Leadership Development Model
Intrapersonal
Self-Awareness
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Critical Self-Reflection: The process of becoming aware of one’s own perspectives, assumptions,
and biases that inform how an individual makes meaning of experiences -
Purpose: Discovering one’s “why” and fulfilling that calling through clear personal and
vocational goals -
Personal Values: Deepening one’s understanding of the personal values that guide behavior and
motivate an individual to take action, and acting in alignment with those values -
Leadership Foundations: Understanding theories about leadership, articulating a personal
leadership style, and incorporating leadership knowledge and skills into organizational and
co-curricular experiences
Personal actions
- Personal Responsibility: Taking ownership of personal behaviors, and demonstrating a willingness
and ability to initiate action - Change Management: Exercising adaptability, optimism, and the ability to respond productively
to uncertainty - Receiving and Providing Feedback:
- Developing strategies to offer critiques and advice
- Valuing constructive feedback to develop individual capacities and effectiveness
- Functioning Independently: Exercising independence and autonomy when completing tasks
- Commitment: Demonstrating a dependable, trustworthy character and exercising persistence
and commitment in the face of adversity
Learning and reasoning
- Reflection and Application: Establishing a continuous commitment to learning, reflection,
integration, and application - Innovation: Generating new ideas and solutions to address complex problems in an ever-evolving
landscape - Problem Solving: Understanding how to identify and examine a problem, develop and assess possible
solutions, and select the most appropriate solution - Decision Making: Understanding the factors influencing a decision and incorporating multiple
perspectives into the decision-making process - Critical Thinking:
- Engaging in rigorous critique with an open mind
- Analyzing, synthesizing and evaluating information, systems, assumptions, and points of view
Interpersonal
Group Dynamics
- Group Development:
- Understanding the culture, norms, practices, and behaviors specific to an organization
- Implementing strategies to assist groups in developing a sense of shared purpose,
commitment, trust, and effectiveness
-
Collaboration: Implementing strategies to achieve a common objective through the sharing of ideas
and distribution of responsibilities across group members -
Communication: Understanding strategies to effectively and persuasively communicate with others
- Conflict Management:
- Engaging difference through respectful dialogue and a commitment to hearing
other’s perspectives - Developing strategies to effectively manage disagreements, balancing the needs and interests of
all involved, and finding common ground
- Engaging difference through respectful dialogue and a commitment to hearing
- Commitment to the Growth of People:
- Exemplifying a commitment to the growth of each person in a group or organization
- Sharing knowledge, abilities, and experiences to help develop the capacities of others in an effort
to maintain the productivity and legacy of an organization
- Interdependence: Valuing the relational aspects of leadership resulting in an awareness of the
interconnectedness with others
DIVERSITY, INCLUSION, and cultural competence
- Diversity: Acknowledging, accepting, and valuing difference including intersectional identities
- Inclusion:
- Active consideration and inclusion of diverse opinions, experiences, and outlooks
- Inviting individuals to share perspectives, and contribute to a cause or task
- Providing individualized strategies that promotes a sense of belonging for each group member
- Social Perspective-Taking: Suspending one’s frame of reference to see the world through
others’ perspectives
COMMUNITY
CIVIC RESPONSIBILITY
- Social Responsibility:
- Recognizing one’s responsibility to the welfare of society and its members
- Enacting this responsibility and commitment through participation in experiences that positively
contribute to a community or specific systemic issue
- Global Citizenship:
- Acknowledging the interdependence of individuals working together towards positive change
- Recognizing that effective democracy involves individual and collective responsibility
and commitment to the welfare of others
Social justice
- Critical Awareness: Awareness of systems of privilege and oppression that contribute to inequitable
distributions of power based on social location - Social Action: Demonstrating the motivation, value, and commitment to create more just, humane,
and equitable systems within one’s own sphere of influence - Critical Hope: Exercising resilient hope and persistence in the collective struggle to redress inequitable
systems and produce positive change
Intrapersonal
Self-Awareness
-
Critical Self-Reflection: The process of becoming aware of one’s own perspectives, assumptions,
and biases that inform how an individual makes meaning of experiences -
Purpose: Discovering one’s “why” and fulfilling that calling through clear personal and
vocational goals -
Personal Values: Deepening one’s understanding of the personal values that guide behavior and
motivate an individual to take action, and acting in alignment with those values -
Leadership Foundations: Understanding theories about leadership, articulating a personal
leadership style, and incorporating leadership knowledge and skills into organizational and
co-curricular experiences
Personal actions
- Personal Responsibility: Taking ownership of personal behaviors, and demonstrating a willingness
and ability to initiate action - Change Management: Exercising adaptability, optimism, and the ability to respond productively
to uncertainty - Receiving and Providing Feedback:
- Developing strategies to offer critiques and advice
- Valuing constructive feedback to develop individual capacities and effectiveness
- Functioning Independently: Exercising independence and autonomy when completing tasks
- Commitment: Demonstrating a dependable, trustworthy character and exercising persistence
and commitment in the face of adversity
Learning and reasoning
- Reflection and Application: Establishing a continuous commitment to learning, reflection,
integration, and application - Innovation: Generating new ideas and solutions to address complex problems in an ever-evolving
landscape - Problem Solving: Understanding how to identify and examine a problem, develop and assess possible
solutions, and select the most appropriate solution - Decision Making: Understanding the factors influencing a decision and incorporating multiple
perspectives into the decision-making process - Critical Thinking:
- Engaging in rigorous critique with an open mind
- Analyzing, synthesizing and evaluating information, systems, assumptions, and points of view
Interpersonal
Group Dynamics
- Group Development:
- Understanding the culture, norms, practices, and behaviors specific to an organization
- Implementing strategies to assist groups in developing a sense of shared purpose,
commitment, trust, and effectiveness
-
Collaboration: Implementing strategies to achieve a common objective through the sharing of ideas
and distribution of responsibilities across group members -
Communication: Understanding strategies to effectively and persuasively communicate with others
- Conflict Management:
- Engaging difference through respectful dialogue and a commitment to hearing
other’s perspectives - Developing strategies to effectively manage disagreements, balancing the needs and interests of
all involved, and finding common ground
- Engaging difference through respectful dialogue and a commitment to hearing
- Commitment to the Growth of People:
- Exemplifying a commitment to the growth of each person in a group or organization
- Sharing knowledge, abilities, and experiences to help develop the capacities of others in an effort
to maintain the productivity and legacy of an organization
- Interdependence: Valuing the relational aspects of leadership resulting in an awareness of the
interconnectedness with others
DIVERSITY, INCLUSION, and cultural competence
- Diversity: Acknowledging, accepting, and valuing difference including intersectional identities
- Inclusion:
- Active consideration and inclusion of diverse opinions, experiences, and outlooks
- Inviting individuals to share perspectives, and contribute to a cause or task
- Providing individualized strategies that promotes a sense of belonging for each group member
- Social Perspective-Taking: Suspending one’s frame of reference to see the world through
others’ perspectives
COMMUNITY
CIVIC RESPONSIBILITY
- Social Responsibility:
- Recognizing one’s responsibility to the welfare of society and its members
- Enacting this responsibility and commitment through participation in experiences that positively
contribute to a community or specific systemic issue
- Global Citizenship:
- Acknowledging the interdependence of individuals working together towards positive change
- Recognizing that effective democracy involves individual and collective responsibility
and commitment to the welfare of others
Social justice
- Critical Awareness: Awareness of systems of privilege and oppression that contribute to inequitable
distributions of power based on social location - Social Action: Demonstrating the motivation, value, and commitment to create more just, humane,
and equitable systems within one’s own sphere of influence - Critical Hope: Exercising resilient hope and persistence in the collective struggle to redress inequitable
systems and produce positive change