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UHL Leadership Experience Leadership Action Plan (LAP) Complete this file to the best of your ability. This may mean leaving questions blank, and that’s fine! You will receive feedback and coaching from an Honors GPS to help you revise and refine your plan. Please try to limit each response to a maximum of 300 words. Part 1: Leadership 1. Personal definition of leadership. In your own words, how would you define leadership? (No dictionary definitions, please; citations from sources are not necessary, but are acceptable if they influenced your personal definition.) How has your experience to this point in your life influenced your definition of leadership? 2. Leadership attributes. What are the attributes you believe someone needs to be considered a good leader? To what degree do you feel you currently embody or espouse these attributes, and in what areas do you believe you still develop to become the best leader you could be? Part 2: Spheres of Influence Our spheres of influence are communities of which we are a part and have connections with other people. You are likely a member of many groups or communities: your family, your residence hall floor, your workplace, your country, a sports team, your town, UConn, a religious organization – any group (two or more people, including you) to which you feel you belong. 1. Visualize your spheres of influence. Create a graphical representation of your spheres of influence. Please include at least five, but no more than ten. You may use computer software or draw by hand and take a photo. Use whatever format makes most sense to you – individual pictures, a web, discrete or overlapping circles, or something else. 2. Challenges. On your drawing or as a separate list, jot down any leadership challenges, general struggles, or potential areas of growth for each of your spheres of influence. Part 3: Leadership Action Plan Your Leadership Experience should contribute to your own personal development and affect positive change in one of your spheres of influence. All parts of the Leadership Experience (LAP, coaching sessions, and final reflection) are designed to help you discuss both of these areas.

1. Statement of goal. In no more than one sentence, what is your goal for your Leadership Experience? 2. Summary. Briefly describe your planned project. Include the following in your response:  Selected sphere of influence  Identified need being addressed for this sphere of influence  Changes or impacts that should be felt within this sphere of influence  Targeted areas of leadership growth 3. Justification. Explain why this project is important enough for you to spend time on it.  Why did you pick this project?  Why is this important to your sphere of influence?  Why do you believe this project will help you grow in the areas identified in the previous question? 4. Complementary initiatives. Are there already others (people, groups, communities, organizations, etc.) making progress on leadership initiatives that are similar, parallel, or identical to your leadership action plan?  If so, how might you complement or support, rather than compete with or duplicate, their efforts?  If not, what steps did you take to verify their absence? 5. Resources needed. What will you need to meet your goal? Consider both tangible (ex: money, books) and intangible (ex: support, willpower) resources. Which resources do you already have, and how might you obtain the others? 6. Timeline. Set yourself a timetable that includes:  Projected start and end dates  Mini-goals or guideposts along the way to your final goal  Specific time frames or dates for your mini-goals. 7. Leadership coaching. You will meet at least once with an Honors GPS peer leadership coach before enacting your leadership project, and they will remain a resource for you until you complete the UHL Leadership requirement.  What do you hope your coaching relationship with your Honors GPS looks like?  How often would you appreciate a follow-up from your assigned coach?

 What kind of feedback or motivation would you most appreciate from your coach?  How do you anticipate this relationship will help you in completing your Leadership Action Plan? 8. Staying Whelmed. This project should challenge you, but not so much so that you won’t be able to stretch to meet the demands. How does this project fit into your personal area of “whelmed” – neither overwhelmed nor underwhelmed? Part 4: Evaluation Plan As noted at the beginning of Part 3, your Leadership Experience should benefit your sphere of influence and your own growth and development. For Part 4, you will create simple evaluation plans for both of these areas. For each evaluation plan, define at least 3 different outcomes:  Perfection: You would change nothing about the experience  Reasonably successful: A more realistic view of what is likely to happen  Minimally successful: A lot goes “wrong,” but you still meet your basic goal Be as specific as possible when defining outcomes, and write in terms of observable behaviors or outcomes. 1. Evaluation plan: meeting the needs of your sphere of influence. 2. Evaluation plan: personal leadership growth.

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