Leadership

The process requires weekly demonstration of leadership knowledge development through conference discussion opportunities and leadership self-assessment assignments. The submissions are assessed for accuracy and completeness against project requirements and ensure that the development of leadership knowledge, assessment, and analysis provides a maximum foundation for the sequential portfolio development. The completed personal leadership portfolio correlates with professional homeland security and public safety leadership best practices, resulting in a tangible product that can become a base for future leadership development.

Assessment Sequence

The project is made up of sequential steps that constitute the required actions of semester-long portfolio development. The process assessment utilizes a recommended portfolio document structure.

1.   Gather—the gathering of course and outside leadership materials and resources. 2.   Research—narrowing the focus of academic and anecdotal leadership topics to professional homeland security or public safety leadership topics. 3.   Organize—establish an information-handling process in order to coordinate resources, sources, and gathered data. Monitor for policy topic research completeness through use of an information-handling and organization process. 4.   Analyze and evaluate—compare, contrast, and judge resource material to develop cogent documentation. 5.   Assess—assimilate personal leadership history report results with cogent documentation, demonstrating the nexus between personal leadership history and data with academic and anecdotal resources. This step may also include assessing past leadership opportunities for lessons learned. 6.   Apply—based on steps 1-5, determine personal leadership styles and traits and how the determination can be applied in a professional homeland security or public safety setting. This step will also include personal leadership strengths and challenges for future development. 7.   Create a personal leadership development plan for your future in public safety.

Personal Leadership Portfolio Document Structure and Content Topics

The personal leadership portfolio will be a paper of at least 12 pages (not including the cover and reference page, and attachments), presented in APA (6th edition) format, and structured so as to cover all of the following topics:

· presentation and discussion of academic and anecdotal resource materials

· deconstruction of current homeland security or public safety leadership

· identification of acceptable and effective professional homeland security or public safety leadership principles

· collation of data from personal leadership self-assessment assignments

· comparison and contrast of self-assessment data, to include applicability, with best practices and identified leadership principles

· presentation and discussion of future personal leadership development and opportunity

The completed personal leadership portfolio correlates with professional homeland security and public safety leadership best practices, resulting in a tangible product that can become a base for future leadership development.

The Leadership Portfolio is worth 100 points and is 20% of your grade.