Task 1: What is yours why?
Developing you’re why is a way to explore your values as they relate to the helping professions. Whether you are a Social Care Worker, Team Leader, Manager, or student on placement, your past experiences and values will be driving your willingness to contribute to the lives of others. This part of the portfolio offers you an opportunity to articulate your why. Keep it brief, one or two sentences. Make sure you articulate your impact and contribution. Try to keep it as short as possible, one sentence or two sentences. You may need to re-word and rewrite it a few times until you are satisfied with it. Don’t worry, this is part of the process.
Simple and clear.
Actionable.
Focused on how you’ll contribute to others, and.
Expressed in affirmative language that resonates with you.
Task 2: Leadership Style Questionnaire
As you are now aware, the Leadership Style Questionnaire measures three leadership styles, autocratic, democratic, and laissez-faire. You are required to administer this questionnaire and discuss your scores in each area. Please pay attention to scores that are low and those that are high. Based on your knowledge of these three styles, critically reflect on the implications of these scores for your leadership approach and future development as a leader.
Task 3: Theory of Needs
McClelland’s Theory of Needs assesses your main motivational drivers as they pertain to the workplace, thus impacting your leadership. The three motivational factors of achievement, affiliation, and power can hugely impact those around you, including other team members, and those you lead. You are required to self-administer this questionnaire and discuss your scores in these three areas, please pay particular attention to low and high scores. In addition, please discuss how these scores can interact with the scores on the Leadership Styles Questionnaire (LSQ). Again you must draw on the literature to support your critical analyses.
Task 4: Reflective Practice Assessment
The Reflective Practice Assessment considers how you reflect in five key areas. It is a helpful assessment for providing awareness of our blind spots and strengths in these reflective areas. Please critically assess your scores, paying attention to those areas where you can further improve these reflective areas and how they interact with your previous assessment scores. For example, how can you use these areas to implement the learning from the LSQ and Theory of Needs, and to support your ongoing development as an emerging leader in social care?