Assignment 1 - Overview

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Assignment 1 - Overview
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Describe the assessments you got on these skills?
Intrapersonal Skills
Interpersonal Skills
Self Monitoring
Attitudes toward authority
Self Control
Social Skills
Self Esteem

• Using charts/graphs describe the assessment you
  got from the four types of sources (can have more
  than one in each category)
• Friend/family
• professional associate,
• stranger you interacted with in this course for
  performance feedback exercise
• yourself

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Choose ONE skill that you will choose to improve
based on own/others assessment
Intrapersonal Skills
Interpersonal Skills
Self Monitoring
Attitudes toward authority
Self Control
Social Skills
Self Esteem
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Justify why you chose this skill

• What evidence (what sources) did you consider
  while deciding the skill you chose to improve on?
  
• Why do you trust that/those sources
• Justify why you trust the scores on the
  questionnaire assessing the skill you chose to
  improve on Use academic references

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Defining the Skill

• Provide one concrete example of how you
  demonstrate the lack of this skill or an
  unacceptable level of this skill in your daily
  life (at work, at home or at school, in leisure
  activities).
• Define this skill by listing its features.
  Illustrate one similarity and one difference
  between the skill you choose to improve and
  another related concept that it may be confused
  with using an example situation.
• Go beyond the similarities/differences identified
  in lecture notes, use readings/additional
  articles.

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Relate the skill to leadership performance

• Describe how the lack of this skill hinders your
  performance as a leader at work, home, or in
  school. Explain why this level of skill affects
  your current performance and/or how it might
  negatively impact your future career.
• Use theory to support your reasoning for the
  connection between this skill and leadership
  performance.
• Note this is different from a concrete example of
  how you display the lack of the skill or an
  unacceptable level of the skill.
• Find academic research articles to support your
  hypothesis that the skill for development will
  negatively affect your leadership performance, or
  why improvement in this area will be necessary
  for your career.