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Personal Leadership Plan—Week 3
Welcome back to your Personal Leadership Plan!
Remember, consider this a “work in progress.” Answer the questions as fully as
you can, but you will have additional opportunities to review and refine each
week. This template is designed to grow with you during and after the course.
Copy the Week 3 material now and paste it into the Personal Leadership Plan file
you started in Week 1.
Do this now to ensure you do not lose any work.
Remember, each week you will add another portion of the template to your plan.
Instructions:
1. Open the Personal Leadership Plan document you saved into your own files in
Week 1.
2. Select and Copy all the text and tables from Week 3, below.
3. Paste the text and tables to the end of the Personal Leadership Plan document
you saved into your own files in Weeks 1 and 2.
4. Read the introduction and answer the questions in the first section; fill out Table
4, Table 5, and Further Reflections.
Let’s get started!
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Week 3: Inclusive Leadership in Action
Quote for the Week
Inclusive leadership means encouraging and empowering your people to bring
their whole self to work, which creates the opportunity for extraordinary
performance. Only when we are fully able to be ourselves, can we truly be
extraordinary.
—Beth Rauschenberger, Vice President of Internal Audit, Nationwide Insurance
Take 5: Summary of Week 3
1. Empowerment: Inclusive leaders enable team members and people they
influence to grow and excel by encouraging them to solve problems, come up
with new ideas, and develop new skills.
2. Accountability: Inclusive leaders show confidence in team members and people
they influence by holding them responsible for tasks and assignments.
3. Courage: Inclusive leaders stand up for what they believe is right, even when it
means taking a risk.
4. Humility: Inclusive leaders admit mistakes, learn from criticism and different
points of view, and overcome their own limitations by seeking contributions from
team members and people they influence.
5. Inclusive Leadership is putting it all together!
Refine Your Personal Leadership Plan
Remember:
Answer questions posed here when you first download the template, or at a later date.
The template is designed to grow with you during and after the course. You may not be
ready or able to fill in every answer immediately.
1. Reflect upon and revise (as needed) Tables 1, 2, and 3.
○ Think about the leaders and leadership attributes you admire, your
leadership vision, and possible actions you have taken and would like to
take now, and in the near future.
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2. Review the “How Would You Respond” questionnaire from Week 1 and complete
Table 4.
○ Which particular attributes from EACH (Empowerment, Accountability,
Courage, and Humility) were you particularly strong on? Which should you
try to exhibit more often? Highlight, select in a color, or otherwise
distinguish whether you were “Strong” or “Need to exhibit more” on each
attribute.
Table 4: EACH Attributes and You
Example attribute Strong Need to exhibit more
Empowerment Strong Need to exhibit more
Accountability Strong Need to exhibit more
Courage Strong Need to exhibit more
Humility Strong Need to exhibit more
3. Identify real-world examples of the EACH (Empowerment, Accountability, Courage,
and Humility) attributes, whether at work, school, or in your personal life.
○ This can include situations in which you exhibited the attribute, or when
you experienced someone else exhibiting it. It can also include situations
that would have been improved by you or someone else exhibiting EACH
attributes.
○ Example 1: I tasked my 5-year-old with cleaning up the blocks from the
floor, after he was done playing. A few times, he did not do it, and I ended
up doing it for him. Later on, I realized that when I did it for him I was not
empowering him to do the task and be accountable for it. This situation
can be easily improved by exhibiting Empowerment and Accountability.
○ Example 2: At work, I noticed that my project leader routinely asks the
same people on the team to do key tasks. These people always get the
best work to do…and the rest of us, including me, have the “left-over”
tasks. In this situation, an inclusive leader will assess who is getting what
tasks on the team, and then ensure everyone has equal access and
visibility.
[Add your real-world examples below]:
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Inclusive Leadership in Action
1. Identify the top two EACH attributes you want to focus on developing , whether at
work, school, or in your personal life, and complete Table 5.
Attribute #1: To focus on immediately.
Attribute #2: To focus on next.
For both provide immediate and longer-term possible actions.
You can select an EACH attribute based on Leaders and Leadership Attributes you
admire (Table 1) or your Leadership Vision (Table 2), or Blind Spots & Challenges
(Table 3), or your “How Would You Respond” results (Table 4). Remember, as your
context changes (work, school, or personal life), you will revise your possible actions.
Table 5: Inclusive Leadership in Action
EACH Attribute Leadership Vision Possible Actions How Did it
(Empowerment,
Accountability, Go?
Courage, Humility)
Example - To empower my team Action for the Week – I will Did anything
#1 Empowerment members and create a talk to my team members interesting or
culture of trust and regarding speaking freely in surprising
openness. meetings, sharing their ideas happen when
and listening to others as they you executed
share their ideas. your Action for
the Week?
Action for the Month - I will
encourage my team to come
up with a new structure or
plan to make sure everyone
has a chance to contribute
and be listened to. (Maybe
emails before the meeting, or
small group work, or report
back. Let them determine.)
Attribute #1:
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Attribute #2:
Further Reflections
Thinking of your own context—whether at work, school, or in your personal life—what
other leadership attributes and behaviors would you like to focus on?
[Next week, paste Week 4 Personal Leadership Plan template here.]
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