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**In order to successfully complete this assignment you have to complete brief interviews with at

least 2 individuals. Be sure to set up interviews well in advance.

The purpose of this assignment is to help you explore leadership, your views of leadership

and how you plan to be a better leader in the future. You will have 3 pages single spaced

pages to complete the assignment. Each of the 6 sections must be completed and you must

use content from the provided articles or scholarly journal articles you locate on your own.

You are required to use a minimum of 3 sources.

I. Leadership definition

Drawing on your personal experiences and the academic literature, define what

leadership is (one paragraph). You must include at least one citation to a scholarly source in

this section.

II. Reflection on influential leaders in your life

Reflect on two specific leaders who have been highly influential in your life. Briefly

describe who they are, and what they did to be such influential leaders in your life. Support

your position with specific examples.

III. You as a leader

Describe traits, attributes and behaviors that you see in yourself that you feel will

help you excel and be a leader.

Describe traits attributes and behaviors that limit your effectiveness as a leader.

Describe one specific opportunity you have had to be a leader—formally or

informally or describe a situation where you plan to take a leadership role.

IV. How others view you as a leader

For this section you will need to report on how others view you as a leader. Interview

at least 2 individuals who would have knowledge of you in a leadership role. Please find 2

different people from different settings (a co-worker, an employer, a parent, a friend, a fellow

student). You should ask them the following questions:

What would you say are my key leadership skills?

How do I influence people around me, or how do I influence you?

Can you think of an example(s) where this leadership skill/influence showed itself?

From your perspective, what are things that I can do to improve as a leader?

For the write up of this section, feel free to use bullet points to report answers to the

questions

V. Your leadership philosophy and plans to act

Develop your own leadership philosophy and provide at least one concrete action

you will take to apply your leadership philosophy in your life. A leadership philosophy will

likely address one or several of the following questions:

How should leaders lead?

What behaviors, attitudes or attributes should leaders display?

What does leadership look like?

What values or most important when it comes to leadership?

*Draw from the literature and cite at least 2 sources to build your philosophy.

VI. Leadership and your service experience

Reflect on your 100 hours of service this semester in light of what you have already

written about leadership for this assignment. Answer at last 2 of the following questions:

Did I develop any leadership skills from this experience? (If so, explain which skills

and how you were able to develop them)

Did I see good or poor examples of leadership in my service experience? (Explain

what you saw as good leadership and what you saw as poor leadership.)

How did the leadership I saw in my service experience match with my philosophy of

leadership?

Would you do things differently or the same way as leaders you saw in your service

experience? (Explain what you would do differently or the same and why).