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Leadership Philosophy- NOTE: This should not be left for the last week to begin, in fact see
bold below. I suggest starting that activity Week 1!

The benefits of developing a leadership philosophy – for an individual leader or an organization –
include:*

➢ It makes a promise that the individual leader is now bound to deliver upon. The leader
understands the minimum standard he/she is expected to hit with his/her leadership efforts.

➢ Individual leaders can reflect daily on their plans, decisions, and actions to gauge how well they
are living their leadership standards. A proactive part of this reflection would be engaging key
players in conversations about how the leader’s efforts are perceived by those players.

Create Your Personal Leadership Philosophy

➢ An effective leadership philosophy is different than your personal purpose, values, and valued
behaviors. While your leadership philosophy will be built upon the foundation your clear
personal purpose and values statement creates, it is specific to your leadership efforts (in the
workplace, in a community organization, wherever you are taking a leadership role).

➢ Let’s define an effective leadership philosophy as a values-aligned statement that helps you
inspire consistent high performance and positive relationships with all of your team members,
every day. It is NOT espousing leadership theories from recent business book (or even HBRs
readings). Rather, it is developing your own personal, authentic, philosophy that derives from
your core beliefs. I would hope that the materials you are exposed to in this course will aid in
your journey.

➢ Therefore, reflect on the readings, videos, audio, personal insight activities, assignments and
discussion we have been exposed to over the last six plus weeks (see your journals!).

➢ In addition, take the StrengthsFinder 2.O Assessment (see back of Strengths Based Leadership
for access code). Read and reflect on your strengths. Read and reflect on pages 1- 95 of that
text as well as the “additional resources” as they pertain to your strengths & leadership
growth. Feel free to include thoughts on these in your weekly journals (not required).

➢ In a paper (no more than 10 pages, 12pt font, double spaced) respond to the following
questions and any other you feel are important:
o As a leader, what are your highest values?
o What’s the contribution you want to make as a leader
o What makes you distinct as a leader?
o Drawing from StrengthsFinder 2.0 what are your strengths as a leader?
o Describe your plan for building trust, showing compassion, providing stability and

creating hope?
o What are five words or phrases people would use to describe your leadership style?
o How would people of different levels describe their relationship with you?
o How are you building your influencing capital?
o How do you want to treat people?
o How will you build your team?
o How will you ensure your team’s engagement?
o How do you approach (and delegate) tasks?

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o What are you doing to continually build your leadership capacity?
o What do you want your legacy to be?

➢ Some of you may find inspiration and guidance in the following
http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/milreview/leboeuf.htm.

➢ This paper should include a separate one page Personal Leadership Statement (see
http://www.academyleadership.com/LeadershipPhilosophy/ ) click on “View Samples” to
download some examples.

* The Culture Engine. used by permission of the author.

Leadership Philosophy Rubric
Criteria Not Acceptable

Acceptable

Proficient

Exemplary

Questions/Components
Addressed (35%)

Incomplete
does not
contain basic
section
contents of
leadership
philosophy

Includes at
least three
sections for
leadership
philosophy.

More than three
sections of
leadership
philosophy and
fully developed
comprehension
of the content
sections

Including all
sections, fully
developed with
appropriate
introductions
for each section

Leadership Statement
(30%)

Made weak
statement, or
did not
articulate
philosophy
effectively.

Included
components of
leadership
philosophy

Included
components of
leadership
philosophy and
elaborated on
three or more in
detail

Included all
components
and elaborated
on each with
clarity and
detail.

Formatting & Citations
(15%)

Formatting is
inappropriate
for document.
Citations are
non existent

Formatting is
appropriate
for document,
minimal
citations.

Formatting is
appropriate for
document. Uses
a variety of
layout and
design
techniques and
includes variety
of resources.

Formatting is
appropriate for
document.
Shows some
creative
expression in
the layout and
design and
variety of
resources and
citations.

Grammar & Mechanics
(20%)

Document over
all is written
poorly with too
grammar or
spelling errors.

Document
over all is
written clearly
in some detail
with no
grammar or
spelling
errors. Some
passive voice.

Document over
all is written
clearly in good
detail with no
grammar or
spelling errors.
Minimal passive
voice well
developed
paragraphs

Document over
all is written
clearly in some
great detail
with no
grammar or
spelling errors.
Used topic
sentences to
develop
paragraphs and
active voice.

Late Work Policy

Be sure to pay close attention to deadlines—there will be no make-up
assignments or quizzes, or late work accepted without a serious and
compelling reason and instructor approval.