PSY 614 Leadership Journal Guidelines and Rubric
Overview: Journal assignments ask you to reflect upon the topics discussed in the course to develop a personal leadership conceptual framework that ultimately
incorporates your strengths and weaknesses, value system, professional goals, and responsibilities to the organization and larger community. Your journal
assignments will demonstrate your evolution in thinking and personal viewpoint throughout the course. Approach these activities as (a) an opportunity to reflect
upon and apply what you learn each week based on the assigned readings, discussions, and activities, and (b) an opportunity to share your knowledge and
expertise based on your educational and professional experiences in the past. As a successful professional, you will need good reflective and writing skills.
Journal assignments offer you the opportunity to further develop these skills. Journals are private between the student and the instructor.
Note: In Module Ten, you will summarize what you have learned from your individual journal assignments. You will self-critique your assignments and submit a
three- to five-page paper that captures your conclusions. This will be your final leadership framework.
Guidelines for Submission: Submit assignment as a Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins. All citations
should be completed using APA format. Research is needed to substantiate claims.
Critical Elements Exemplary Proficient Needs Improvement Not Evident Value
Responses Meets “Proficient” criteria
and substantiates thinking
with clear and relevant
personal examples and
independent research
(36-40)
Journal post includes an adequate
response to the assignment prompt
(32-35)
Does not sufficiently respond to
assignment prompt
(28-31)
Does not respond to
assignment prompt
(0-27)
40
Integration and
Application
Meets “Proficient” criteria
and substantiates thinking
with clear and relevant
examples from module
content
(36-40)
Journal post demonstrates good
depth of knowledge of the module
content
(32-35)
Does not sufficiently
demonstrate depth of
knowledge of the module
content
(28-31)
Does not demonstrate
knowledge of the module
content
(0-27)
40
Articulation of
Response
Submission is free of errors
related to citations,
grammar, spelling, and
syntax and is presented in a
professional and easy-to read format
(18-20)
Submission has no major errors
related to citations, grammar,
spelling, or syntax
(16-17)
Submission has major errors
related to citations, grammar,
spelling, or syntax that
negatively impact readability
and articulation of main ideas
(14-15)
Submission has critical errors
related to citations, grammar,
spelling, or syntax that prevent
understanding of ideas
(0-13)
20
Earned Total:
Comments
100%
My Personal Leadership Style
Student’s Name
University Affiliation
We all have goals as human beings that we wish to achieve. In cases where there is a group of people involved, there is usually a need for motivation towards reaching the goals the members have set and realized. This can only be attained through leadership that will influence the members’ behaviors in order to achieve the visions. Within organizations, management competency which relies on leadership is now ever-present in assessing the performance and development of the organizations (Bolden & Gosling, 2006). There is no alternative that would frame or translate leadership and the development of leadership in the varying frameworks that are seeking to visualize them (Carroll, Levy & Richmond, 2008).
Personally, as a leader I am always motivated to deliver my roles in achieving the set goals and visions, not to mention transforming people’s lives through my leadership skills. I take time to listen to people’s views and thoughts on various issues that are affecting us in our context and search for ways to address and mitigate. One thing I consider that has made my leadership grow strong is to strive towards what is ahead not allowing the past setbacks or failures to come in my way.
Since leadership involves enthusiastically engaging people and influencing them, I find it hard at times since as I am an introvert. But I currently have taken it as an opportunity to learn the process of social attraction in order for me not drift away from the main objective of serving as a leader. Members usually like prototypical leaders who have the capability of being productive in striving to meet the group’s objectives and goals (Hogg, 2001).
Being a leader simply means to serve people and considering them better than oneself. To summarize my personal leadership style I would consider myself as to what Greenleaf (1997) asserts by saying that a great leader is simply the one who is seen as a servant first.
References
Bolden, R., & Gosling, J. (2006). Leadership competencies: time to change the tune?. Leadership, 2(2), 147-163.
Carroll, B., Levy, L., & Richmond, D. (2008). Leadership as practice: Challenging the competency paradigm. Leadership, 4(4), 363-379.
Greenleaf, R. K. (1977). Servant leadership.
Hogg, M. A. (2001). A social identity theory of leadership. Personality and social psychology review, 5(3), 184-200.
