Assignment Overview
For the individual assignment, you are tasked to do the following:
Collect data on your leadership skills
Observe yourself on these skills via role-play and simulations
Reflect on how you use these skills in real-life situations you have experienced
Analyze your skills and your behaviors in simulated and real-life situations using theories
and concepts introduced in the course
Develop a meaningful plan for improvement based on your reflection and analysis
The purpose of this assignment is to enable you to gain self-awareness by observing yourself
in real and simulated situations, apply scientifically valid theories to understand why you
behave the way you do, and develop a feasible plan on how to improve yourself.
Assignment Details
Part I Collect, Analyze & Interpret Data (10 marks)
1. Describe the results from the assessments of your skills. The skills are self-esteem, self-
monitoring, self-control, social skills, attitude toward authority. You should have
assessed yourself and an assessment by at least one other person who is your
friend/family member, or a colleague (from school, work, volunteering), or a new
student you met in this course.
2. Identify one skill you want to improve on and explain why. Use the following questions
to guide your analysis:
What type of assessments are you relying on?
What does he/she think of you? What do you think about yourself? Discuss mean
scores on the skills surveys. (see data provided to you at the individual and at
the class level)
How does he/she know you? How valid and reliable is his/her assessment?
What are the similarities/differences between your assessment and the
assessment of that this person have of you?
How do you compare to the class on your level of the skill?
How do your informants ratings of you compare to the average ratings that
informants have of others in the class?
3. The results of your skills surveys can be included as a figure/table in the Appendix.
Part II Reflect on a Real-Life Situation (5 marks)
Briefly describe the poignant points about a real-life situation youve experienced that can
demonstrate why it is important for you to work on the skill you identified in Part I. Consider
the following questions to guide your thought process:
Why would a mastery of the skill in focus have been useful/appropriate/important in
the situation?
How would the situation have been different if you had already mastered that skill at
the time of the situation?
Part III Analyze Using Theory (20 marks)
Apply one theory or concept from those studied in the course analyze/explain what youve
learned from Part I and Part II. You may conduct additional research to find a theory specific
to the skill you chose. Examples of theories we studied in this course include theories about
leadership (including the Hogan & Warrenfeltz article), personality, perception, attribution,
motivation, attitudes, organizational culture, etc.
Use the following questions to guide your analysis:
How does the theory/concept explain your behaviors and skills, and how you reacted
in the simulation/real-life situation?
What insights are you gaining from using the theory/concept?
What did you notice that you didnt notice before?
Part IV Create a Plan for the Future (20 marks)
Research and develop an actionable plan to help you improve this skill in the future based
on what youve learned in applying one theory/concept in Part III. Clearly articulate how this
plan (i.e. executing these steps) will help you achieve your goals. Consider what constitutes
as improvement and how you will measure it. For the measure, you should use a previously
researched and validated measure of the skill; you will need to cite the academic research.
This measure can be in the form of a questionnaire that you can use to measure and track
your personal development in the skill that you chose.
Consider the following questions to help guide your thought process:
Based on the theory/concept you used in in Part III, what should you do differently?
How will these actions align to your goals?
How feasible are these actions?
Are these actions reasonable?
Formatting Expectations
3-7pages; penalties may apply for being over/under page requirements. Appendix,
cover pages, references not included.
12 pt Times New Roman font Number your pages (bottom Cite sources using APA