Case Studies Question

It is important for you as an IT professional to reflect on personal strengths and influential leadership skills. Being aware of these strengths and skills will help you manage conflicts, maximize your leadership potential, and apply appropriate leadership tactics to respond effectively in various workplace situations.

In this task, you will complete the CliftonStrengths self-assessment. Based on your results, you will engage in self-reflection and develop one SMART (i.e., specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and timely) goal as a framework to develop an influential leadership growth plan.

REQUIREMENTS

Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of the submission and no more than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. The similarity report that is provided when you submit your task can be used as a guide.

You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course.

After completing the CliftonStrengths self-assessment, reflect on the connection between your strengths and the development of influential leadership skills by doing the following:
 

A.  Describe what you learned about yourself based on the results of your self-assessment, including the following:

 how your strengths contribute to your thoughts, decisions, and behaviors

 how you can use these insights to add value in your current or future professional role

1.  Provide evidence of completion of the self-assessment.
 

Note: You may provide evidence of completion by attaching a PDF file of your test results or a screenshot demonstrating the self-assessment was completed.
 

B.  Create one SMART (i.e., specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and timely) goal for developing influential leadership skills, based on your reflection of your self-assessment results, by doing the following: