Review and complete at least two leadership inventories from the Learning Resources or that your place of employment recommends or uses. Carefully consider and reflect on your personal values and ethics. What personal factors are most important to you in decision making? How do these factors serve as a compass as you navigate challenging situations, relationships with others, and decision making? Consider the characteristics, approaches, styles, traits, and/or attitudes you most hope to exemplify as a leader in the field of early childhood education. As you reflect on these, draw on your personal goals, as well as those advanced in theory and research on effective leadership. Write an analysis in which you do the following: Identify the leadership inventories you took. Summarize the insights gained from these inventories by describing how your results compare to your current leadership approach(es) and/or the type of leader you hope to become. Compare and contrast your personal leadership goals and those advanced in theory and research on effective leadership. Based on your summary of your inventory and description of the impact of your values and ethics, create four to five leadership principles that embody essential, effective leadership in early childhood settings. A leadership principle is a statement that includes or emphasizes a specific leadership quality, characteristic, approach, or style. It may also be a statement that emphasizes a trait or attitude that effective leaders embody. Justify the relevance of each of your principles by describing how these principles are contextually relevant within the field of early childhood education and supportive of your goals as a leader. Finally, explain where you are developmentally with regard to the principles. What do you see as current strengths, and what do you feel would benefit from additional knowledge and practice? Leadership Inventories Leading and . (2016). 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