Becoming a leader, values-based
3109.1.1 :
Develops Self-Awareness and Personal Values
The learner identifies their personal values, including honesty, integrity, respect, emotional intelligence, and ethical responsibility, to develop self-awareness through self-assessment.
3109.1.2 :
Describes How Interpersonal Skills Are Applied in Leadership
The learner describes how interpersonal skills are applied to effectively collaborate, communicate, and lead within a team and across an organization.
3109.1.4 :
Explains Leadership of Cultures
The learner explains how the leadership of cultures fosters diversity, inclusion, ethics, and problem-solving.
Introduction
Values-based leaders consider their values in every facet of leadership. Values dictate how they lead, govern culture, make decisions, develop employees, and measure performance, as well as a variety of other applications. Yet challenges arise that can sometimes entice leaders to compromise their values. For this task, you will use the provided scenario in which you assume the role of the newly promoted customer service manager for Corollary Marketing Inc. and complete tasks that will help you to develop as an effective values-based leader.
Corollary Marketing Inc. Company Values:
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Excellence: In character, decision-making, and service to our clients and customers, we strive for distinction and actions of which we can be proud. Each of the following values contributes to this overriding charge.
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Integrity: We do the right thing, regardless of whether someone is watching. Our word is our bond; we carry a duty of care and responsibility to act ethically.
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Humility: We conduct our work without our egos. Our actions embody respect, humility, authenticity, and openness and invite feedback and input. We actively seek ideas and feedback from employees and value every voice and contribution.
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Trust: We extend the belief and feeling that others can be relied upon. We strive to be trustworthy by showing compassion and consistency and by communicating with care and truthfulness. We are authentic and transparent.
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Growth: Our best today may not be good enough tomorrow, and we continually seek to improve. Both personally and professionally, we aim to accelerate employee learning so that we can become better able to meet customer and company needs.
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Respect: We believe that each person (employee, customer, vendor, etc.) has value and rights. We act based on facts and always assume positive intent. We celebrate the differences in people and seek to utilize each person’s unique knowledge, skills, abilities, and perspectives.
Scenario
Refer to the “D253 Task 1 Scenario” supporting document to complete this performance assessment.
Requirements
Your submission must represent your original work and understanding of the course material. Most performance assessment submissions are automatically scanned through the similarity checker. Students are strongly encouraged to wait for the similarity report to generate after uploading their work and then review it to ensure Academic Authenticity guidelines are met before submitting the file for evaluation.
Grammarly Note:
Professional Communication will be automatically assessed through Grammarly for Education in most performance assessments before a student submits work for evaluation. Students are strongly encouraged to review the Grammarly for Education feedback prior to submitting work for evaluation, as the overall submission will not pass without this aspect passing.
Microsoft Files Note:
Write your paper in Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx) unless another Microsoft product, or pdf, is specified in the task directions. Tasks may not be submitted as cloud links, such as links to Google Docs, Google Slides, OneDrive, etc. All supporting documentation, such as screenshots and proof of experience, should be collected in a pdf file and submitted separately from the main file.
You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course.
A. Complete the VIA Character Strengths Survey using the “VIA Character Strengths Survey” web link and use the results of the survey to complete the following:
Note: Remember that this VIA Character Strengths Survey is not a test but rather a feedback tool. There is no wrong answer, so respond genuinely. If you download a copy of your survey results, you will receive a list of 24 items in order of your personal strengths, with the first five being your signature strengths and the last five being your lesser strengths. Refer to the attached “D253 VIA Character Strength Survey Instructions” supporting document for additional information on accessing the survey.
1. Describe an experience in which you used
one of your five signature strengths (i.e., the first five) from the survey results to overcome a challenge.
Note: Consider experiences from a school, volunteer, personal, or professional setting.
a. Explain how you could apply the strength identified in part A1 as a values-based leader in your new position as the customer service manager from the scenario.
2. Describe an experience in which being stronger in
one of your five lesser strengths (i.e., the last five) from the survey results could have positively influenced the outcome.
Note: Consider experiences from a school, volunteer, personal, or professional setting.
a. Explain how improving the lesser strength identified in part A2 will help accelerate your values-based leadership abilities in your new position as the customer service manager.
b. List
three actions you can take to grow in the area identified in part A2.
B. To set the tone for your new team, explain to them who you are as a values-based leader by doing the following:
1. List your top
three values as a values-based leader from the ”
List of Values” web link.
Note: When listing your top three values, consider those values you hold most important.
a. Explain how you will demonstrate
each of the values listed in part B1 to serve
both the team and the organization in the scenario.
C. Based on your understanding of who you are as a leader after completing parts A and B, do the following:
1. Discuss
one leadership challenge relevant to ethics and values that you could face as the new customer service manager regarding selecting and announcing the new team lead.
Note: Consider your purpose as a new leader, ethical principles, relevant stakeholders, your expectations and point of view, and any assumptions you have made.
2. Discuss how you, as the customer service manager, would use
one of your top three values from part B1 and
one of the company’s values in a conversation about the hiring decision with the person who was not selected as the team lead.
Note: Consider values, ethical responsibility, and personal and professional consequences.
D. Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.
E. Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.
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