Template for assessment 2: the Personal Leadership Portfolio
CRITICAL LEADERSHIP:
Theoretical and practical perspectives
Personal Leadership Portfolio
1,500 words excluding bibliography and appendices
Contents Page:
1. Assessment of MY personal leader/leadership skills:
1.1 Introduction to leader/leadership assessment: theory and practice
1.2 Table of tools used to assess my leader abilities and potential
1.3 Summary of my current strengths and development needs
2. Personal leader/leadership development plan
2.1 Introduction to leader and leadership development techniques: theory and practice
2.2 Summary development plan to meet my identified development needs
2.3 Rationale for choice of development methods/techniques
3. Bibliography
4. Appendices
Please note THREE appendices should be provided examples may include:
· Selected examples of self- assessment inventories completed
· Selected examples of assessment inventories completed by others
· Feedback from practical leadership sessions in class or
· Feedback from practical leadership experiences in other contexts
· Other evidence sources such as work-based assessments
Section 1: Assessment of MY personal leader/leadership skills
1.1. Introduction to leader/leadership assessment: theory and practice
Provide a paragraph or two that demonstrates your understanding of how leaders and leadership is assessed in general. Compare theory with practice using organisational examples and include some critique.
1.2. Table of tools used to assess my leader abilities and potential
List the sources of feedback used to assess your leader(ship) abilities and potential, for example: inventories and questionnaires suggested in the unit handbook; the practical leadership sessions you participated in during the taught sessions; work-based evidence such as appraisal; 360 degree feedback instruments and other leadership experiences. Identify what these tools assess referring to relevant theory as appropriate and whether they are self-assessment or based on 3rd party feedback.
THREE examples should be included as appendices, but your table should contain more. Indicate which tools you have included as appendices.
Illustrative table:
Tools used
(examples listed below)
Assesses
Leadership styles Questionnaire (Northouse, 2015 p 99)
Self-completion and completed by 3 direct reports
Assesses leadership styles as seen by self and others (Lewin, Lippitt & White, 1939; McGregor, 1960)
MLQ questionnaire (Bass & Avolio, 1992).
Completed by my project team
Four Is of transformational leadership (Bass 1985).
Practical leadership session feedback
Feedback from 4 class colleagues
Behaviours when leading a small team
Assessment centre feedback
Feedback form 3 trained assessors
One section of competencies focused on emergent leadership potential
Verbal comments from my football team: I am team captain and asked for feedback
Behaviours in a practical setting
ETC.
1.3. Summary of current strengths and development needs
Integrate the findings from the different sources in 1.2 and summarise the common themes and differences, identifying your personal strengths and development needs, referring to relevant theory as appropriate.
Section 2: Personal leader/leadership development Plan
2.1. Introduction to leader and leadership development techniques: theory and practice
Provide a paragraph that demonstrates your understanding of how leaders are developed in general. Compare theory and practice of techniques and methods used for leader development that includes organisational examples.
2.2. Summary of plans to meet my identified development needs
Based on the summary of development points from section 1.3, a plan of action should be included:
Identified development need.
What do you need to learn?
Planned development activity or method.
How do you intend to learn?
Intended measurement.
How will you know learning has taken place?
Timescale.
When will you do this?
2.3. Rationale for choice of development methods/techniques
Provide a justification for the METHODS you have chosen to develop your leader ability/potential as listed in 2.2.linked to appropriate theory. This is justification of your methods, not of the topics you have chosen to develop.
3. Bibliography
4. Appendices
Example
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