

o How would people of different levels describe their relationship with you?

o How are you building your influencing capital?

o How do you want to treat People?

o How will you build your team?

o How will you ensure yourteam’s engagement?

o How do you approach (and delegate) tasks?

Leadership Philosophy R

Criteria

adership Philoso

Questions/Components

Addressed (35%)

Leadership Statement

[300/o)

Formatting & Citations

(L5o/o)

Grammar & Mechanics

(20Vo)

Late Work Policy

bric

Not Acceptable

Incomplete

does not

contain basic

section

contents of

leadership

philosophy

Made weak

statement, or

did not

articulate

philosophy

effectively.

Formatting is

inappropriate

for document.

Citations are

non existent

Document over

all is written

poorly with too

grammar or

spelling errors.

Acceptable

Includes at

least three

sections for

leadership

philosophy.

Included

components of

leadership

philosophy

Formatting is

appropriate

for document,

minimal

citations.

Document

over all is

written clearly

in some detail

with no

grammar or

spelling

errors. Some

passive voice.

Proficient

More than three

sections of

leadership

philosophy and

fully developed

comprehension

ofthe content

sections

Included

components of

leadership

philosophy and

elaborated on

three or more in

detail

Formatting is

appropriate for

document. Uses

a variety of

layout and

design

techniques and

includes variety

of resources.

Document over

all is written

clearly in good

detail with no

grammar or

spelling errors.

Minimal passive

voice well

developed

paragraphs

Exemplary

Including all

sections, fully

developed with

appropriate

introductions

for each section

Included all

components

and elaborated

on each with

clarity and

detail.

Formatting is

appropriate for

document.

Shows some

creative

expression in

the layout and

design and

variety of

resources and

citations.

Document over

all is written

clearly in some

great detail

with no

grammar or

spelling errors.

Used topic

sentences to

develop

paragraphs and

active voice.

Be sure to pay close attention to deadlines-there will be no make-up

assignments or quizzes, or late work accepted without a serious and

compelling reason and instructor approval.