Leadership development tools

Case Assignment

For this first Case Assignment, your task is to apply some of the leadership development tools that you read about in the background materials to
your own personal development. As a warning, this assignment as well as several other assignments will involve taking a lot of surveys. Of
course surveys are not the only tools used in leadership development, but they are one of the most popular tools and many leadership coaching
companies charge a lot of money for the surveys that they’ve developed. Fortunately some of the surveys discussed in the background readings
are available for free. The purpose of taking the quizzes are both for use in your leadership development, and also to get a taste of what various
leadership coaches out there are doing and charging their clients for.

Make sure to thoroughly review the background readings before writing your paper. The main tasks in this assignment are A) read the
background materials, B) take some self-assessment quizzes, and C) write up a self-development plan based on what you’ve read about in this
module and your score on the quizzes. More specifically, write a four to five page paper addressing the following questions:

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. Take the Values in Action (VIA) Inventory of Strengths that was discussed in the background materials. This instrument is available for free but

you need to register: hitps:/www.viacharacter.org/survey/account/register

If you can find a free variation of the Strengthsfinder survey online you take this one instead, but the “official” Strengthsfinder survey from
Gallup is not free. Report and discuss your results. Were your results surprising or what you expected to find? [One half to one page in length]

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Now take the Emotional Intelligence Self-Assessment in Chapter 3 of Sterret (2006) as well as the Leadership Assessment in this chapter.
Discuss how you scored on each of the different elements of Emotional Intelligence as well as your Leadership Assessment. Report and
discuss your results. Were your results surprising or what you expected to find? [One half to one page in length]

Now we get to the main heart of the assignment. Based on what you have learned in this module and the quizzes you took above, give some
specific examples of how you will improve your leadership skills. Your examples should be based on both your results on the two quizzes, and
from the required readings. Make sure to cite at least two of the required readings in your answers, and support your answers with specific
results from the quizzes that you took. [One and a half to two pages]

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Finally, discuss the main limitations of the quizzes you took and the concepts you read about for this module. What information is missing from
the quizzes you took? What additional important aspects of leadership development are not covered in this material or quizzes? What else do
you think you need to know about yourself in order to improve your leadership skills? [One page]

Assignment Expectations

Case Assignments are to be prepared in Microsoft Word 12-pt font, be at least 4 pages in length (excluding title and references pages) and
include 3 scholarly sources from the required or optional readings list.

The paper should include the following:

Title Page formatted per APA.
An Introduction, Body of Work, and Conclusion.

Report content should include a brief introduction to the assignment, background information about the organization being studied, and your
discussion of organizational structure in terms of the concepts or theories being applied in the assignment. Use subtitles, bullets, and tables to
improve presentation values.

References page (double-spaced, 12-pt. type, Times New Roman font) should be formatted par APA Style- See APAstyle.org.

Attention is to be given to citing sources of information in-text as well as in the reference list at the end of reports. Citation and reference style
instructions are available at hitos:/ow/.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/10/

Submit your report in the Case dropbox for this module on or before the date due, as indicated in the TLC Homepage.

The paper should be written in third person; this means words like “I,” “we,” and “you” are not appropriate.

Submit the presentation through the appropriate Dropbox by the due date. Your submission will bs graded with the assignments grading
rubric.

Your submission for this Signature Assignment will be assessed on the criteria found in the grading rubric for this assignment to assess
Quantitative Reasoning at the Reinforced Level.