Strategic Leadership Case Study

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1. Reflect on the possible personal leadership challenges you will face working at the Strategic Leader level and explain your long term leadership development goals that may help you better prepare for those challenges.

a. I have never held a position that required me to exercise strategic leadership. My leadership experience has primarily occurred at the tactical level and I have only briefly encountered the operational level. All aspects of strategic leadership will challenge me, in particular the complex, abstract, and ambiguous problem sets that are standard for a strategic leader. Strategic leadership will stretch and test me in my critical thinking and administrative skills in dimensions in which I have never been challenged before. I am cognizant that my skill set and experience from leading at the tactical level will not necessarily transfer to the strategic level. The executive assessment highlighted a number of my weaknesses. These weak areas must experience growth and development, if I expect to effectively lead and produce results at the strategic level.

b. My long term leadership development goals are to enhance my decision quality, improve my administrative abilities, and exercise a greater degree of patience. …show more content…

Describe the major findings concerning your leadership strengths and weaknesses resulting from your EADP Insights/ coaching experience. Be sure to differentiate between self-preference insights and the awareness of any “perception of others.”

a. Executive assessment findings regarding my strengths as scored by others include the following: interpersonal competence, supportive leadership, assertive leadership, professional competence, conceptual competence, and socio-political awareness. The highest scores were never self-serving, never inaccessible, and assertive leadership. My strengths as determined by superiors, peers, and subordinates indicate that I possess effective leadership, professional competence, and an even keel

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