Guidelines for Espoused Theory of Leadership (ETL) 

The purpose of this ETL is to encourage you to begin thinking about your leadership.  You have learned about Shackleton, have some initial ideas about  Reframing in Part I and downloads, and have completed the  Leadership Self Questionnaire.  

Lead Self instrument  at: http://bloch.umkc.edu/classes/bolman/self_rating.htm

To score the questionnaire go here: Score Lead Self

(You have permission to use these instruments only for this course. If you use them elsewhere, you will violate the copyright)

See also: http://bloch.umkc.edu/classes/bolman/new_page_1.htm

Based upon these resources,  plus  your own thoughts, this assignment asks you  to  develop a short statement  about how you describe your leadership, not leadership in general, but your leadership as you  understand it. Another way to think about the assignment is to assume you are interviewing for a job in which you have formal authority and responsibility for others. The interviewer asks you, "tell me how you plan to lead this group ."

Criteria for Grading ETL

• See On Writing which is is a resource about  writing I have prepared for all the courses I teach at UMKC. After I find three major problems in your writing, e.g., major grammatical errors, terribly convoluted, unedited, awkward and confusing sentences, general incoherence, I will stop editing your paper and you will lose at least a full grade on your paper. If the paper has many more than three major grammatical problems, you may lose another grade. 

• Be succinct. Try to keep your statement to no more than 3 pages (750 words) long.