Personal Leadership Plan Template 2-2-15

Personal Leadership Plan—Section 1

Welcome to your Personal Leadership Plan!

This template will help you create your own plan for developing your inclusive leadership skills. Using course highlights, guided questions, and discussion insights from the community, you will develop and refine your plan for becoming an inclusive leader.

Consider this a “work in progress.” Answer the questions as fully as you can, but you will have additional opportunities to review and refine each section. This template is designed to grow with you during and after the course.

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Remember, each section you will add another portion of the template to your plan.

Instructions:

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Read the introduction and fill out Table 1, Table 2, and Further Reflections.

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Section 1: 21st Century Leadership

Quote for the Section

More people are understanding that really diverse teams generally don't perform
middle of the road. They're either off the charts great, or they're absolutely awful. It comes down to the culture you build within the team, bringing ideas from all sources, as to whether or not that team comes together and whether the magic happens.
–James S. Turley, Retired Chairman and CEO of EY

Take 5 Summary of Section 1

Anyone can be an inclusive leader, and everyone benefits from inclusion.
Inclusive leaders value the diverse talents and experiences of others.
Inclusive leaders strive to never stereotype or alienate others.
Inclusive leadership leads to people feeling more included and performing better.
Inclusive leaders are aware of their own biases and assumptions, take action, and execute the EACH attributes—Empowerment, Accountability, Courage, and Humility.

Starting Your Personal Leadership Plan

Answer questions posed here when you first download the template, or at a later date. The template is designed to grow with you during and after the course. You may not be ready or able to fill in every answer immediately.

1. Which leaders do you admire? Complete Table 1 by building off your post on the discussion board. Add rows as necessary.

Which leaders inspire you? Think broadly—from present times or the past, from your personal life or workplace.
What leadership attributes or behaviors do you admire, and why?
What EACH—Empowerment, Accountability, Courage, Humility—attributes are exhibited by the leaders you admire?

Table 1 - Leaders and Leadership Attributes

Leader(s) / Leadership Attributes or Behaviors
Example: My ethics course professor / Empowerment, Accountability
She encouraged students to freely share ideas (empowerment), and respect fellow students (accountability). She constantly modeled that quality for students and was able to guide us through discussions of emotional and challenging subjects. She helped us reach our own conclusions (empowerment) and challenge respectfully in the classroom. We were responsible for how we behaved in the classroom (accountability).

2. What is your leadership vision? Complete Table 2.

●What kind of a leader do you want to be, for yourself and those around you?

●Think about the leadership attributes from Table 1 and ways in which you could do something different to better model these attributes, whether at work, in school, or in your personal life.

●Give yourself timeframes, such as something you want to do this week or this month.

●Think about what your leadership vision looks like today, and what it should look like in the future (long-term).

Table 2: Leadership Vision

Leadership Attributes / Possible Actions / Your Leadership Vision / How Did it Go?
Example from Table 1:
Empowerment and Accountability*
(*This is just one example of leadership attributes. Feel free to highlight attributes that are relevant to your context and situation). / Action for the Week—I will encourage my team to share their thoughts and new ideas freely in meetings.
Action for the Month, Year—I will continue to empower my team and create a culture of respect and listening. / Now—To empower team members and encourage them to share their new ideas freely.
Long-term—I want people—everyone—to associate me with these attributes - empowerment and accountability. They’ll know that when I task my team with something, Iwant them to share their thoughts and new ideas freely and know that I am holding them accountable for not only getting the work done, but for how the work is done. / Did anything interesting or surprising happen when you executed your Action for the Week?

Further Reflections

What other leadership attributes and behaviors do you want to strengthen as you think about your current context?

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Reviewed/updated: October 4, 2016