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Homework: My Personal Leadership Strengths and Skills
There are two parts to this homework- the personal reflection and the scholarly analysis.
Part I: Personal Reflection
While there are over 60 strengths (executing, influencing, relationship building, strategic thinking, cognitive, courage, humanity, and so on), there are fewer categories of skills: administrative skills, interpersonal skills, conceptual skills, technical skills. Review this week's material and draw from your personal and professional experience to refresh your memory of the strengths and skills that you have as a leader. The summary should describe the strength/skill, and how you have demonstrated that attribute. While we want to focus on your strengths, we also want you to create a plan for improving one select weakness. In your reflection, explain which weakness you want to address and how you plan to make improvements.
Part II: Scholarly Analysis
After you have completed Part I - Personal Reflection, conduct scholarly research and analysis.
Using EBSCOhost, explore the leadership literature regarding strengths and skills. Find five current (published within the past five years) articles that pertain to leadership strengths and skills. As a suggestion, try to find information regarding: positive psychology; the Gallup leadership strengths research; StrengthsFinder or StrengthsQuest; Values in Action (VIA) Institute and Inventory of Strengths; Centre of Applied Positive Psychology (CAPP) and the R2 Strengths Profiler Assessment.