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Speak Up and Lead | Final Assignment Tool

Please review the instructions in the Final Assignment document and complete this tool in its entirety.

1. Applying your values to your work

Think about your values. What’s important to you? Once you’ve thought of your values, think of 2 challenges
at work that you’d love to do something about. Based on your values, outline what you’d like to do about
these situations.

Situation/Challenge Why you care about it/ your What you’ll do/ would like to
values do about the situation

2. Construct your leadership story

A leadership story explains how you’ve previously used your values to make a decision or take action when
faced with a challenge. To help you come up with a leadership story, think of a time you encountered a
challenging situation, what you did about it (the choice you made based on your values), and how the
outcome/result contributed to your current situation.

Challenge

Choice

Consequences/outcome
3. Identify when you’ll tell your story and how to make it engaging

Summary of your Scenarios Strategies you’ll use to make

leadership story your story interesting

4. Practise telling your leadership story

To help you practise telling your story, think about who you’ll be sharing this story with and how they will
connect with it (i.e. what values you might have in common and how they might empathise with your
experience). Share your story more than once to see how different people react to it. Make sure to write
down the feedback you receive from them.

Person – who will you Connection – what do Observations – how did Feedback- what did they
share your story with? you think they will they react when you think about your story-
relate to in your story? shared it with them? what do you need to
tweak?

5. Create space for others to tell their story or lead

What do you need to do to create a space for others to speak up, share their views and concerns, think for
themselves, and take initiative so that they can eventually become leaders themselves?
Opportunities Confidence Skills

how can you create how can you help people to feel more how can you help people
opportunities for others to confident and willing to speak up/lead? build their skills so that they
speak up and lead? can fulfil their potential?

6. Report

Please take a moment to reflect on your learning journey. This is a very important process to make sure you
put in to practice what you’ve learnt to see real impact in your organisation. Answer these 3 questions to
help you reflect on your learning journey.
Do you feel more confident to speak up and lead?

What have you been able to influence when you applied the skills that you’ve learnt in the course?

What else do you need to do to became a confident and inspirational leader?