Reflective Leadership Plan

Write a 1,400- to 1,750-word paper (you can use first person) translating your course learning into a personal leadership development plan. Your plan should define a strategy for maximizing your leadership, and should include the following components:

Your leadership strengths and weaknesses and what you will do to capitalize on your strengths and modify your weaknesses to improve your leadership behavior and your organization’s effectiveness. Be sure to support your discussion of strengths and weaknesses with your assessment scores from the What’s my Leadership Style Assessment, and the two additional assessments you completed.
Gaps between the leader you are now and the leader you would like to become.
Detailed action items you will realistically implement to close gaps between the leader you are now and the leader you would like to become. ALL action items should be SMART: specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and time bound. Include a realistic implementation timeline for each action item on your plan.
Discussion of how you will actually use your plan to impact your leadership, your followers, and your organization’s overall effectiveness.
Discuss how you will assess and modify your plan to ensure you are on track.

Consider your plan not just a paper to satisfy course requirements, but a living, working document. Provide references to course readings, assessment scores, and appropriate peer-reviewed literature to support your judgments, assertions, and conclusions.

Include at least four scholarly references in your paper.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.