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Epilogue Exercise: Your Personal Leadership Development Plan

The Personal Leadership Development Plan is the culmination of the exercises. It is your plan that you can use to guide your development. Used optimally, it can be a dynamic plan that you update on a regular basis to reflect your leadership experiences and changes in your thinking about your development. Take several hours to complete the plan, integrating the exercises you have done with appropriate revisions in your thinking

Questions :

1. Your True North:

• an essay to yourself, answering the question, "What is your True North?" How do you know when you are following it?

2. Intellectual development:

• In what ways will you endeavor to deepen your intellect?

• In what ways will you broaden your intellect?

• What are the areas in which you would like to read and study?

• What are the places you would like to live in or visit as part of your development?

3. Personal discipline and stress management:

• Describe your plan for healthy eating.

• Describe your personal exercise plan.

• What are your sleep requirements? To what extent do you deviate from them?

• Describe the practices you use to manage your stress, referring to the following areas: Meditating or sitting quietly Running or walking Exercising, working out, or competitive games Yoga or similar practice Prayer or reflection Talking to spouse, friend, or mentor Listening to music Watching TV or going to movies Other

4. Values, leadership principles, and ethical boundaries:

• In order of importance, what are the values that are most important to you? (Mark those values that you consider inviolate with an asterisk.)

• What are the principles on which you base your leadership?

• What are the ethical boundaries that will guide your professional life?

5. Your motivations and motivated capabilities:

• What are your extrinsic motivations?

• What are your intrinsic motivations?

• Make a list in rank order of your overall motivations.

• What are your greatest capabilities?

• What are your developmental needs?

• What are your motivated capabilities?

• What leadership situations optimize the use of your motivated capabilities?

6. Personal reflections:

• What do you do to be reflective or introspective?

• What are your spiritual or religious practices?

• If you don't believe in such practices, how do you address life's existential questions?

• What do you intend to do to strengthen your practices?