1. NMP 655
Leadership & Personal Effectiveness
ePortfolio Assignment #2
Leslie Redd

2. Course Overview
The focus of the course was to provide us with
the components and styles of dynamic
leadership. This information was used to help us
understand our personal leadership styles and to
provide us with the necessary skills to adapt and
enhance our personal leadership skills. Authentic
leaders is more than just knowing the skills and
systems, it requires strong personal effectiveness
and the ability to utilize those skills to attain
successful outcomes.

3. Kouzes & Posner - Leadership Practices and Commitments
Practice
Commitment
Model the Way
1.
2.
Inspire a Shared Vision
3.
4.
Challenge the Process
5.
6.
Enable Others to Act
7.
8.
Encourage the Heart
9.
Clarify values by finding your voice and affirming
shared ideals.
Set the example by aligning actions with shared
values.
Envision the future by imagining exciting and
ennobling possibilities.
Enlist others in a common vision by appealing to
shared aspirations.
Search for opportunities by seizing the initiative
and by looking outward for innovative ways to
improve.
Experiment and take risks by constantly
generating small wins and learning from
experience.
Foster collaboration by building trust and
facilitating relationships.
Strengthen others by increasing selfdetermination and developing competence.
Recognize contributions by showing appreciation
for individual excellence.
10. Celebrate the values and victories by creating a
spirit of community.

4. Kouzes & Posner - Leadership Qualities
Honest
Forward-looking
Inspiring
Competent

5. Clarke - Leadership Landmines
Managing the Situation
The Blame
Addiction
It's all about me
The Super Doer
Managing to
Exception

6. Clarke - Leadership Landmines
Leading Your People
The Popularity
Priority
Cloudy
Expectations
Confrontation
Phobia
Managing by
Committee

7. Covey – The 8th Habit
“Being effective as individuals and organizations is no longer merely an option-survival in today’s world
requires it. But in order to thrive, innovate, excel, and lead in the new Knowledge Worker Age, we must
build on and move beyond effectiveness. The call of this new ear in human history is for greatness; it’s for
fulfillment, passionate execution, and significant contribution (Covey, 2004).”
Covey looks at the pain/frustration, problems and changes in infrastruction and solutions or finding of the
Knowledge Worker Age. He goes of the importance of finding your voice or unique personal significance.
Your voice is at the center of your nexus and once you combine your knowledge, attitude and skill you will
have attained the The 8th habit. requires you to tap into your talent, need, passion and conscience to be
able to express and share your voice.
Talent
Passion
Need
VOICE
Conscience
Covey outlines the steps needed to find your voice and inspiring others to find theirs. Covey describes the
leadership challenge as being able to help others find their voice so that they can accomplish the
organizations highest priorities.

8. Covey – The 8th Habit
Finding Your Voice
Discovering your voice
We are all born with three gifts:
1. The freedom to chose
2. Natural Laws and Principals
3. Four Intelligences
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Mental Intelligence
Physical Intelligence
Emotional Intelligence
Spiritual Intelligence
Developing your voice
1. Develop your mental energy into vision
2. Develop physical energy into discipline
3. Develop emotional energy in passion
4. Develop spiritual energy into conscience
Inspiring Others to Find Their
Voice through Modeling
•
The Voice of Influence – be a trimtab; the small rudder that turns the
big rudder that turns the ship.
•
The Voice of Trustworthiness – be
trustworthy; have character and
competence.
•
The Voice and Speed of Trust – build
trust!
•
SOMETIMES THE VOICES NEED TO BE
BLENDED

9. Covey – The 8th Habit
Inspiring others to find their voice is the modeling. Once you have one voice, shared
vision, value and strategy you can begin pathfinding. Aligning your goals and
systems for results. This leads to the release of passion and talent (empowerment).
Pathfinding
Modeling
Empowering
Aligning

10. Mundahl – Your Leadership Journey
Leadership and Personal Effectiveness course was designed to allow the students to
assess their acquired leadership skills and to address their challenges, fears and
insecurities so that they can fully understand what it takes for them as individuals to
become an effective leader. This journey allows us to:
• Start within our own “personal house”
• Set on a path of healing
• Tools to deal with leaders (not always positive) that we
meet on the road
• Heal into wholeness so that we can move forward
• Use of visualization tools
• The alchemy of pure intuition
• Changing a negative culture
• Becoming an authentic leader

11. Mundahl – Your Leadership Journey
Your Inner House – the leadership journey begins with an
assessment of six major life areas:
1.
Money and finances
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Leisure, creativity, and fun
Spirituality and philosophy
Career and education
Family and relationships
Physical and emotional health
Within each of these areas of our inner house there are
practices, habits and values that we use everyday that have an
impact on our journey.

12. Summary
• At the end of the course, we should have had
a better understanding of who we are, and
our strengths and weaknesses.
• We reviewed trends and opportunities in the
nonprofit sector.
• Learned different leadership styles and
performance management.
• We learned how to manage ourselves and
others and enhanced our business acumen.

13. Resources
• http://www.dqpaoc.org/IMG/pdf/The_8th_Habit.pdf
• http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/begin.asp#.UobH
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• Mundahl, S. (2013). The alchemy of authentic
leadership. Bloomington: Balboa Press.
• Covey, S. (2004). The 8th habit: From effectiveness to
greatness. New York: Free Press.
• Clarke, M. (2005). Leadership land mines: 8
management catastrophes and how to avoid them.
Raleigh: Martin Productions.
• Kouzes, J., & Posner, B. (2007). The leadership
challenge. (4th ed.). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.