Leadership Development - your task is to apply some of the  leadership

TUI Leadership Development Questions

your task is to apply some of the  leadership development tools that you read about in the background  materials to your own personal development. As a warning, this  assignment as well as several other assignments will involve taking a  lot of surveys. Of course surveys are not the only tools used in  leadership development, but they are one of the most popular tools and  many leadership coaching companies charge a lot of money for the surveys  that they’ve developed. Fortunately some of the surveys discussed in  the background readings are available for free. The purpose of taking  the quizzes are both for use in your leadership development, and also to  get a taste of what various leadership coaches out there are doing and  charging their clients for.

Make sure to thoroughly review the background readings before writing  your paper. The main tasks in this assignment are A) read the  background materials, B) take some self-assessment quizzes, and C) write  up a self-development plan based on what you’ve read about in this  module and your score on the quizzes. More specifically, write a four to  five page paper addressing the following questions:

1. Take the Values in Action (VIA) Inventory of Strengths that was  discussed in the background materials. This instrument is available for  free but you need to register: https://www.viacharacter.org/survey/account/register
   
   If  you can find a free variation of the Strengthsfinder survey online you  take this one instead, but the “official” Strengthsfinder survey from  Gallup is not free. Report and discuss your results. Were your results  surprising or what you expected to find? [One half to one page in  length]
2. Now take the Emotional Intelligence Self-Assessment in Chapter 3 of  Sterret (2006) as well as the Leadership Assessment in this chapter.  Discuss how you scored on each of the different elements of Emotional  Intelligence as well as your Leadership Assessment. Report and discuss  your results. Were your results surprising or what you expected to find?  [One half to one page in length]
3. Now we get to the main heart of the assignment. Based on what you  have learned in this module and the quizzes you took above, give some  specific examples of how you will improve your leadership skills. Your  examples should be based on both your results on the two quizzes, and  from the required readings. Make sure to cite at least two of the  required readings in your answers, and support your answers with  specific results from the quizzes that you took. [One and a half to two  pages]
4. Finally, discuss the main limitations of the quizzes you took and  the concepts you read about for this module. What information is missing  from the quizzes you took? What additional important aspects of  leadership development are not covered in this material or quizzes? What  else do you think you need to know about yourself in order to improve  your leadership skills?