Running Head: Leadership Skills Analysis Sample Paper Analyzing my Leadership Skills In this analysis, I will state a few leadership skills that I consider attributes that I possess and often use while in a leadership roles. I will review times these skills have enabled my personal and team goals to be met and how they helped. I will also bring attention to my sub-par leadership skills that should be cultivated so my full leadership potential could be attained. I will also look at the negative effects of where my lacking of abilities thwarted my team from completing their tasks successfully. Some of my most prolific leadership skills are my ability communicate with my team what needs to be done and what timeline we are anticipating. I try to be clear and concise when giving directions to a team. I try to break down tasking in to multiple smaller goals so they will be easier to understand and accomplish. I believe that this also will give the team multiple moments of fulfillment during the entire process. My mentors in the past have led me to believe that accomplishing small tasks will benefit them and allow them to experience the feeling of marking something off the list I also tend to articulate my leadership styles in ways that fit well with my team members. This subject is spoken of in the class reading referring to the Path-Goal Leadership Theory (Path-Goal Leadership Theory, n.d.). If it is a technical subject and I know that some of my team members are not experienced in the subject matter, I relate the current task to other tasks that they have previously completed. The more that your team can relate to the subject matter the more prone they are to completing their assigned tasks. I believe that corresponding with your team is of utmost importance. I try to use technology to my advantage to make the entire process easier. I prefer to talk face to face but if for some reason, I am not physically available during the day I will initiate a group text message or emails throughout the day. I have even made smaller Facebook groups for my teams to communicate through, send out meeting makers, or even group activities after working hours (Social Media for the New Social Leader, 2019). If for some reason, these avenues of communication are not accessible, I will have morning meetings to put out pertinent information. I enjoy disseminating and receiving constructive criticism to and from my team. If they can give their thought on how to make a job easier the next time or even during the current evolution, I encourage them to speak up and let me know. If it were to be after the fact, we can get together as a team and discuss lessons learned. I feel that this is an important part, especially in during the debriefing process. Feedback is the only thing that will help you evolve as a leader and a team member. There are things that I can improve on in order to evolve in to a better leader. It is important for a leader to know ...

1. Running Head: Leadership Skills Analysis
Sample Paper
Analyzing my Leadership Skills
In this analysis, I will state a few leadership skills that I
consider attributes that I possess and often use while in a
leadership roles. I will review times these skills have enabled
my personal and team goals to be met and how they helped. I
will also bring attention to my sub-par leadership skills that
should be cultivated so my full leadership potential could be
attained. I will also look at the negative effects of where my
lacking of abilities thwarted my team from completing their
tasks successfully.
Some of my most prolific leadership skills are my ability
communicate with my team what needs to be done and what
timeline we are anticipating. I try to be clear and concise when
giving directions to a team. I try to break down tasking in to
multiple smaller goals so they will be easier to understand and

2. accomplish. I believe that this also will give the team multiple
moments of fulfillment during the entire process. My mentors in
the past have led me to believe that accomplishing small tasks
will benefit them and allow them to experience the feeling of
marking something off the list
I also tend to articulate my leadership styles in ways that fit
well with my team members. This subject is spoken of in the
class reading referring to the Path-Goal Leadership Theory
(Path-Goal Leadership Theory, n.d.). If it is a technical subject
and I know that some of my team members are not experienced
in the subject matter, I relate the current task to other tasks that
they have previously completed. The more that your team can
relate to the subject matter the more prone they are to
completing their assigned tasks.
I believe that corresponding with your team is of utmost
importance. I try to use technology to my advantage to make the
entire process easier. I prefer to talk face to face but if for some
reason, I am not physically available during the day I will
initiate a group text message or emails throughout the day. I
have even made smaller Facebook groups for my teams to
communicate through, send out meeting makers, or even group
activities after working hours (Social Media for the New Social
Leader, 2019). If for some reason, these avenues of
communication are not accessible, I will have morning meetings
to put out pertinent information.
I enjoy disseminating and receiving constructive criticism to
and from my team. If they can give their thought on how to
make a job easier the next time or even during the current
evolution, I encourage them to speak up and let me know. If it
were to be after the fact, we can get together as a team and
discuss lessons learned. I feel that this is an important part,
especially in during the debriefing process. Feedback is the only
thing that will help you evolve as a leader and a team member.
There are things that I can improve on in order to evolve in to a
better leader. It is important for a leader to know his/her
weaknesses and limitations. I am a horrible public speaker; and

3. I must work on this area. I may one day be in a situation that I
will have to speak to large groups of people or other city
officials. This is when I have problems expressing myself and it
causes an issue for me.
I sometimes become overwhelmed due to taking on to many
mundane tasks. I also need to work on my abilities to delegate
responsibility to my team and let them be in charge of smaller
ticketed items. This is hard for me, not because I do not trust
my teams, but because I sometimes forget to verify that tasks
are being completed correctly because I become engrossed on
what I consider more high priority items.
Positive reinforcement is another area that I need to improve on.
Many times that I have not even told my team thank you until a
day or so after a project is completed. I know how far that little
gesture can go when you work extremely hard to complete
something. I have attempted to implement programs where I
recognize a team member every week for the jobs they have
done. Fortunately, in the private sector I can recommend to
award employees time off or even monetary bonuses.
I am extremely unorganized and I have to write things down
regularly. The issue with that is I have 10 different notebooks
with training notes, assignments, and meeting dates in them. I
constantly lose these notebooks, so what I have begun doing is
taking notes in my phone. I have found this easier to keep track
of time lines and other things such as meeting and
appointments, because it will automatically set reminders for
me.
Other skills that I would like to develop to make myself a more
efficient leader are communicating better, become more
flexible, motivating my team, thinking outside of the box,
become more diplomatic, and become more proactive rather
than reactive. Out of these, I think that becoming more
proactive would benefit me more in a Public Safety position.
Being a proactive leader in the public safety field would mean
that you are actively looking for faults in the current system and
making those corrections ahead of time. Waiting for something

4. to fail in this form of work could mean that lives are lost and
that would be counterproductive for us.
Analyzing these leadership skills has brought up the good
qualities that I possess as a leader. It has also shown me the
skills that I should make efforts in to become a more effective
leader in the future. This will allow me to develop a plan to
achieve these goals to benefit my teams and myself in future
endeavors.
References
Path-Goal Leadership Theory. (n.d.). Retrieved June 19, 2019,
from UMUC:
http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/leader/lead_path_goal.html
Social Media for the New Social Leader. (2019, June 20).
Retrieved from UMUC:
http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/leader/social_lead.html
Feedback from the Professor,
Good job identifying and explaining the skills you feel are
strong, and articulating why. You also identified through
honest self-reflection those skills you want to approve upon.
I did want to see some type of formal feedback tool utilized to
support your leadership skills assessment.
Strong work
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5. ITS 833 – INFORMATION GOVERNANCE
Chapter 4
Information Risk Planning and Management
Dr. Sandra J. Reeves
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CHAPTER GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
Be able to outline the progressive steps involved in developing
an information risk management plan
Know what is meant by “risk” and a “risk profile”
Know the different ways one would go about creating a risk
profile
Know how one would go about conducting a risk assessment
Know what an information risk mitigation plan is
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What is the purpose of Information Risk Planning”?
Identify potential risks to information
Weighing risks against each other
Creating strategic plans for risk mitigation

6. Creating policies
Develop Metrics
Applying metrics to measure progress
Audit and feedback
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STEPS IN INFORMATION RISK PLANNING AND
MANAGEMENT
Step 1: Survey and Determine Legal and Regulatory
Applicability and Requirements
Step 2: Specify IG Requirements to Achieve Compliance
Step 3: Create a Risk Profile
Step 4: Perform Risk Analysis and Assessment
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Step 5: Develop an Information Risk Mitigation Plan
Step 6: Develop Metrics and Measure Results
Step 7: Execute The Risk Mitigation Plan
Step 8: Audit the Information Risk Mitigation Program
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Step 1: Survey and Determine Legal and Regulatory
Applicability and Requirements
Conduct Legislative Research-Legal requirements trump all
other requirements
Identify the jurisdictions(s) where the company operates
Federal

7. Provincial (international)
State
Municipal
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Step 1 Continued
Approaches to legal research for retention, privacy and security
laws:
Records retention citation service (Example: FILELAW®)
Use online Print resources (Example: Code of Federal
Regulations “CFR”)
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Step 2: Specify IG Requirements to Achieve Compliance
Compile list of external compliance requirements
Map data, document, and records to external compliance
requirements
Devise a method of keeping legal and records management staff
apprised of changes in regulations
Reconcile Internal IG retention requirements with external
compliance requirements
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Step 3: Create a Risk Profile
“RISK” – Effect of uncertainty on objectives1
“RISK PROFILE” – Description of a set of risks2
A part of Enterprise Risk Management
Considerations for creating a Risk Profile
Frequency
External Resources
Stakeholders
ISO 31000 2009 Plain English, Risk Management Dictionary”,
www.praxiom.com/iso-31000-terms.htm
Included in Risk Profile
Identification, documentation, assessment and prioritizing risk
that an organization may face in pursuing a business objective
Timeline:
Projections 3 to 5 years into future
Create annually
Updated or reviewed semiannually
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Step 3..Continued
Types of Risk Profile Methodology
Top-10 list-simple listing and ranking of top 10 risks in relation
to the objective
Risk Map – Visual tool, easy to grasp, grid depiction of a

9. likelihood axis and impact axis-Generally rated on a 1 to 5 scale
Heat Map-color coded matrix generated by stakeholders voting
on risk by color (red is highest risk)
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Step 3..Continued
Information Gathering for Risk Profile
Surveys
Person-to-Person Interviews
Give interviewees questions in advance
Schedule interviews at convenient times and places
Keep interviews as short as possible
Include questions about:
Access and Security policies
Policy development
Policy adherence
Retention of email
Legal Hold policies
Record Retention
Record destruction
Training and Communications
Consider key events and changes that will impact risk
Generate a list of risks and categorize (Example: natural
disasters, regulatory, safety , competitive, etc.)
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Step 4: Perform Risk Analysis and Assessment
Five steps for Risk Assessment:
Identify the risks –The output of Risk Profile
Determine Potential Impact-Include calculations for range of
economic impact in dollars where available. Be as specific as
possible
Evaluate Risk Levels and Probabilities and Recommend Action-
Recommendations for new procedures, new processes, new
investments in IT, and other risk mitigation methods
Create a Report with recommendations and implement-include
risk assessment table where available, include written
recommendations – implement
Review periodically-at least annually but as appropriate for
your organization
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Step 5: Develop an Information Risk Mitigation Plan
What is a Risk Mitigation Plan?
Plan which includes
Options to reduce specific risks and increases likelihood of
achieving objectives
Tasks to reduce specific risks and increases likelihood of
achieving objectives
Timetable implementation of risk mitigation measures
Milestones for implementing risk mitigation measures
Timetable/Milestones for IT acquisitions
Timetable/Milestones for assigning roles and responsibilities
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Step 6: Develop Metrics and Measure Results
Assign quantitative measures that are
Meaningful
Measure progress
What are relevant metrics? – Must be relevant to your
organization. Examples are:
Educe the data lost on stolen or misplaced laptops and mobile
devices by ___ % over the prior year
Reduce the number of hacker intrusion events by ___ over prior
year
Reduce e-discovery costs by __ % over prior year
Reduce the number of adverse findings in the risk and
compliance audit by ___% over last year
Provide information risk training to __%of knowledge level
workers this year
Provide confidential messaging services for the organization’s
top ___ executives this year
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Step 7: Execute Your Risk Mitigation Plan
Set up regular project/program team meetings
Develop Key Reports on key risk mitigation metrics
Manage the process
Use Project management tools and techniques
Clear and concise communication with the IG team on progress
and status

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Step 8: Audit the Information Risk Mitigation Program
Key tools in the audit process?
Metrics used to measure risk mitigation effectiveness
Use Audit results for further redevelopment and fine tuning of
the risk mitigation program
Don’t misuse the audit results-Don’t use it to beat up on people-
Use it for feedback and improvement
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The End
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ITS 833 – INFORMATION GOVERNANCE
Chapter 5
Strategic Planning and Best Practices for Information
governance

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CHAPTER GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
Be able to explain the general steps required in the strategic
planning for an IG Plan
Be able to identify key Best Practices as they relate to strategic
planning for an IG Plan
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First Step in Strategic Planning for Information Governance
Program
Secure commitment/sponsorship of executive management
Resource acquisition
Time
Labor/Manpower
$$$
Accountability
But who??
Suggested: Chief compliance officer, Chief Information
Officer, Chief Executive Officer
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Crucial Roles:
So what is the role of this Executive Sponsor?
Budget
Planning and Control
Decision Making
Expectation Management
Anticipation/Runs Interference for PM
Approval
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What is the role of the Project Manager?
Keep Executive Sponsor apprised of progress
Implement/oversee daily tasks
Track detailed progress
Involve Executive Management only when necessary to do so
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EVOVING ROLE OF EXECUTIVE SPONSOR
The Role of the Executive Sponsor will change over the
lifecycle of the IG program implementation
Initial involvement requires greater TIME investment by
executive management
Early Implementation – Visible and Accessible

15. Post-Implementation – Responsible for maintenance –ongoing
communication with PM
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THE IG TEAM
Who Should Be On Your IG Team?
Take a Cross-Functional Approach
Required:
Executive Sponsor
Legal Department or Outside Attorney
IT Department
Senior Records Officer
Risk Management Specialist
IG Program Manager
Elective:
Human Resources
Analyst
Rep from different business units or departments
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ASSIGNMENT OF ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Executive Sponsor – designation of roles for
Project Manager
Possibly from Legal, Compliance, Risk management, Records
Management or IT

16. Logically each IG team members take responsibility for their
functional area of expertise
Pair up team members or assign small work groups
Resulting output of team effort: Final Draft of the IT strategic
plan – Should be in a form ready to align with organizational
strategic plan
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ALIGMENT OF IG PLAN TO ORGANIZATIONAL
STRATEGIC PLAN
IG Plan MUST support the achievement of the Organization’s
business objectives and its strategic plan
IG Plan MUST be integrated with the IT strategy
Decisions must be made with regard to the use of E-Discovery
techniques like predictive coding technology in early case
assessment and software that uses artificial intelligence
Must take resource allocation into consideration
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SURVEY AND EVALUATE EXTERNAL FACTORS
What External Factors?
IT Trends – What new is coming online? What new is being
developed? Which are too risky? What is the plan for long term
digital preservation?
Business Conditions and Economic Environment-Where is the
industry/country in the recurring business cycle? What is the
state of business conditions in your industry?
Relevant Legal, Regulatory and Political Factors-Identify
regulation affecting your industry. What is expected of future
and anticipated regulation?
Industry Best Practices-Survey your industry. What is your
more progressive competition doing? Will you use 3rd Party
consultants
See Sample IG Best Practices taken from Different
areas/industries on page 61-64
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FORMULATING THE IG STRAEGIC PLAN
Synthesize Information –
Make the plan relevant to the information . Don’t linger
Develop IG strategy for each critical area
Maintain focus by developing IG strategy without regard to
prioritizing critical areas
Prioritize Strategies and map to organizational goals and
objectives
Develop Actionable Plans to Support Organizational Objectives

18. and Goals
Develop policies and plans that identify specific tasks and
steps, and define roles and responsibilities
Build checks and audits and other testing methods
Create New IG Programs to Support Business Goals and
Objectives
Launch new “Sub-Programs” within the IG program
Assign specific employee responsibility to specific tasks
Have defined timeframes for subprograms
Piece together subprograms
Draft IG Strategic Plan and Gain Input from Broader Group of
Stakeholders
Get Buy-in and Sign-Off and Execute Plan
Answer questions of top level management
Address concerns
Get them to buy-in to the program and sign off on it
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19. Write a 3-4 page paper. Must be APA format, 12pt font, no less
1-2 legitimate, verifiable sources, title page, an introduction,
intext citations, reference page. I have also attached files that
are papers I have written about my leadership styles. The paper
marked sample paper is a paper that was actually a paper
written for the class for you to use as an example and the
remarks made by the professor at the end of the paper for their
paper. I happen to have the same professor. If possible do not
use the same references. This is due September 18, 2019 at 10
pm EST 24 hours.
Instructions
The third part of the course long assignment is Leadership
Skills Analysis
For this portfolio entry you will examine your leadership skills,
identify leadership skills and investigate which skills you are
strong in, as well as where you can develop and strengthen your
skills to become a great leader.
To do this you will read the assigned class readings, use online
tools, as well as doing your own independent research, and
review your own leadership experience. You may also solicit
the input of friends and family. Your finished paper will be 3-4
pages long (not including the cover page or reference page, and
attachments) presented in APA (6th edition) format and will
become the third item in your portfolio.
This task is designed to help you identify leadership skills,
evaluate your skill set and plan for future skill development.
You will utilize several online tools identified in the course
schedule to conduct an investigation of your level of mastery of
commonly identified leadership skills. In addition you will
solicit feedback from friend and/or co- workers about your
skills. Your paper should summarize your findings and explain
what skills you have now as well as identifying at least 10 skills
you would like to develop, why you feel they are important to
the future of public safety, and how they will benefit you as a

20. leader.