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Reflected Best-Self Paper Guidelines

Reflected Best-Self Paper will be worth 100 points of your total course grade.  The purpose of this assignment is to identify your strengths and challenges in becoming a leader-manager and then to explain the things that you must continue to work on that will drive your continuous leadership and management development.  Please include examples of both strengths and challenges.

Before beginning the paper, you will need to interview five people and ask them what you are like when you are at your best and worst and how you have shown leadership and management qualities and behaviors in specific circumstances or events.  Make sure to ask for behavioral examples.  You can also use your Journal on Blackboard to reflect on these things as you learn them.   

Next, be sure to include HOW you will change or strengthen your behaviors or approaches—just saying you need to work on something doesn’t make it happen.  You need a strategy.  For example, let’s say you need to become better at dealing with conflict.  So, after you give an example of poorly dealing with conflict, you also need to indicate the words or phrases you will STOP using, along with which words or phrases you will START using, so that you are better able to articulate the issue in conflict, rather than make the conflict about the person who disagrees with you. 

All the interview notes should be summarized at the end of your report with a brief explanation of your relationship with the respondent.  Summarize the data by identifying common and significant themes as Headings, such as “Under Stressful Situations,” or “When in Charge of a Project,” or “When Faced with Conflict,” etc.).  Then, write out your complete “reflected best self” by completing statements, such as, “When I am at my best, …”  “To be a successful leader, I must work on …,” or “My biggest challenge I need to overcome when working in a team is….,” or any others you think appropriate.  

Remember: I want to hear your voice, not that of authors or management experts.  Do not include others’ definitions or theories…this isn’t a research paper! 

 When you are ready to submit your Reflected Best-Self Paper, upload it to your Blackboard Journal, along with the summary interview notes

Format to follow

· Heading black task as reading magazines or newspaper.

· Single space and space between each paragraph.

· Make it look good.

· Not lass than 4 pages and at most 7 pages.

· Grate interest how you developed as manger and leader.

· How you handle pressures.

· Discuss things and put head line.