IO003: Leadership

complete the Strengths Finder Assessment, in which you will develop a personal leadership philosophy that reflects your characteristics, core values, and strengths.

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IO003 Assessment Instructions

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Review the details of your assessment including the rubric. You will have the ability to submit the assessment once you submit your required pre-assessment and engage with your Faculty Subject Matter Expert (SME) in a substantive way about the competency.

Overview

For this Performance Task Assessment, you will complete the Strengths Finder Assessment, in which you will develop a personal leadership philosophy that reflects your characteristics, core values, and strengths.

Submission Length: 2- to 3-page leadership philosophy.

Your response to this Assessment should:

  • Reflect the criteria provided in the rubric.
  • Use the APA course paper template available here.
  • Adhere to the required assignment length.

Instructions

Access the following to complete this Assessment:

Before submitting your Assessment, carefully review the rubric. This is the same rubric the assessor will use to evaluate your submission, and it provides detailed criteria describing how to achieve or master the Competency. Many students find that understanding the requirements of the Assessment and the rubric criteria help them direct their focus and use their time most productively.

Achievement vs. Mastery of the Competency

  • Mastery of this Competency means that 80% or more of the rows have been assessed as Exceeds Expectations and no rows have been assessed as Does Not Meet Expectations.
  • Achievement of this Competency means that all rows are assessed at Meets Expectations or above (but lower than the 80% threshold required for Mastery).

Assessment of Individual Rubric Rows

In order to achieve Meets Expectations for a particular row of the rubric, you must have adequately completed all criteria in that row. This means that you have addressed all required elements to the required level of quantity and/or quality.

In order to achieve Exceeds Expectations for a particular row of the rubric, you must have adequately completed all criteria in the row, and in addition, your response must reflect a depth and breadth of knowledge and expertise. Examples of this include—but are not limited to—the following:

  • You provide additional, specific, and/or particularly relevant examples to illustrate points made.
  • You seamlessly incorporate your original thoughts and diverse, credible, and relevant academic sources, when applicable, to express your viewpoint or develop a persuasive argument.
  • You demonstrate a deeper understanding of the subject that draws from discipline-specific knowledge and theory and incorporates the viewpoints of a diverse set of business and management thought leaders.
  • You draw additional connections between multiple, complex topics to support your explanations.
  • You are able to apply your knowledge in unique, creative, and/or innovative ways.
  • You thoroughly break down concepts into simpler parts and use your understanding of business to make connections.
  • Your analysis is insightful and original.
  • You design processes, products, and/or solutions that are creative, high-quality, and innovative.
  • You consider diverse perspectives and relevant social, ethical, and business-related issues when proposing new ideas or formulating judgments.

All submissions must follow the conventions of scholarly writing. Properly formatted APA citations and references must be provided where appropriate. Submissions that do not meet these expectations will be returned without scoring.

This Assessment requires submission of two files, your Signature Theme Report displaying your results from the Strengths Finder Assessment, and a completed leadership philosophy. Save your files as IO003_Theme_Report_firstinitial_lastname (for example, IO003_Theme_Report_J_Smith), and IO003_Philosophy_firstinitial_lastname (for example, IO003_Philosophy_J_Smith).

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Complete this Assessment as follows.

To prepare:

  • Identify three scholarly research resources that evaluate the impact of leadership behaviors, styles, and characteristics for transformational leadership.
  • Use the scholarly resources on leadership you selected to support your philosophy statement.
  • Reflect on your results of the Strengths Finder Assessment and consider what these results convey in terms of your behaviors and characteristics in contributing to your leadership style/philosophy.
  • Download your Signature Theme Report to submit for this Assessment.

Leadership Philosophy

In 2–3 pages (total for all topics), develop a leadership philosophy that reflects your characteristics, core values, and strengths as they pertain to your leadership skills and profile. Your leadership philosophy should include the following:

  • A description of your core values.
  • A personal mission/vision statement.
  • Analysis of your Strengths Finder Assessment summarizing the results of your profile.
  • A description of two key leadership behaviors that you wish to strengthen.
  • A development plan that explains how you plan to improve upon the two key leadership behaviors you selected. Be specific and provide examples. * NOTE: The response must synthesize and integrate at least three outside resources and two competency-specific resources that fully support the responses provided. 
  • An explanation of how you plan to achieve your personal mission/vision. Be specific and provide examples. * NOTE: The response must synthesize and integrate at least three outside resources and two competency-specific resources that fully support the responses provided.
    • Note: Be sure to include your Signature Theme Report as a separate file with your Assessment submission.

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