1. Assignment 1 - Overview

2. Describe the assessments you got on these skills?
Intrapersonal Skills
Interpersonal Skills
Self Monitoring
Attitudes toward
authority
Self Control
Social Skills
Self Esteem
Using charts/graphs describe the assessment you got from the four types of sources (can have more than one in each category)
Friend/family
professional associate,
stranger you interacted with in this course for performance feedback exercise
yourself

3. Choose ONE skill that you will choose to improve based on own/other’s assessment
Intrapersonal Skills
Interpersonal Skills
Self Monitoring
Attitudes toward
authority
Self Control
Social Skills
Self Esteem

4. Justify why you chose this skill
What evidence (what sources) did you consider while deciding the skill you chose to improve on?
Why do you trust that/those sources
Justify why you trust the scores on the questionnaire assessing the skill you chose to improve on Use academic references

5. Defining the Skill
Provide one concrete example of how you demonstrate the lack of this skill or an unacceptable level of this skill in your daily life (at work, at home or at school, in leisure activities).
Define this skill by listing its features. Illustrate one similarity and one difference between the skill you choose to improve and another related concept that it may be confused with – using an example situation.
Go beyond the similarities/differences identified in lecture notes, use readings/additional articles.

6. Relate the skill to leadership performance
Describe how the lack of this skill hinders your performance as a leader at work, home, or in school. Explain why this level of skill affects your current performance and/or how it might negatively impact your future career.
Use theory to support your reasoning for the connection between this skill and leadership performance.
Note this is different from a concrete example of how you display the lack of the skill or an unacceptable level of the skill.
Find academic research articles to support your hypothesis that the skill for development will negatively affect your leadership performance, or why improvement in this area will be necessary for your career.