Personal Leadership PlanWeek 1

Welcome to your Personal Leadership Plan!

This template will help you create your own plan for developing your inclusive
leadership skills. Using weekly highlights, guided questions, and discussion insights
from the community, you will develop and refine your plan for becoming an inclusive
leader.
Consider this a work in progress. Answer the questions as fully as you can, but
you will have additional opportunities to review and refine each week. This
template is designed to grow with you during and after the course.

Save this template now to your own files!

Do this now to ensure you do not lose any work.
Remember, each week you will add another portion of the template to your plan.
Instructions:
1. Go to File and Save As. Save this document to your own files.
2. Read the introduction and fill out Table 1, Table 2, and Further Reflections.
3. Then go to back where you left off in the course and share a portion of your work
with the community, and give and receive feedback through the peer review.
Lets get started!

Week 1: 21st Century Leadership

Quote for the Week

More people are understanding that really diverse teams generally don't perform
middle of the road. They're either off the charts great, or they're absolutely awful. It
comes down to the culture you build within the team, bringing ideas from all sources, as
to whether or not that team comes together and whether the magic happens.
James S. Turley, Retired Chairman and CEO of EY

Take 5 Summary of Week 1

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Anyone can be an inclusive leader, and everyone benefits from inclusion.

Inclusive leaders value the diverse talents and experiences of others.
Inclusive leaders strive to never stereotype or alienate others.
Inclusive leadership leads to people feeling more included and performing better.
Inclusive leaders are aware of their own biases and assumptions, take action, and
execute the EACH attributesEmpowerment, Accountability, Courage, and Humility.

Starting Your Personal Leadership Plan

Answer questions posed here when you first download the template, or at a later date.
The template is designed to grow with you during and after the course. You may not be
ready or able to fill in every answer immediately.
Which leaders do you admire?
Think broadlyfrom present times or the past, from your personal life or
workplace.
Think about a person (famous or not), a story, or an action that stayed with you.
Think about EACHEmpowerment, Accountability, Courage, Humilityas
you reflect on leaders you admire.

Complete Table 1 by building off your post on the discussion board. Add rows as
necessary:
Which leaders do you admire? Which leaders inspire you?
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 What leadership attributes or behaviors do you admire, and why?

Table 1 - Leaders and Leadership Attributes

Leader(s)

Leadership Attributes or Behaviors

Example: My ethics course professor

Empowerment, Accountability
She encouraged students to freely share ideas (empowerment),
and respect fellow students (accountability). She constantly
modeled that quality for students and was able to guide us through
discussions of emotional and challenging subjects. She helped us
reach our own conclusions (empowerment) and challenge
respectfully in the classroom. We were responsible for how we
behaved in the classroom (accountability).

What is your leadership vision?

What kind of a leader do you want to be, for yourself and those around you?
Think about the leadership attributes from Table 1 and ways in which you could do
something different to better model these attributes, whether at work, in school, or in
your personal life.
Give yourself timeframes, such as something you want to do this week or this month.
Think about what your leadership vision looks like today, and what it should look like in
the future (long-term).

Table 2: Leadership Vision

Leadership

Possible Actions

Your Leadership Vision

Attributes
Example from Table 1:
Empowerment and
Accountability*

How Did it
Go?

Action for the WeekI will

encourage my team to share
their thoughts and new ideas

NowTo empower team

members and encourage them
to share their new ideas freely.

Did anything
interesting or
surprising

(*This is just one

example of leadership
attributes. Feel free to
highlight attributes that
are relevant to your
context and situation).

freely in meetings.
Action for the Month, YearI will
continue to empower my team
and create a culture of respect
and listening.

Long-termI want people

everyoneto associate me with
these attributes - empowerment
and accountability. Theyll know
that when I task my team with
something, I want them to share
their thoughts and new ideas
freely and know that I am
holding them accountable for not
only getting the work done, but
for how the work is done.

happen when
you executed
your Action for
the Week?

Further Reflections
What other leadership attributes and behaviors do you want to strengthen as you think
about your current context?

[Next week, paste Week 2 Personal Leadership Plan template here.]

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