Final Project

The final assignment in this course consists of your taking what you have learned in each unit, combined with the data from the videos, from what you collected about your strengths and weaknesses (profiles, assessment activities, notes in your notebook/journal),andusing those to develop your Personal Leadership Development Plan (PLDP).

This plan is an important document. Date the document. Keep it somewhere safe and revisit it on a regular basis.

The elements of yourPLDPmust include the following (6-7 pages).

Be sure to label each item below:

• Summarize your strengths and weaknesses as a managerial leader as described in the CVF.
• Include a chart showing your competencies from strongest to weakest. Note which competencies are grouped close to each other as your strongest areas. Also note which competencies are grouped close to each other as your weakest areas.
• Describe any common themes in your strongest areas.
• Describe any common themes in your weakest areas.
• From the group of weakest areas, identify the two that are the least weak. (You will see more progress and growth if you start working on an area that is not the weakest.)
• Provide examples that demonstrate your weakness in these two areas.
• Discuss what you would look like as a manager/leader if these two weak areas became stronger. That is, discuss how your leadership approach would change if you became stronger in these two areas.

Reference:

Quinn, R. E., Bright, D. S., McGrath, M. R., Thompson, M. P., & Faerman, S. R. (2015).Becoming a Master Manager: A Competing Values Approach. Wiley.