"Discover Your True North" Assignment 5

Answer the following questions from the required reading in "Discovering Your True North" (pages 121-122). I expect you to answer the following questions with thought and reflection. I should also see from your responses a reflection of your required reading this week in "Discovering Your True North" (pages 103 - 123). If you respond to these questions with short responses and little to no reflection, you will not receive potential full credit.

1. List the values that are important to your life and your leadership. After you have done so, go back and rank them in order of their importance to you.

2. Recall a personal situation in which your values conflicted with each other. How did you resolve this conflict? How pleased were you with the outcome?

3. Recall a situation in which your values were tested under pressure.

a. To what extent did you deviate from your values under that pressure?

b. What resources did you call upon under this pressure?

c. What would you do differently if you had to do it all over again?

4. List the leadership principles you use in leading others. Then go back and rank them depending on which are most important to you.

5. Recall a situation in which you deviated from your True North and your values to achieve your goals.

a. How will you handle this situation if you face it in the future?

b. How can you sense "the slippery slope" of minor deviations leading to major ones later on?

c. When you find yourself being pulled away from your True North, how do you get back on track?

6. List the ethical boundaries that you will not cross.

"Discover Your True North" Assignment 6

Answer the following questions from the required reading in "Discovering Your True North" (page 141). I expect you to answer the following questions with thought and reflection. I should also see from your responses a reflection of your required reading this week in "Discovering Your True North" (pages 123 - 141). If you respond to these questions with short responses and little to no reflection, you will not receive potential full credit.

The following exercises provides you the opportunity to find your sweet spot-that zone where you are able to use your abilities to the fullest and where you are highly motivated.
1. What are your extrinsic motivations? Which of them might become too dominant for you?

2. What are your intrinsic motivations? How do you ensure you are giving them priority?

3. Recall and then list one or more instances in which your extrinsic motivations conflicted with your intrinsic motivations. What did you do?

4. What are your greatest capabilities? How does your work and life use them?

5. List your motivated capabilities, areas where you are both highly motivated and very capable.

6. Envision future situations where you can apply your motivated capabilities in your sweet spot.

"Discover Your True North" Assignment 7

Answer the following questions from the required reading in "Discovering Your True North" (page 158). I expect you to answer the following questions with thought and reflection. I should also see from your responses a reflection of your required reading this week in "Discovering Your True North" (pages 142 - 158). If you respond to these questions with short responses and little to no reflection, you will not receive potential full credit.

The following exercise will allow you to determine the kind of support team you want to build.
1. Make a list of the most important relationships in your life, right now and in the past.

a. What is the most important relationship?

b. Why is this person important to you?

c. In what ways do you look to this person for support?

2. What role has your family of origin played in your development as a leader?

3. Who has mentored you as a leader? Have you had a particular teacher, coach, or adviser who has been influential in your interest in leadership and your development as a leader? How have you helped your mentor and built a two-way relationship?

4. Which friends could you count on if things did not go well for you? Do you have friends with whom you can share the challenges you face openly? Can you give each other honest feedback?

5. Do you have a person support group? If so, what is its value and meaning to you and your leadership?