Discussion Personal Leadership Philosophies
Discussion Personal Leadership Philosophies
Many of us can think of leaders we have come to admire, be they historical figures, pillars of the industry we work in, or leaders we know personally. The leadership of individuals such as Abraham Lincoln and Margaret Thatcher has been studied and discussed repeatedly. However, you may have interacted with leaders you feel demonstrated equally competent leadership without ever having a book written about their approaches.
What makes great leaders great? Every leader is different, of course, but one area of commonality is the leadership philosophy that great leaders develop and practice. A leadership philosophy is basically an attitude held by leaders that acts as a guiding principle for their behavior. While formal theories on leadership continue to evolve over time, great leaders seem to adhere to an overarching philosophy that steers their actions. Discussion Personal Leadership Philosophies
What is your leadership philosophy? In this Assignment, you will explore what guides your own leadership.
To Prepare: Discussion Personal Leadership Philosophies
- Identify three scholarly resources that evaluate the impact of leadership behaviors in creating healthy work environments.
- Reflect on the leadership behaviors presented in the three resources that you selected for review.
- Reflect on your results of the CliftonStrengths Assessment, and consider how the results relate to your leadership traits.
The Assignment (2-3 pages): Discussion Personal Leadership Philosophies
Personal Leadership Philosophies
Develop and submit a personal leadership philosophy that reflects what you think are characteristics of a good leader. Use the scholarly resources on leadership you selected to support your philosophy statement. Your personal leadership philosophy should include the following:
- A description of your core values
- A personal mission/vision statement
- An analysis of your CliftonStrengths Assessment summarizing the results of your profile
- A description of two key behaviors that you wish to strengthen
- A development plan that explains how you plan to improve upon the two key behaviors you selected and an explanation of how you plan to achieve your personal vision. Be specific and provide examples.
Discussion: Personal Leadership Philosophies
The response describes a set of core values. The response describes a set of core values that is vague or inaccurate. The response describes a set of core values that is vague and inaccurate, or is missing. The response describes a personal mission/vision statement that is vague or inaccurate. The response describes a personal mission/vision statement that is vague and inaccurate, or is missing. The response accurately and completely describes in detail a personal mission/vision statement. Discussion Personal Leadership Philosophies
The response describes a personal mission/vision statement. · A description of your core values. · A personal mission/vision statement. · Analysis of your CliftonStrengths Assessment summarizing the results of your pro”le. · A description of two key behaviors you wish to strengthen. · A development plan that explains how you plan to improve upon the two key behaviors you selected and an explanation of how you plan to achieve your personal vision. Be speci”c and provide examples. 14 (14%) – 15 (15%) 12 (12%) – 13 (13%) 11 (11%) – 11 (11%) 0 (0%) – 10 (10%) The response accurately and completely provides an analysis and detailed summary of the CliftonStrengths Assessment. The response accurately provides an analysis and summary of the CliftonStrengths Assessment. Discussion Personal Leadership Philosophies
The response provides an analysis and summary of the CliftonStrengths Assessment that is vague or inaccurate. The response accurately and thoroughly describes in detail two key behaviors to strengthen. The response describes two key behaviors to strengthen. The response describes two key behaviors to strengthen that is vague or inaccurate. The response provides an analysis and summary of the CliftonStrengths Assessment that is vague and inaccurate, or is missing. 50 (50%) – 55 (55%) 44 (44%) – 49 (49%) 39 (39%) – 43 (43%) 0 (0%) – 38 (38%)
An accurate, complete, and detailed development plan is provided that thoroughly explains plans to improve upon the two key behaviors selected. An accurate development plan is provided that explains plans to improve upon the two key behaviors selected. Discussion Personal Leadership Philosophies
A development plan is provided that explains plans to improve upon the two key behaviors selected that is vague or inaccurate. A development plan is provided that explains plans to improve upon the two key behaviors selected that is vague and inaccurate, or is missing. The responses explain plans on how to achieve a personal vision and may include some examples that are vague or inaccurate. The responses e xplain plans on how to achieve a personal vision that is vague and inaccurate, does not include any examples, or is missing. Discussion Personal Leadership Philosophies
The response includes information gleaned from 2 or 3 sources that may support how to achieve a personal vision. The response does not include any additional information gleaned from outside sources, or is missing. The responses accurately and thoroughly explain in detail plans on how to achieve a personal vision with speci!c and accurate examples.
The response includes a comprehensive synthesis of information gleaned from sources that fully support how to achieve a personal vision. Integrates 2 or more credible outside sources, in addition to 2 or 3 course-speci!c resources to fully support the responses provided. The responses explain plans on how to achieve a personal vision and may include some speci!c examples. The response includes a synthesis of information gleaned from sources that may support how to achieve a personal vision. Integrates 1 credible outside source, in addition to 2 or 3 course-speci!c resources which may support the responses provided. The response describes two key behaviors to strengthen that is vague and inaccurate, or is missing.
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Contains several (3 or 4) grammar, spelling, and punctuation errors. Contains many (≥ 5) grammar, spelling, and punctuation errors that interfere with the reader’s understanding. 5 (5%) – 5 (5%) 4 (4%) – 4 (4%) 3.5 (3.5%) – 3.5 (3.5%) 0 (0%) – 3 (3%) Uses correct APA format with no errors. Contains a few (1 or 2) APA format errors. Contains several (3 or 4) APA format errors. Contains many (≥ 5) APA format errors. Correct grammar, mechanics, and proper punctuation Written Expression and Formatting – Discussion: Personal Leadership Philosophies
The paper follows correct APA format for title page, headings, font, spacing, margins, indentations, page numbers, parenthetical/in-text citations, and reference list. Total Points: 100 Name: NURS_6053_Module03_Week06_Assignment_Rubric EXIT amed abdullah Your Signature Theme Report SURVEY COMPLETION DATE: 06-26-2020 DON CLIFTON Father of Strengths Psychology and Inventor of CliftonStrengths 59703538 (amed abdullah) Copyright © 2000, 2006-2012 Gallup, Inc. All rights reserved. 1 amed abdullah SURVEY COMPLETION DATE: 06-26-2020 Many years of research conducted by The Gallup Organization suggest that the most effective people are those who understand their strengths and behaviors. Discussion Personal Leadership Philosophies
These people are best able to develop strategies to meet and exceed the demands of their daily lives, their careers, and their families. A review of the knowledge and skills you have acquired can provide a basic sense of your abilities, but an awareness and understanding of your natural talents will provide true insight into the core reasons behind your consistent successes. Your Signature Themes report presents your five most dominant themes of talent, in the rank order revealed by your responses to StrengthsFinder. Of the 34 themes measured, these are your “top five.” Your Signature Themes are very important in maximizing the talents that lead to your successes. Discussion Personal Leadership Philosophies
By focusing on your Signature Themes, separately and in combination, you can identify your talents, build them into strengths, and enjoy personal and career success through consistent, near-perfect performance. Woo Woo stands for winning others over. Discussion: Personal Leadership Philosophies
You enjoy the challenge of meeting new people and getting them to like you. Strangers are rarely intimidating to you. On the contrary, strangers can be energizing. You are drawn to them. You want to learn their names, ask them questions, and find some area of common interest so that you can strike up a conversation and build rapport. Discussion Personal Leadership Philosophies
Some people shy away from starting up conversations because they worry about running out of things to say. You don’t. Not only are you rarely at a loss for words; you actually enjoy initiating with strangers because you derive satisfaction from breaking the ice and making a connection. Once that connection is made, you are quite happy to wrap it up and move on. Discussion Personal Leadership Philosophies
There are new people to meet, new rooms to work, new crowds to mingle in. In your world there are no strangers, only friends you haven’t met yet—lots of them. Positivity You are generous with praise, quick to smile, and always on the lookout for the positive in the situation. Some call you lighthearted. Others just wish that their glass were as full as yours seems to be. But either way, people want to be around you. Their world looks better around you because your enthusiasm is contagious. Lacking your energy and optimism, some find their world drab with repetition or, worse, heavy 59703538 (amed abdullah) Copyright © 2000, 2006-2012 Gallup, Inc. All rights reserved. 2 with pressure. Discussion Personal Leadership Philosophies
You seem to find a way to lighten their spirit. You inject drama into every project. You celebrate every achievement. You find ways to make everything more exciting and more vital. Some cynics may reject your energy, but you are rarely dragged down. Your Positivity won’t allow it. Somehow you can’t quite escape your conviction that it is good to be alive, that work can be fun, and that no matter what the setbacks, one must never lose one’s sense of humor. Includer “Stretch the circle wider.” This is the philosophy around which you orient your life. Discussion Personal Leadership Philosophies
You want to include people and make them feel part of the group. In direct contrast to those who are drawn only to exclusive groups, you actively avoid those groups that exclude others. You want to expand the group so that as many people as possible can benefit from its support. You hate the sight of someone on the outside looking in. You want to draw them in so that they can feel the warmth of the group. Discussion Personal Leadership Philosophies
You are an instinctively accepting person. Regardless of race or sex or nationality or personality or faith, you cast few judgments. Judgments can hurt a person’s feelings. Why do that if you don’t have to? Your accepting nature does not necessarily rest on a belief that each of us is different and that one should respect these differences. Rather, it rests on your conviction that fundamentally we are all the same. Discussion Personal Leadership Philosophies
We are all equally important. Thus, no one should be ignored. Each of us should be included. It is the least we all deserve. Discussion: Personal Leadership Philosophies
Arranger You are a conductor. When faced with a complex situation involving many factors, you enjoy managing all of the variables, aligning and realigning them until you are sure you have arranged them in the most productive configuration possible. In your mind there is nothing special about what you are doing. You are simply trying to figure out the best way to get things done. But others, lacking this theme, will be in awe of your ability. “How can you keep so many things in your head at once?” they will ask. “How can you stay so flexible, so willing to shelve well-laid plans in favor of some brand-new configuration that has just occurred to you?”
But you cannot imagine behaving in any other way. You are a shining example of effective flexibility, whether you are changing travel schedules at the last minute because a better fare has popped up or mulling over just the right combination of people and resources to accomplish a new project. From the mundane to the complex, you are always looking for the perfect configuration. Of course, you are at your best in dynamic situations. Discussion Personal Leadership Philosophies
Confronted with the unexpected, some complain that plans devised with such care cannot be changed, while others take refuge in the existing rules or procedures. You don’t do either. Instead, you jump into the confusion, devising new options, hunting for new paths of least resistance, and figuring out new partnerships—because, after all, there might just be a better way. 59703538 (amed abdullah) Copyright © 2000, 2006-2012 Gallup, Inc. Discussion Personal Leadership Philosophies
All rights reserved. 3 Communication You like to explain, to describe, to host, to speak in public, and to write. This is your Communication theme at work. Ideas are a dry beginning. Events are static. You feel a need to bring them to life, to energize them, to make them exciting and vivid. And so you turn events into stories and practice telling them. Discussion Personal Leadership Philosophies
You take the dry idea and enliven it with images and examples and metaphors. You believe that most people have a very short attention span. They are bombarded by information, but very little of it survives. You want your information—whether an idea, an event, a product’s features and benefits, a discovery, or a lesson—to survive. You want to divert their attention toward you and then capture it, lock it in. This is what drives your hunt for the perfect phrase. This is what draws you toward dramatic words and powerful word combinations. This is why people like to listen to you. Your word pictures pique their interest, sharpen their world, and inspire them to act. 59703538 (amed abdullah) Copyright © 2000, 2006-2012 Gallup, Inc. All rights reserved. 4 …Discussion: Personal Leadership Philosophies