• Your final assignment bring together all the aspects of leadership that you have examined and discussed over the last nine units. In this assignment, you will analyze and evaluate your own leadership qualities to create a portrait of the public service professional and leader you aspire to be.
Since this assignment requires you to develop a self-portrait, you may write this paper in ?rst-person voice. Note: It is very important for your development as a scholar-practitioner that you recognize that writing in the ?rst person is not usually acceptable in academic papers. However, given the nature of this assignment, it has been deemed appropriate to make an exception here. Please remember that the third-person voice is the universal norm in academic writing. You should always exercise careful consideration before departing from this norm. If you have any questions about this, please contact your courseroom instructor, or post a question in the Ask Your Teaching Assistant area of the PSL & NHS Learner Success Lab.
To complete this assignment, you will need to:
• Identify and analyze at least one leadership theory or style that you believe best aligns with your own thoughts of what leadership means. Use that theory or style to analyze your strengths and weaknesses.
• Evaluate the leadership characteristics you already possess. Then, identify at least two additional leadership characteristics you would like to develop. Explain how these characteristics will allow you to guide, educate, inform, and influence others to manage change in the field of public service leadership.
• Evaluate how your leadership attributes will serve to help you build and maintain collaborative relationships across disciplines within your community.
• Identify the main tenets of ethical leadership in public service, and use them to evaluate yourself. Where do you have room to grow?
• Evaluate the tenets of diversity and inclusion in the field of public service and the need to incorporate those tenets into effective public service leadership. Give an example of how you may implement at least one of them.
• Analyze how your personal and academic experiences will contribute to and guide your development as an effective leader. Hint: Review and apply the Capella Scholar-Practitioner Model (link given in the resources).
Requirements
Your paper must meet the following requirements:
• Written communication: You must Write coherently to support central ideas, in appropriate format, and with correct grammar, usage, and mechanics.
• Length of paper should be 6-8 typed, double-spaced pages, excluding the title page and reference page.
• References: At least five different resources (peer-reviewed journals or other scholarly resource, assigned unit readings, and the like) to support your statements.
• APA format: Follow current APA guidelines for style and formatting, as well as for citing your resources in the body of your paper and on the Reference page.
• Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.