Developing Your Leadership Philosophy: Self-Awareness and Analysis

Online Instruments To Discover Your Leadership Strengths

Purpose: The first step for envisioning leadership is to identify who youare. Self-awareness is fundamental to discovering “where you want to goâ€Â.This process encompasses developing a better understanding of your values,beliefs, interests, personality characteristics and traits, and strengths. This assignment will give you the opportunity to take several online instruments in order to discover more about your leadership strengths and skills. It will also help you to analyze and synthesize this information and develop your personal profile or leadership philosophy.1.Complete the VIA character strengths assessment, You will be required to register take the free survey. Take a photo of your results.Reflect on each of your top THREE character strengths: Do you feel that they accurately describe what you already knowabout yourself? Did you learn anything new?How will you use your top three character strengths to guide youin demonstrating your leadership skills with children, families and colleagues? 2.Complete the Myers Briggs to identify your MBTI type. MBTI Humanmetrics website: Go to the Humanmetrics website  and take the C. Jung and Isabel Meyers-Briggs free Personality Typology Test. When you submit your results , it will take you to the “the description of your typeâ€Â in the sections: Self-development and Careers. Take a photo of your results. Describe how these traits “show up for youâ€Â Do you agree or disagree with the findings, some but not all? In what ways do the results currently manifest themselves in your life or not? How will you use this results guide you in demonstrating your leadership skills with children, families and colleagues? 3.Review the chapter: “Who Me a leader?â€Â Describe how you see yourself emerging as a leader.Share an example of how culture, life experiences or your position in your family influences how you develop and use leadership skills and abilities in your work with children, families or colleagues. The chapter has outlined some teaching skills and competencies. Identify 2 (two) of these teaching skills or competencies that you have, and explain how these have made you a good leader in your classroom.4.Conclusion: Based on your discussion in your essay, consider what leadership qualities you want to develop or improve. What steps will you take to achieve this? Bring closure to your essay. Assignment Checklist:Once you have taken the online instruments, and review the chapters,compile the information to write a personal reflection paper about how yousee yourself, how you want to “show upâ€Â for others and how you seeyourself emerging as a leader. ï‚·An introduction that clearly state the purpose and goal of your paper.ï‚·Within the body of your paper, you have analyzed the online tools andthe chapters and reflected on your strengths, attributes and leadershipskills or emerging leadership skills. You have also discussed how youwill use the information to demonstrate leadership skills, in your rolesas educators. ï‚·A conclusion that summarizes key points and bring closure to the paper.ï‚·You have used information from the VIA character strengths assessment, Myers Briggs (MBTI), and the chapters to support your paper. ï‚·Proper citations and references in APA format for all paraphrased and quoted information (including the online tools). ï‚·Your paper should be from 5 to 6 pages (including title & reference pages). Assessments must adhere to the APA formatting guidelinesï‚·This assignment is worth 20% of your final markï‚·Papers that are missing a reference list or in-text citations will not be graded and all papers will be checked for academic dish