self-assessment2

Assignment #2

“Making Yourself Indispensable” article is available in Pilot. Please look at “Course Articles”

file in Pilot.

Your final paper will be a summary of your “Making Yourself Indispensable Workbook”.

Your strength and complementary skill should be chosen from “Making Yourself

Indispensable” article, pages 6 and 7 (from the diagrams).

The article describes how to choose your strength and complementary skills. Please read

the article carefully. When you choose your skills first determine your STRENGTH. The

strength should be chosen from the big diagrams on pages 6 and 7 of the article (such as

“displays integrity and honesty”, “exhibits technical and professional expertise”). After

that, please choose a complementary skill for your strength. The complementary skill

should be chosen from the smaller items associated with your chosen strength. For instance,

if you choose “displays honesty and integrity” as your strength, your chosen complementary skill

should be chosen from the smaller items (such as “shows consideration and concern for others”,

or “is trustworthy”) associated with this strength. An example:

The article also describes how to conduct an “An Informal 360” evaluation. Although it is not

required, it may be beneficial for you to do this when trying to choose a strength and

complementary skills.

Your paper should address the following questions IN DETAIL:

1. Identify and define the leadership competency you selected as your STRENGTH (choose

just one strength). Explain in detail why you believe it is one of your strengths. Share

appropriate examples.

2. Share the COMPLEMENTARY SKILL you selected to DEVELOP over the course of a

few weeks (choose just one complementary skill). Please explain in detail why you chose

this complementary skill.

3. Explain in detail, specifically, what you did to develop that competency.

4. Share any impact your action had on you or others.

5. Share your thoughts you had as a result of focusing on that complementary skill over the

course of a few weeks, meaning, your comfort level, challenges you experienced, etc.

6. Share your thoughts on the value of identifying your strengths and developing

complementary skills in order to “BOOST” YOUR LEADERSHIP POTENTIAL.

 Be thorough in your responses and be sure to proofread your paper for typos and

grammatical errors.

 Please answer each question separately and WRITE THE QUESTION NUMBERS (such

as Question 1, 2, 3, …).

 You do not need to submit your workbook to me. Please just submit your final paper.

 Please be careful about developing your complementary skill (Question #2). Please do

not try to develop the leadership competency you selected as your strength.

 Please appropriately reference your sources within the text and at the end of the text

according to APA style.

 The dropbox for this project has Turnitin integration. Turnitin is a tool to prevent

plagiarism. Thus, please make sure you cite your resources correctly and paraphrase

whenever possible.

 Your paper should be double spaced, with 1 inch margins, and in Times New Roman, 12

font. Your paper should be no longer than four pages.

 The due date for this assignment is listed in the course syllabus.

 I recommend taking advantage of the Wright State University Writing Center for all

written assignments.