For this assessment, read Garner's 2008 article "The Five Minds for the Future," linked in the Resources under the Required Resources heading.

Deliverable

Create a leadership development plan using the following outline. Use your previous assessments to complete items 1 and 2 in the outline. Use the information in items 1 and 2 to help you complete item 3. Combine all three parts into one cumulative paper to submit for this assessment.

1. Global Leadership Theory and Agenda

1.1.  Analyze global leadership concerns for the future.Remember that the concerns for the future must be rooted in global trends.

• Identify the global trends that you see driving a global leadership agenda. Integrate, if possible, the impact of this agenda on your industry.
• Evaluate and link leadership development needs (using resources pertaining to leadership development) to the applicable global trends.

1.2.  Emerging leadership theory to guide a global agenda.Analyze at least two emerging leadership theories that are appropriate for a global agenda.

• Select a theory that is appropriate for professional growth and for guiding an individual global agenda.
• Justify your choice of theory to frame your leadership agenda.

2. Leadership Responsibility to Prepare the Self

2.1.  Evaluation of responsibility to prepare the self as a leader.

• Develop a clear and unambiguous statement validating the need for self-directed leadership preparation for a competitive, complex, and diverse workplace.
• Analyze how leadership preparation should address each of these factors: competition, complexity, and diversity in the workplace.

3. Leadership Development Plan

3.1  Personal plan to support the evolving, reflective self as global leader.

• Drawing on the context you set in outline items 1 and 2, develop a plan that supports your personal growth as a global leader. This step constitutes the main part of your plan. The plan should reflect and flow logically from the understandings developed on trends, future concerns, emerging leadership theory, and evaluation of self-directed preparation.
• Define your development goals.
• Detail the action steps of your plan in the order in which you intend to accomplish them.
• Describe how each action step supports your development goals and how each of the steps relates to and builds upon one another. Be specific and concrete about the action steps you will take toward developing one or more of the Five Minds in yourself. Each action step must be clearly defined, achievable, and have measurable outcomes. Explicitly address each of these elements for each action step.
• Describe how you will evaluate your progress for each step.
• Include a clear statement of how the plan will support or enhance the growth of others.

Appendices should include a calendar for the action steps in the plan. A reference list of at least 10 sources must also be included.

Additional Requirements

• Written communication: Written communication must be free of errors that detract from the overall message.
• APA formatting: Resources and citations must be formatted according to APA (6th ed.) style and formatting.
• Number of resources: Include a minimum of 10 resources.