Your leadership philosophy statement for this class is an explanation of the way you see yourself as an emerging leader. Your philosophy guides your actions, behaviors, and thoughts as a leader in your work or community. This assignment is designed to help you synthesize all the concepts from this course and apply each to your growing professional skill set. Reflecting on the content from this course, write your unique philosophy statement in a minimum of 2-3 complete pages, double-spaced in Word. A title page is required and not included in page count. Utilize 12-point font and one-inch margins.
This assignment does not require citations/reference page and should be 100% original work and not copied from online sources or from your prior assignments. I am looking for you to express yourself with new insight in the final paper.
Thoroughly address each of the 5 prompts below in separate paragraphs. Include strong supporting detail from our course content.
Leadership Objective: What are your long-range leadership goals/career plans? What specific steps will you take to reach these goals?
Leadership Philosophy: Describe your definition of leadership. Include in your definition which leadership theory from Unit One that your views most closely aligns (e.g., Situational, Participatory, Great Man etc..). How does your leadership definition fit with your future career plans?
Leadership Strengths: Describe which of your leadership strengths based on your MBTI results/interviews will be advantageous in your future career.
Leadership Competencies: Describe what you value or uphold most for each of the four leadership competencies explored in this class (Social, Ethical, Emotional & Cultural). Be sure to include what aspects of each competence is most important to you and how these are necessary in your future career.
Leadership Development: Describe what areas of your leadership that you plan to enhance or improve upon to support your future goals. For example, you may write that you lack experience interacting in a professional manner. Your plan to improve this may be to join a community organization to build your networking skills. Make sure you describe how these skills are necessary in your future career.
