Creating Leadership Portfolio for a Manager

                                                                     Creating Leadership Portfolio

                                                                Leadership Development Project (30% total)
                                                                Personal Leadership History Report (10%)
                                                                Personal Leadership Portfolio (20%)

Introduction
The final course deliverable is an extensive real-world project: an individual leadership portfolio.
This portfolio will yield a product for you to share with prospective or current employers in order
to enhance your employment possibilities and promotion potential. The portfolio is the second of
two deliverables comprising the assessment; a Personal Leadership History Report (discussed in
the section below) is due first and leads to the Personal Leadership Portfolio.
The course project promotes your development and personal commitment to the required
knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) required for understanding, assimilating, and
demonstrating professional public safety leadership. In preparing your portfolio, you will have the
opportunity to review leadership from a historical and an operational perspective and will be able
to evaluate your own leadership style and effectiveness.
Completion of the course-long personal leadership project solidifies foundation KSAs in order to:

evaluate decision making in relation to historic and current issues in public safety through case
studies and simulation explain the relationship between successful leadership, organizational development, and
technology and the way these factors affect decision making
discuss the importance of ethics, globalization, systems thinking, proactive leadership, and
leader-follower relationships to successful leadership in public safety
identify and discuss the major leadership theories and concepts applicable to public safety
explain the importance of leadership in organizational processes and change
cite examples of successful leadership styles and techniques in progressive public administration
complete case study reviews and an operational simulation based on major public safety issues
identify future public safety challenges and potential solutions
synthesize your learning experience in your major discipline to apply the knowledge and skills to
practical individual and organizational challenges
The Leadership Development Project Process
The project is a course-length process managed using specified development steps that
correlate with specific course materials. Aspects of this process will be addressed in the course
conferences each week. The first of the two project deliverables is the personal leadership
history report.
Personal Leadership Portfolio

The final course deliverable, the Personal Leadership Portfolio, is created by incorporating
targeted leadership knowledge development, self-assessment assignments, and homeland
security or public safety leadership analysis. The portfolio represents a personal understanding
and plan of public safety leadership based on the course research, module content, discussions,
reports, simulation, and your leadership performance.
The process requires weekly demonstration of leadership knowledge development through
conference discussion opportunities and leadership self-assessment assignments. The
submissions are assessed for accuracy and completeness against project requirements and
ensure that the development of leadership knowledge, assessment, and analysis provides a
maximum foundation for the sequential portfolio development. The completed personal
leadership portfolio correlates with professional homeland security and public safety leadership
best practices, resulting in a tangible product that can become a base for future leadership
development.
> Assessment Sequence
The project is made up of sequential steps that constitute the required actions of semester-long
portfolio development. The process assessment utilizes a recommended portfolio document
structure.
1. Gather—the gathering of course and outside leadership materials and resources.

2. Research—narrowing the focus of academic and anecdotal leadership topics to professional
homeland security or public safety leadership topics.
3. Organize—establish an information-handling process in order to coordinate resources,
sources, and gathered data. Monitor for policy topic research completeness through use of an
information-handling and organization process.
4. Analyze and evaluate—compare, contrast, and judge resource material to develop cogent
documentation.
5. Assess—assimilate personal leadership history report results with cogent documentation,
demonstrating the nexus between personal leadership history and data with academic and
anecdotal resources. This step may also include assessing past leadership opportunities for
lessons learned.
6. Apply—based on steps 1-5, determine personal leadership styles and traits and how the
determination can be applied in a professional homeland security or public safety setting. This
step will also include personal leadership strengths and challenges for future development.
7. Create a personal leadership development plan for your future in public safety.

> Personal Leadership Portfolio Document Structure and Content Topics
The body of the Personal Leadership Portfolio shall be at least 12 pages, excluding other
material such as the cover page, table of contents, abstract, graphics and tables, and references.

The paper shall be presented in APA (6th edition) format, all margins should be 1”, 12 point font,
and be in either Arial or New Times Roman font style. In the following descending order of
preference, information sources must be either peer-reviewed articles, government reports, or
other sources approved by your instructor. Internet information sources from other than
authoritative sources are discouraged. See the Personal Leadership Portfolio grading rubric for
more information. The personal leadership portfolio shall cover all of the following topics:
presentation and discussion of academic and anecdotal resource materials
deconstruction of current homeland security or public safety leadership
identification of acceptable and effective professional homeland security or public safety
leadership principles collation of data from personal leadership self-assessment assignments
comparison and contrast of self-assessment data, to include applicability, with best practices and
identified leadership principles presentation and discussion of future personal leadership development and opportunity
The completed personal leadership portfolio correlates with professional homeland security and
public safety leadership best practices, resulting in a tangible product that can become a base for
future leadership development.
Information sources must be either peer-reviewed articles and or government reports.
Add graphic chart but must be not be counted as part of the 12 pages of the portfolio.