24 Apr ILS4302 Leadership Development Plan

ILS4302 Leadership Development Plan Instructions

Given that this course focuses on corrupt and toxic leadership, you will develop a plan to aid you in developing and growing your leadership abilities to be an effective leader who avoids such. In this plan you will need identify what you will do to be an effective, non-toxic leader. Ultimately the idea is to apply the material that you learn from the content in this course into a real action plan for your own growth as a leader. Your final leadership development plan will be assessed in terms of how well you have integrated your insights gained with course material discussed as well as how realistic, creative, and insightful your plan is. Your final plan will include three parts:

Part I

In Part I, you will identify the most important insights or learning points on leadership that you believe that you have gained from this course. Be sure to describe why you find them personally meaningful to you. Identify at least 3 leadership theories that resonated with you the most.

These leadership theories will be derived from your research.

Part II

In Part II, you will provide a factual description and a critical self-assessment and analysis of important leadership challenges, opportunities and dilemmas your career or life thus far. Describe the specific ways that you responded in those situations; and the overall success or failure of those outcomes. Be sure to identify the situations that you found to be the most helpful in letting you blossom as a leader, as well as those that have hindered your growth as a leader. In assessing your strengths you will use your identified experiences to determine key aspect of your personality that your successful leadership qualities. In assessing your weaknesses you will use the identified experiences to determine the aspects about you that you believe seemingly prevent you from fully realizing or reaching your leadership potential.

Part III

In Part III, you will outline, in specific details, a career progression road map for the next 5 years. You will need to justify how you will leverage the leadership skills you already possess and help you acquire the ones you don’t have but need, as identified in part 2.

You will also apply the leadership theories discussed in Part 1 to your own personal leadership development plan.

Your final Leadership Development Plan should be 10 – 15 pages in length, should include a title and reference page, and should utilize 10 – 12 sources. Your paper should adhere to APA standards for formatting and citation. Final drafts of your Development Plan are due at the end of Week 10. 

Project Checkpoints

To support your progress towards your final Leadership Development Plan, you will submit periodic project checkpoints:

1. A summary of three different theories of leadership you are considering drawing on for your Development Plan, due at the end of Week 4.

2. An annotated bibliography outlining the sources you are using for your project, due at the end of Week 6. 

3. A 1-page outline of your paper, due at the end of Week 8.