MGMT-6089 Personal Leadership Reflection Instructions

MGMT-6089 Personal Leadership Reflection Instructions
(20% of course grade)
Introduction:
Throughout this course you have studied numerous aspects of leadership. In week 7
(module 7) you performed a Personal Leadership Assessment in which you looked at
four key areas of your life as a leader: leadership history, leadership philosophy,
leadership strengths, and leadership training and feedback. In essence you took a
snapshot of your leadership abilities, passions, strengths, experience, and values. Now
you will perform a Personal Leadership Reflection.
Assignment:
This set of instructions will help your design of your Personal Leadership Reflection.
Your Personal Leadership Reflection will be due during week 14 (module 14) of the
course. It will be a maximum of 5 pages in length for the body of the paper or 5 minutes
in length for a video. Your personal reflection will include supporting materials from your
text and outside sources cited in-text in APA 7th edition format.
Components:
A Personal Leadership Reflection provides a valuable opportunity to reconsider those

items that you assessed earlier in the course (your personal leadership assessment):
your leadership journey, your values, beliefs, and ideals, your leadership and character
strengths, your education, training and gifts, your experiences and opportunities, and
any outside assessments provided by others or by survey instruments. All of these
varied components contributed to your general understanding of your Personal
Leadership Assessment. Now in your Personal Leadership Reflection you will
examine these varied components again with the purpose of creating a personal
leadership development plan. In essence, you will build your plan to develop as a leader
from the assessment and your studies throughout this course. Your reflection and plan
will address the following components.
A – Your Leadership Personality (10 marks - 3%)
Review your MBTI personality assessment and consider how that has impacted you
during The Fresh Connection (TFC) simulation, this course, and the OPM program.
Also, project how your personality will influence you as you transition to the workplace.
Answer the following questions:
1. How can your personality strengths be applied in the workplace?

2. How can your personality weaknesses be applied in the workplace?
3. How could your personality be an opportunity to others in an organization?
4. How could your personality be a threat to others in an organization?
B - Your Leadership Future (from your history) (10 marks - 3%)
In your earlier Personal Leadership Assessment, you looked at two areas of your
leadership experience, those who led you and those you led. You will again address
these two items in your Personal Leadership Reflection.
First, in your Personal Leadership Reflection you will consider those who had a
significant effect on your life (those who led you). In light of the topics you have studied
in this course you will analyze characteristics of these leaders that you would consider
worthy of building into your leadership development plan going forward. You may ask
yourself, “What was it about that person that had such a positive influence on my life?
How could I build that into my life and leadership? What would that look like?
Second, in your Personal Leadership Reflection you will look at your own life and
examine how you have influenced and led others (family, friends, employees, and
others). You have already assessed this in your week 7 (module 7) Personal
Leadership Assessment. In light of what you have found analyze and determine which
leadership behaviours, characteristics, and behaviours were successful. Ask yourself,
“What is it about that action, behaviour, or attitude that was so effective? How could I
build that into my future leadership career? What would that look like?
C - Your Leadership Philosophy: (10 marks - 3%)
In your Personal Leadership Assessment (module 7), you analyzed the principles,
beliefs, values, ideals, norms, and standards that you consider important and essential
to you as a leader. These items determine who you are as a leader and as a person.
They summarize the character you have as a leader. Evaluate these items and build
them into your Personal Leadership Reflection (plan). Ask yourself, “What values and
beliefs are essential to me as a leader?” “What standards and norms are non-negotiable
to me as a leader?” “How will they affect my leadership and what would that look like?”
D - Your Leadership Strengths: (10 marks - 3%)
Throughout this course you have studied various characteristics, behaviours, and
attitudes of leaders. You have looked at them in terms of “leaders-followers-situations”.
In week seven (module 7) you reviewed your past and present context and those areas
of strength that you feel you have exhibited as you worked with others. Now in your
Personal Leadership Reflection you will discuss and evaluate these strengths in
terms of your future leadership plan. Ask yourself, “How will I use these strengths and in
what situations will they be more effective?” “What would be my default strengths and
how can I build on these?”
E - Your Leadership Training and Feedback: (10 marks - 3%)
In your Personal Leadership Assessment, you discussed any feedback, informal and
formal, that you received as a leader. You looked at whether it was positive feedback
and if you received help with areas that needed improvement? You discussed the
training and experiences you had as a leader and how you progressed in those
experiences? Now in your Personal Leadership Reflection appraise and discuss this
training and feedback in terms of your future development as a leader. In short, build
your results into your leadership development plan. Ask yourself, “What did my training
and feedback reveal?” “Did I grow through those experiences?” “How can I use this
training and feedback in my leadership career going forward?”
Conclusion:
Your Personal Leadership Reflection is essential in determining where you are in

your growth as a leader. It is crucial for your understanding and evaluation of your
leadership strengths and areas of needed improvement. It is necessary for developing a
plan of growth and advancement as a leader. This reflection will help you determine
what your next steps may be as you work on your career. It will encourage your thinking
about your life as a leader. After all leaders are learners! Good leaders never stop
learning.

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(20% of course grade)

A Personal Leadership Reflection provides a valuable opportunity to reconsider those

A – Your Leadership Personality (10 marks - 3%)

1. How can your personality strengths be applied in the workplace?

B - Your Leadership Future (from your history) (10 marks - 3%)

C - Your Leadership Philosophy: (10 marks - 3%)

D - Your Leadership Strengths: (10 marks - 3%)

E - Your Leadership Training and Feedback: (10 marks - 3%)

Your Personal Leadership Reflection is essential in determining where you are in

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