Learning Outcome/s and Graduate Attributes:
Completing this assignment will help you better understand you strengths and development challenges as a leader. ECU’s Graduate Attributes relevant to this assignment include ability to communicate, critical appraisal skills and ability to generate ideas. However our main focus is on greater awareness of your leadership skills.
Instructions:
A self-audit is an opportunity to focus on your capability for leading, to both appreciate your many strengths and to identify areas for further development of mindsets, skills and behaviors.
You are asked to write a short paper based on five sources:
1) A statement of what project leadership means to you incorporating classroom learning, discussions with others, and review of leadership literature.
2) A short life history: outlining the experiences that have given you some insight into project leadership, and the cultural or family values that influence you.
3) A description of a time when you showed leadership in any aspect of life (school, sport, family, work), describing the attributes you believe you displayed.
4) An analysis of your project leadership skills based on what you have learned in the class so far.
5) A 360º evaluation, based on four short interviews on the subject of your leadership practice or skills. Interviewees could be work colleagues, superiors, subordinates, friends, family etc, preferably from more than one area of life. The interview questions can be general ones about your abilities, or could be based on, for example the quizzes in Dubrin et al. Aim to pose open-ended rather than closed questions.
Structure:
1 Title page and table of contents
3 Self-audit – analysis of each of the five aspects above
4 Summary - strengths and areas for development
5 References – only to materials not given out in class.
References:
You should cite some additional references on the theories or skills discussed, but the focus is more on your own learning from class materials and activities.