If you cannot see where you are going, ask someone who has been there before. J Loren Norris
Over the last 8 weeks, you have (hopefully) learned a lot about yourself and about how grit and wellness relate to growth and success. Last week, you found a mentor to help you as you complete this course and as you move forward with your personal and professional life journey.
This week, you will investigate your leadership style and learn more about managing your career. In today’s society, ethical, respectful leadership can be hard to find. Yet, as you will learn when you take the Kirkpatrick Signature Series (the capstone of general education at Bellevue University), if we hope to live and work in a healthy, civil society, we need more people who are willing and able to lead in their families, at work, and in society. After studying the material for the week, you will schedule a meeting with your mentor to talk about leadership and career management and share what you learn with your colleagues in class.
Learning Outcomes: At the end of this week, you should be able to
Discuss your leadership style.
Explain the importance of individual leadership in the workplace and society
Articulate areas of career growth and career management.
Too often, when we think about leadership, we think of leadership in terms of assigned roles or power. Leadership comes in all kinds of forms, and part of success is seeing where and how you lead now. In the videos for the week, you will learn about everyday leadership. These talks will help you to see and appreciate how you lead now.
Video Link: https://www.ted.com/talks/drew_dudley_everyday_leadership?subtitle=en
TEDxToronto, Drew Dudley, 2010
Video Link 2: https://www.ted.com/talks/derek_sivers_how_to_start_a_movement?subtitle=en
Derek Sivers, 2010
The next videos share information on career development. The videos note that there are a variety of ways to pursue a career and manage it.
Video Link 3:https://www.ted.com/talks/misan_harriman_the_power_of_an_image_and_the_mind_behind_it?subtitle=en TED2023, Misan Harriman, 2023
TED2023, Misan Harriman, 2023
Video Link 4: https://www.ted.com/talks/sarah_ellis_and_helen_tupper_the_best_career_path_isn_t_always_a_straight_line?subtitle=en
Video Link 5: https://www.ted.com/talks/erin_mathis_the_power_of_image_to_transform_your_life?subtitle=en
The text provides you with a more traditional perspective on leadership and career management. To learn more, we encourage you to read Chapters 12 and 13 in the online textbook for this course, Human Relations by Laura Portolese Dias.
Chapter Link: https://saylordotorg.github.io/text_human-relations/s16-be-a-leader.html
For this assignment, begin by scheduling a time to talk with your mentor about your leadership style, your career goals, and your personal assessment of where you are in terms of getting to those goals. Review the material in the course textbook and jot down notes about where you are in terms of your career development.
Next, complete and score the following leadership assessments:
Quiz Link: https://www.mindtools.com/azr30oh/whats-your-leadership-style
Quiz Link 2: https://psychcentral.com/quizzes/leadership-style quiz
When meeting with your mentor, do the following:
Tell them about yourself and what you have learned this term. Here are items that you may use to introduce yourself to your mentor:
Personal biographical and professional background.
Your personal vision artifact from Week One.
Relevant results of your reflections and assessments related to grit, motivation, and leadership. (The assessments completed in this course.)
Goals that you wrote related to grit and communication in Weeks Two and Six.
Self-reflections on your strengths and weaknesses in terms of personal wellness management.
Ask your mentor to help you process the information shared as well as the implications this information could have on your personal and professional growth, future career decisions, and leadership in a diverse and changing world.