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Leadership Development Your Leadership Development Story Objective The objective of the Leadership Development Story is for you to capture, in your own style, your leadership development journey over the course

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Your Leadership Development Story
Objective
The objective of the Leadership Development Story is for you to capture, in your own style, your
leadership development journey over the course. It is based on what you have learned, experienced,
shared and explored in creativity when working in a team, participating in class or being exposed to
leadership challenges.
Framework for Developing and Presenting Your Story
The following is a suggested framework for developing your story. However the overall, driving focus
for you is to achieve the following objective: "to write your leadership development story of no more
than two pages that has a beginning (where you started from as a leader), a middle (how you grew as a
leader) and an ending (the difference that your leadership development can now make for you in your
life)."
The following are some framework considerations for your story;
1. The content for you story should be built from your blog postings referencing specific situations
of leadership development that may have triggered that learning (people, place, situation, etc);
2. Remember our definition of leadership: Leadership occurs when a person influences others to
cause real change to achieve a common vision.
3. As stated above you should follow a traditional story line as one might see in a movie:
a. The opening: capture what your understanding of creativity was before this course; in
what ways did you think you were or were not a leader; how did you view leadership in
terms of what you were exposed to; what did you think about being able to develop
your leadership ability.
b. The middle (the core of your story): based on your portfolio postings, capture in what
ways you feel that you grew as a leader and what was it that caused that development;
consider your creativity growth both within your team participation and with our work
in class; what leadership strengths did you become aware of; and when you used these
leadership strengths what impact or difference did you see that it made?
c. The ending (this movie has a happy ending): based on how you developed as a leader
over the course (based on b) how would you describe yourself as a leader today; what
are the new skills, attitudes, understandings and strengths that you bring as a leader
now; and with your new leadership ability what difference do you believe this could
make in your own and others lives in the future?
4. Your Report and Presentationa. Report: No more than two pages of actual text. It is a story, a movie so make it creative,
engaging and interesting.
b. Presentation: You will give a five to seven minute verbal (no technology, no notes)
presentation of your story. Don't try to memorize your two pages, rather, focus on the
three components identified in #3 above and simply speak to them as you would be
speaking to a friend. You should bring a metaphor that in some way represents your
story. This will build on our leadership communication in application.
5. Basis of Assessment
a. Your Creative Development Story will be based on three equal components:
completeness (content as per #1, 2 and 3 above); depth of insights from what you were
exposed to and how you integrated that into your personal leadership development;
and the creativity and quality of your report in terms of presenting an engaging,
compelling personal story..

please write in three pages.