Core Values and Leadership Model Assignment



LEVEL THREE LEADERSHIP:

CORE VALUES AND LEADERSHIP MODEL ASSIGNMENT

The purpose of this assignment is for you to document your current thinking with regard to your core values about leadership. We will use this as the “baseline” or “starting point” for the course and attempt to help you extend and expand your perspective on leadership through the activities designed in the course. The assignment has two parts: listing your core values about what it means to be an effective leader, and developing a relational model of how those values and other elements might fit together graphically. You should be prepared to hand this assignment in on the first day of class.

Part One: Core Values

Consider everything that you’ve learned since you were born. Consider what you learned from your parents, your siblings, classmates, teachers, and previous work and other experiences. Write a list of the core values, beliefs, assumptions and expectations (hereafter referred to as VABEs) you’ve developed with regard to leadership.

Please do not use one-word principles; rather develop them into phrases or clauses. Consider the examples in Figures 1, 2, and 3. If one were to ask Stephen Covey (well known author and speaker), Jack Welch (CEO of General Electric Corporation from 1981-2000), and Thomas Jefferson, (third president of the United States and founder of the University of Virginia), they would probably respond with the principles shown in the Figures. You don’t need a specific number of principles, you might have somewhere between five and fifteen.

Create a two-column table and list your current understanding of your core leadership principles in the first column, one per row. Explain your rationale about why each principle is important to you in the right hand column. You can use the table provided below or one of your own construction if you wish to do this electronically.

Part Two: Creating a Graphical Relational Model

The second part of the assignment is to create a graphical, relational model of your thinking about leadership. Such a model consists of a series of “elements” depicted in geometric shapes and then connected in ways that demonstrate their “relation” to each other. Figure 4 shows such a relational model with regard to profits in a business. Figure 5 shows the model that the author uses to summarize his thinking about leadership and its outcomes.

Hand In

Be prepared to hand this assignment in. Please keep a copy for your own reference. This assignment will form the beginning point of your final paper as well and provide a foundation upon which you can build in writing that paper. We encourage you to use this writing assignment as the beginning structure of your final paper and to continue to refine and modify these two elements throughout the course.

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