Final paper

Personal Strategic Leadership Plan Assignment

The culminating assignment for this course should be a practical application of what you have learned about yourself and leadership. It should include your values, vision, and mission for the future in your vocation, life role, and/or volunteer work.  You may choose to begin your paper with a description of yourself including, but not limited to, your personality type, temperament, and preferred leadership style(s).  You may want to review your past readings, papers, and discussions to organize your thoughts.  Next, you should describe your future plans for leadership.  Since this is a personal plan, you should choose your leadership topic.  It could focus on a short-term or long-term project you are working on, an opportunity for leadership (volunteer or paid), your goals for personal leadership capacity and building at home or with family and friends, future career or vocational goals, or even short-term plan at school. 

The length of the paper should be between 5-6 pages, double-spaced, 12 font.  You are encouraged to use some of the writing you have already completed in your writing assignments when writing this paper.  For instance you have already written about your personality type - you can and should use this information in this final paper. 

 

Below are some questions for you to ponder while writing your paper.  Points will be given for covering the majority of these questions.  It is not necessary to answer them all as they may not all apply to your particular situation or context. 

 

What were your PLSI and temperament results?  What roles do they have in your future leadership?  Where were your strengths and weaknesses in your SLPI results?  What would you like to be better able to do? What actions would you like to take? How will you improve your leadership skills? What obstacles will you face? What can you do about those obstacles? What feedback did you receive from others that may be helpful?  What did you learn about yourself in this course? What do you now see as your strengths?  What do you now see as your areas for improvement?  On which practices do you think you need to work the most (model the way, inspire a shared vision, challenge the process, enable others to act, encourage the heart)?  How will you know when your goals have been achieved?  And, lastly based on your experience, which leadership practice and behaviors will be your next priority and why?

 

The rubric: 20 - 25 points The topic is clearly stated and fully developed. The paper reflects thoughtful insight and integration of readings and discussions from class, and applies several theories and concepts to personal context. Specific examples of the change initiative are provided as well as practical suggestions for improvement. The paper is well written, and reflects proper grammar, punctuation and spelling. Proper credit is given in citations.

 

13-19 points The topic is clearly stated but not fully developed. There is some reflection but it lacks creative or intellectual thought. Class readings and/or discussions are not adequately integrated or developed or applied to practice. The paper reflects some grammar, punctuation and spelling errors.

 

6-12 points The paper reflects some insight and exploration of the topic but lacks integration of the class readings and discussions. The paper reflects personal views but does not sufficiently reflect differing opinions or insight on the topic.

 

1–5 points There is little or no insight on the topic. The paper lacks focus and any integration of class readings or discussions. The paper lacks a proper introduction, development of the topic, relevance to the big picture, and concluding thoughts.

 

0 points or less No paper is handed in. It is plagiarized or unintelligible.