For this weeks Assignment, review the Learning Resources. Complete one of the assessments (e.g., Turning Point Assessment) of your leadership style and competencies. Use the results from the assessment as a starting point for developing your leadership development plan. The Assignment (35 pages): Complete a leadership development plan that includes the following:

Section I

Your current strengths and weaknesses as a leader Opportunities and threats to developing and further enhancing your leadership capacity as a change agent (e.g., social change) Justify your responses with specific examples.

Section II

Using the Public Health Leadership Competency Framework, developed by the National Public Health Leadership Network as a guide (refer to the article posted in the weekly Resources), describe a leadership plan to develop the following over the next 35 years. Include the following: Your core transformational competencies (visionary leadership, sense of mission, effective change agent) Political competencies (political processes, negotiation, ethics and power, marketing and education) Organizational competencies Team-building competencies Personality factors Crisis abilities