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Leadership Growth Plan

Leadership Presentation

The following videos provide an example of my leadership skills while co-leading a staff meeting at PSAT Academy. The staff meeting covered many components regarding the end of the school year. My task was to present information and training on conducting parent-teacher conferences.

Staff Meeting Video: Part 1

Staff Meeting Video: Part 2

Staff Meeting Video: Part 3

Leadership Growth Plan

The following charts provide a personal analysis of my strengths and weaknesses as a leader, while also addressing how I can improve upon my weaknesses and capitalize on my strengths based on the Staff Meeting videos above.

Identifying Strengths & Weaknesses

Strengths

Reasoning

  • Professional

  • Prepared

  • Alert to the Social Environment

  • Assumes Responsibility

  • Self-Confident

  • Creative

  • Diplomatic and Tactful

I believe I displayed professionalism and creativity through my business attire and PowerPoint presentation, which I had prepared ahead of time for the meeting. I was alert to the social environment by using a comedic video to begin the presentation in order to release tension and stress among the faculty and staff. In the meeting, I displayed skills in assuming responsibility by admitting to being the teacher who sometimes avoids the phone call to the parent and would rather send the easy email. Additionally, I provided examples for how teachers can be diplomatic and tactful in their parent-teacher conferences by using specific phrasing and lingo.​

Weaknesses

Reasoning

  • Dominant

  • Energetic

  • Assertive

  • Persuasive

  • Smooth Communication

Some areas of improvement include dominance, energy, and assertiveness. My natural personality is an introverted, peacekeeper. This can create moments of weakness in leadership as it prevents me from taking charge and ensuring my faculty and staff are following guidelines and truly doing what is best for their students. My lack of energy in this meeting could have been perceived as a lack of commitment to the leadership role or a lack of knowledge in the content. In addition, the lack of energy led to an unpersuasive presentation, which means that my faculty and staff may or may not have been inspired to use the advice, skills, and tactics I presented to them. Lastly, my communication was choppy, leading to a lack of engagement with faculty and staff.

Improving as a Leader

Addressing the Weaknesses

Capitalizing on the Strengths

Two weaknesses that I would like to focus on improving are my assertiveness and energy. This fall, I will be stepping back into a position at a brick-and-mortar school. While in this role, I would like to assert my knowledge and skills as an instructional leader by creating a student data planning room dedicated to each grade level, as well as lead PLC meetings based on this student data. Additionally, I would like to improve my energy as a leader by arriving to school early, coming fully prepared, and involving myself in as many school events as possible to show my dedication to the success of the school, as well as the academic and social growth of each student.

Two strengths I would like to capitalize on are my creativity and my skills in using tact and diplomacy. As I continue to seek out leadership roles, I can use my creativity to aid in collecting, organizing, and displaying student data for the purposes of increasing grade-level (or subgroup) performance in specific subject areas. Additionally, by using tact and diplomacy, I can create easy-to-use virtual communication systems between teachers, parents, and students so partnerships can be built and miscommunication can be avoided. An example of this would be creating a resource that will provide a virtual planner and behavior/positivity chart for teachers, students, and parents to access throughout the week.

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