LED514 Module 1 SLP Latest 2019 january Question # 00596845 Course Code : LED514 Subject: Education Due on: 01/12/2019 Posted On: 01/12/2019 08:21 AM Tutorials: 0 Rating: 4.6/5

LED514 Mentoring and Developing
Employees

Module 1 – SLP

THE PRINCIPLES OF COACHING

Assessing Yourself and Your Environment

One common focus of coaching in organizational settings is
to work with an employee to construct a personal development plan. In this SLP,
you will be developing your own Leadership Growth Plan (LGP). The purpose is to have you learn the steps to
developing such a plan so you can help others you are coaching to do the same,
but also to come out of the class with a personal plan for your own development
as a leader.

Why create a Leadership Growth Plan?

It is one thing to want to be a good leader. It is another thing to achieve it. Research shows that people who have a vision
for where they want to go and then write it down and develop a plan to achieve
it, are more successful than people who do not.
An LGP is designed to help you assess your current skills and capacities
as a leader, set goals, and make a plan for enhancing your effectiveness by
acquiring new skills.

Success, Strategy, Business, Solution

For an example of what a personal leadership growth plan
might look like, see the following:

Create a Personal Leadership Growth Plan (n.d.) Retrieved
from http://www.myafchome.org/assets/Convention/2012_Convention/personal%20leadership%20growth%20plan-ew.pdf

Guide to the Completion of a Personal Development Plan.
(n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.collegiovolta.org/images/example_pdp_2016.pdf

Assignment Instructions

In this module, we will begin with the first phase of
creating your plan. You will engage in
some assessment and reflection addressed toward giving you a picture of “Who am
I”? Then you will write up what you have learned about yourself in a two- to
three-page paper. The paper should be an integrated essay assessing your
current attributes and capabilities as a leader. Do not just line up the four topics below and
report on them as in a short-answer test.
Use them to “tell the story” of who you are.

Keys to the Assignment

To assess yourself as a leader, consider the following and
incorporate your answers into your paper.

What are your values?

Make a list of everything that is important to you in
life. Do not censor or edit anything,
just get it all on paper. You may find that you think of things you would not
have expected.

Read through the list several times, choose the five most
important values, and list them in order of importance.

Define each value in terms of why it is important to you.

What is your leadership style?

You have undoubtedly assessed your leadership style in one
or more classes or at work. If you can
recall your dominant style, name and describe it. The most common styles are
authoritarian, consulting, participative, and delegating, but there are others.

Using the authoritative style, you tend to make all
important decisions, including how jobs are performed.

Using the consulting style, you ask for employee input, but
then make the decision yourself.

Using the participative style, you involve employees as
partners in the decision.

Using the delegating style, you empower employees to make
the decisions on their own as appropriate.

If you want to take a new assessment questionnaire, there
are many on the Internet. Just cite the
instrument you are using.

What motivates you?

Not everyone is motivated by the same things. What does it for you? Compensation, titles, perks, social status,
money, helping others, doing a good job, winning?

Repeat the process you used in assessing your values.

How are your skills in the following competencies?

Developing subordinates:
fostering employee engagement and commitment to the job and the
organization, developing job-related skills and abilities, building
decision-making capabilities, encouraging personal accountability for job
responsibilities.

Modeling desirable behaviors: As a leader you are the “voice” of the
organization. You exemplify its ethics,
values, and expectations of employees.
You do not ask people to do things you would not do yourself.

Challenging the status quo:
Are you willing to try something different, think outside the box, take
risks? Leaders do not simply accept
things the way they have always been, but ask, “How can we do it
better?”

Accountability:
Leaders take responsibility for getting the job done. Leaders try new ideas, create action plans,
and evaluate results.

SLP Assignment Expectations

Include a cover page and reference page in addition to the
2-3 pages of analysis described above.

Your paper should include introduction and conclusion
paragraphs.

Use headings to indicate major sections of the report.

Cite and reference any outside sources.

Use APA formatting.

Proofread and edit your papers carefully. The expectation is
zero errors.