Reference no: EM131808622

Leadership: A Transferrable Skill

Current Leadership Strengths and Development Needs

Two of the questions employers always ask you (in one way or another) are about your strengths and weaknesses. The easiest way to answer this question with sincerity is to have first (long before the questions are asked) reflected upon what your real strengths and real development t needs (weaknesses) are.

Overview of Individual Project Part B - Leadership Strengths and Development Needs

The purpose of Part B is to assist you in recognizing your current leadership strengths and development needs. To this end, Part Bconsists oftwo self-assessment inventories and the submission of a short paper summarizing your findings.

Explanation of Requirements and Evaluation Criteria

1. The Self-Management Skills/Traits Inventory. Complete the inventory, identify your 5 strongest skills/traits, the 3 skills/traits you need to develop, and submit completed inventory to the Part A drop box.

2.The Key Leadership Competencies Inventory. Complete the inventory, identify your 5 strongest skills/traits, the 3 skills/traits you need to develop, and submit completed inventoryto the Part B drop box.

3. Write and submit a 1-2 page, double-line spaced reflective summary in 12 pt. Times New Roman font double line spaced, with the bolded title of Reflective Summary of MyLeadership Strengths and Development Needs, followed by you name on the next line.

Your summary should providean overall picture/explanation of your strongest competencies/skills/traits (4 or 5 not 10), the areas/competencies you feel require further development (2 or 3not 6), and your plan (steps and actions) for developing your identified/stated leadership ‘weaknesses'.

Self-management skills/traits are the things that make you unique. People often fail to identify these attributes as skills, or to give themselves credit for using them, yet they impact professional identity, the work that is done and the way that it is done.

Self-management skills/traits are often considered as professional, leadership, and personal traits; and some are highly desirable to business organizations.

To help you sharpen your focus on who you are, and to identify your current strengths, work through this checklist of personal skills/trait characteristics.

First, read each word and under the left-side Mastered column, check (X) all of the skills/traits that other people (family, friends, co-workers) would say describe you as you are now (NOTE: if others have recognized the associated behaviors being demonstrated by you then it suggests this is a strong natural trait or one that you have already mastered).

Second, to prepare yourself for your next move forward on your profession/future career path, look at the list a second time, and specifically at the skills/traits you did not check, and under the right side Need column check (X) the 5 or 6 self-management skills/traits you feel you currently don't have but see as being an important benefit in the future.

Attachment:- CompetencyInventory.rar