Create Your Personal Leadership Philosophy
Ø 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).
Ø 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.
Ø 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 High 5 Test as well as other sources, what are your strengths as a leader?

******my high 5 test results were****
My personal insights after taking the High 5 results were: self-believer, empathizer, optimist, believer, and timekeeper.

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

THIS IS A SEPARATE ONE PAGE PERSONAL LEADER STATEMENT. I ATTACHED A SAMPLE
Ø 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.