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Assignment 1- Personal Strategic Development Assessment (10%)

Submission Due: Week 1 – Day 7 at 23:59 PDT

This assignment is:
1. An assessment of your Personal and Individual Strategic Development.
2. Submitted in PressBooks as the First Chapter of the Discovering Strategic Leadership Book Project completed for this course.

All assignments will receive peer reviewed grading by other members of the class, with the instructor determining final grading after personal review of the material and receiving grading suggestions from the class. Assignment grading is awarded following peer review of the materials entered into PressBooks and a preliminary grading recommendation by class members, using the MA Lead and MAEL Grading Rubric.

Before you continue, please make sure that you have signed up for an account on Pressbooks. You can find information on the PressBooks Set-up page.

Using the materials outlined in chapter 1 of Hughes, et al. (2014) and Ungerer, et al. (2016, pp. xiii-105) you will create a new Chapter in the ‘Personal Strategic Development Assessment’ part of the PressBooks book and respond to the following prompts:

  1. Assess you as a strategic leader.
    1. What is your general response to the circumstances you presently face in your life?
    2. How do you handle the stressors you face?
      1. Personal
      2. Professional
  2. What are your wants and needs for changing or strengthening your responses?
    1. Personal
    2. Professional
  3. What are your strengths and weakness with regard to the desired changes in your life?
    1. Personal
    2. Professional
  4. What personal mission, vision and values do you practice?
    1. If you do not have a personal/professional mission, vision or values, take the time to develop one and explain why the mission, vision and values statements developed align with you and the future personal/professional development you desire?
      1. Personal
      2. Professional
      3. Collectively
  5. What key strategic drivers will help you create significant impact for achieving your potential?
    1. What areas will you abandon for your future development?
    2. What areas will you excel in?
      1. Personal
      2. Professional
  6. Explain the personal/professional culture you want to develop from the mission, vision, values and drivers envisioned and how they align with your present/future success.
    1. Personal
    2. Professional
  7. Conclude the assignment:
    1. Identify some ‘old economy’ thinking and practices you continue to use in your leadership and the outcome(s) you’ve experienced as a result. Include how you plan changing those habits to ‘new economy’ thinking and practice to create an effective personal/professional strategy with the outcome(s) you anticipate as you adopt ‘new economy’ habits in your leadership practice. (Ungerer, Ungerer & Herholdt, pp. xiii-105)
    2. Provide a personal assessment of needed personal development to become a better strategic leader based on your review of the chapter 1 material. (Hughes, Beatty and Dunwoodie, pp 21-51)
    3. Outline present strategic strengths you discovered and how you can align them to become a better strategic leader

Personal Strategic Development Assessment

Grading CriteriaWeightAssessment %Score
The Assignment provides a critical thinking and higher ordered analysis response to the assessment of YOU as a strategic leader.18%

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The Assignment provides a critical thinking and higher ordered analysis response to the personal mission, vision and values you practice.18%
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The Assignment provides a critical thinking and higher ordered analysis response to key strategic drivers helping YOU create significant impact for achieving your potential.18%
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The Assignment provides a critical thinking and higher ordered analysis response to explains the personal/professional culture YOU want to develop from the mission, vision, values and drivers envisioned and how they align with your present/future success18%
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Assignment concludes by indicating your thoughts on your present strategic leadership development and what is needed to assist with your strategic leadership growth.18%
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Assignment is clearly written and grammatically correct in presentation of ideas and APA 6 compliant documentation with an acceptable reference page.10%0 0.00
Total:0.0

NOTE: Substantive, Succinct and Cited.

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