Leadership capacity is essential for high performing public service careers and organizations. Building leadership capacity begins with individuals being able to lead themselves before they are capable of leading others.
These exercises are based on the attached Dartmouth Leadership Slides. These slides originated from a course that I have been working with for the past three years. My hope is that this ontological/phenomenological approach to learning and teaching will be helpful not only for students perusing a medical career through Dartmouth, but also students perusing a public service career through Roger Williams University.
The learning goals for this assignment include:
• identifying a personal leadership challenge (related to your personal case study assignment), differentiating its content from its context and understanding the role of language in shaping each one;
• discovering one’s limiting ways of being and acting as a leader and their impact on one’s effectiveness as a leader;
• applying the four pillars of being a leader and the structural framework for exercising effective leadership in day-to-day activities and interactions and responding to complex problems;
• understanding and articulating the interconnectivity and impact of leadership, neuroscience, philosophy and language;
• accessing and useing the new, emerging Language of Leadership as taught in this course for the advancement of public service.
Read all of the attached readings and slides before attempting the exercises. Read the slides related to the exercise out loud to yourself, and if possible, re-read them out loud to someone else. Then complete each exercises as described before writing your reflection. Your submissions will be confidentially entered here, and if you would like to share any non-confidential part of your reflection with others taking this course, use the Participation Forum. Eash exercise submissions should be approximately one page but no more than two pages long (500 words). Clearly identify the # of the exercise you are submitting and then copy and paste each submission into the text box as they are assigned throughout the semester. I will create a new announcement each time an new exercise is available, and attach the appropriate reading and slides for the assigned exercise. Use the Frequently Asked Question forum topic if you are not clear or have suggestions related to this assignment and related exercises.

Exercise/Reflection #1 (1 Page)
After reviewing and reflecting on 1 of 7 Human “Being”; Direct Access; Conversational Domains.pptx and http://edge.org/conversation/how-does-our-language-shape-the-way-we-think complete the following:
•How have your moment-to-moment ways of being and acting shaped your effectiveness in tackling your leadership issue?
•When you want a different outcome (action) in life (e.g., hit the gym more regularly, lose weight, study harder, communicate more effectively), how do you go about getting that result?
•Give an example of how a shift in the way the circumstances you’re dealing with occurred for you resulted in a shift in your way of being and your actions.
•What might be the implications of saying: “human beings are given by context”? Discuss the relationship between context and the “conversation that uses you.”

Exercise/Reflection #2 (1 Page)
After reviewing and reflecting on 2+of+7+The+Language+Leadership+Performance+Model.pptx complete the following:
•Study the LLPM diagram and summary, reflect and discover for yourself “as lived” the relationships depicted.
•If there is any word, phrase or interrelationship in the model that you are not clear about the meaning of, or any part of the idea being conveyed that you cannot understand, use the Forum to ask any questions you may have or any clarifications that you need.
•Make a list of the facts of your leadership challenge (what happened that you saw, said, heard, etc.) and a separate list of your narrative (story, interpretations, decisions you made, etc.).
•Begin to think about a compelling future you could imagine and commit to, inside of which tackling your leadership challenge could fit. What could you say (to yourself/others) about this stand (future)? Could it grant you different ways of being and acting as your natural self-expression, as you tackle your leadership challenge and any other obstacles you encounter?

Reflection Exercise #3 and #4 (1 Page)
After reading and reflecting on the RWU Dartmouth 3 0f 7 Slides, complete Reflection Exercise #3 and #4 found in the slide deck.

Exercise/Reflection # 5, 6, 7, etc. (2 Pages if need) Be specific to which exercise you are referring too.
As you read through the 6 slide decks, think about and respond to the reflection/exercises embedded in the slides here for confidential entries and on the forum for those entries you want to share with the class.