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LM004: Professional and Personal Leadership Planning

Develop a leadership focused professional and personal growth plan based on

reflection, self-assessment, and goal setting, which integrates concepts from

documented leadership best practices and frameworks.

Prerequisites:

Before beginning this Competency, you must complete the following Competency:

 CMBA LM001: Leadership Frameworks and Theories

Assessment Type: Work Product

Competency Description:

Effective leadership requires that individuals have a strong sense of self and that they be able to learn

from experience and integrate that experience with more formal knowledge in order to help them see new

possibilities for the future. One important activity that can help enhance an individual’s abilities to reflect

and learn from experience is to write “critically reflexive journals.”

Reflexive journals offer a means of exploring new possibilities for being and acting, and help individuals

integrate theory with practice in what is called “praxis”—or the “questioning [of] our reflex actions, creating

our own theories from experience, and using these as a basis for changing our own realities” (Cunliffe,

2004).

For this Work Product Assessment, you will have an opportunity to critically reflect on professional and

personal leadership experiences, and examine them in light of relevant documented leadership best

practices and theoretical frameworks so that you can then identify your leadership and/or followership

strengths and weaknesses, and so that you can develop goals and an action plan for improving your

leadership skills and behaviors.

This Assessment is comprised of three major parts:

 Part 1: Reflexive Self-Assessments

 Part 2: Individual Leadership Goal Setting

 Part 3: Individual Leadership Action Plan and Final Reflections

Assessment Submission Length: 3 files will be submitted:

 Part 1: Reflexive Self-Assessment prompts (3-5 pages)

 Part 2: Complete Leadership Goals Template (3-5 pages)

 Part 3: Leadership Goals and Action Plan Worksheet (9-10 pages)

Reference:

Cunliffe, A. L. (2004). On becoming a critically reflexive practitioner. Journal of Management

Education, 28(4), 407–426.

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Sub-Competencies:

o Self-assess professional behaviors as a leader and follower, using best practices and

leadership concepts as they relate to authentic leadership and personal mastery inparticular,

and to general leadership practices.

o Identify long-term leadership goals and aspirations based upon the analysis of rigorous selfassessment

and the consideration of core values and principles.

o Develop an effective professional and personal leadership-oriented action plan that

addresses how one can improve as a leader and follower.

Professional Skills

o Professional Skill 1: Written Communication

Demonstrate graduate-level writing skills.

o Professional Skill 5: Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

Use critical-thinking and problem-solving skills to analyze professional issues and inform best

practices.

Program Outcomes

The MBA Program Outcomes are listed below. This Competency aligns with the Outcomes in bold.

PO1: Evaluate the environment in which businesses operate with awareness of complexities,

interdependencies, risks, consequences, and diverse stakeholder perspectives

PO2: Make decisions within a business context that are effective, well-reasoned, ethical, and

socially responsible

PO3: Formulate statements of business problems or opportunities to facilitate insightful dialogue and

critical thinking

PO4: Generate solutions to complex business problems or opportunities through critical, creative, and

systems thinking and applying appropriate theories, concepts, tools, skills, practices

PO5: Employ business-appropriate communication skills that enable effective exchange or transfer of

information, promote mutual respect, encourage healthy discourse, and display an acute awareness of

the needs of the intended audience

PO6: Demonstrate the ability to work with others to meet goals in diverse and complex business

environments

PO7: Evaluate opportunities for business stakeholders, including oneself, to contribute to positive

social change locally and globally

Bibliography

The following suggested resources will help inform completion of the Competencies and Assessments.

Cunliffe, A. L. (2004). On becoming a critically reflexive practitioner. Journal of Management Education,

28(4), 407–426.

Dhiman, S. (2011). Personal mastery and authentic leadership. Organization Development Journal, 29(2),

69–84.

Walden University Competency Description – Brief 12/28/2016 3 of 3

George, B., Sims, P., McLean, A. N., & Mayer, D. (2007, February). Discovering your authentic

leadership. Harvard Business Review, 85(2), 129–138.

HSM Global (Producer). (2012). Marcus Buckingham: The leader’s most powerful possessions [Video

file]. Buenos Aires, Argentina: Author.

Kaplan, R. S. (2008, July/August). Reaching your potential. Harvard Business Review, 86(7/8), 45–49.

Retrieved from http://ift.tt/2hGydmK

Laureate Education. (n.d.). On setting leadership goals. Baltimore, MD: Author.

Laureate Education. (2012a). Leadership goals and action plan worksheet. Baltimore, MD: Author.

Laureate Education. (2012b). Leadership goals template. Baltimore, MD: Author.

Laureate Education (Producer). (2012c). Action plan [Interactive media file]. Baltimore, MD: Author.

Laureate Education. (2014). Dynamic leadership personal values survey. Baltimore, MD: Author.

Morisano, D., Hirsh, J. B., Peterson, J. B., & Shore, B. M. (2010). Setting, elaborating, and reflecting on

personal goals improves academic performance. Journal of Applied Psychology, 95(2), 255–264.

Tracy, B. (2001). Setting and achieving goals. Executive Excellence, 2, 15–16



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