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Personal Leadership Plan—Week 4

Welcome back to your Personal Leadership Plan!

Remember, consider this a “work in progress.” Answer the questions as fully as

you can, but you will have additional opportunities to review and refine each
week. This template is designed to grow with you during and after the course.

Copy the Week 4 material now and paste it into the Personal Leadership Plan file
you started in Week 1.
Do this now to ensure you do not lose any work.

Instructions:

1. Open the Personal Leadership Plan document you saved into your own files in
Week 1.

2. Select and Copy all the text and tables from Week 4, below.

3. Paste the text and tables to the end of the Personal Leadership Plan document
you saved into your own files in Weeks 1, 2, and 3.

4. Read the introduction and fill out Tables 6 and 7 under question 1 and answer
question 2.

5. When you are done, go to the next section in the Courseware for instructions on
sharing your commitment to action!

Let’s get started!

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Week 4: Pulling it All Together

Quote for the Week

See it. Own it. Solve it. Do it.

—Gulen Bengi, Brand Champion—North America, Kimberly-Clark Corporation

Refine and Continue to Develop Your Personal Leadership Plan

1. Now that you’ve had time to process the readings, community discussion, and real-
world applications, it’s time to expand parts of your plan. Answer the questions below
for each week based on your expanded knowledge.

Table 6: Week 1—Leadership Vision

a.) Considering all that you have learned since
Week 1, what additional admirable leadership
attributes have you identified?
[answer here]
b.) Knowing what you know now, what
refinements do you want to make to your long-
term leadership vision? Go back to Week 1
and look at what you wrote. Write an updated
version below.
[answer here]

Table 7: Week 2—Blindspots and Challenges

c.) Identify an additional time you experienced
or witnessed someone experiencing bias,
stereotyping, or otherness since the work you
did in Week 2. (It’s an ongoing discovery!)
[answer here]
d.) How could an inclusive leader have
positively affected that situation? (Think about
EACH—Empowerment, Accountability,
Courage, Humility.)
[answer here]
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Make Your Commitment—What Are You Going to Do? Share!

2. Now that you’ve learned about inclusive leadership, it’s time to take action! What
action you would like to take—now, next month, or in the next six months—toward
becoming a more inclusive leader?

Outline your public commitment to action in writing below. Then decide how you
are going to share it! If possible, plan on recording a short video and uploading it to the
course YouTube site.

[Write your commitment to action below]

Return to the Courseware for sharing options and instructions.

Congratulations!
You should be proud of this Personal Leadership Plan you’ve created.
Come back to it whenever you want to work further
on your inclusive leadership skills.

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