The final course deliverable, the Personal Leadership Portfolio, is created by incorporating targeted leadership knowledge development, self-assessment assignments, and homeland security or public safety leadership analysis. The portfolio represents a personal understanding and plan of public safety leadership based on the course research, textbooks, module content, conferences, reports, simulation, and your leadership performance. The process requires weekly demonstration of leadership knowledge development through conference discussion opportunities and leadership self-assessment assignments. The submissions are assessed for accuracy and completeness against project requirements and ensure that the development of leadership knowledge, assessment, and analysis provides a maximum foundation for the sequential portfolio development. The completed personal leadership portfolio correlates with professional homeland security and public safety leadership best practices, resulting in a tangible product that can become a base for future leadership development. Assessment Sequence The project is made up of sequential steps that constitute the required actions of semester-long portfolio development. The process assessment utilizes a recommended portfolio document structure. 1.    Gather —the gathering of course and outside leadership materials and resources. 2.    Research —narrowing the focus of academic and anecdotal leadership topics to professional homeland security or public safety leadership topics. 3.    Organize —establish an information-handling process in order to coordinate resources, sources, and gathered data. Monitor for policy topic research completeness through use of an information-handling and organization process. 4.    Analyze and evaluate —compare, contrast, and judge resource material to develop cogent documentation. 5.    Assess —assimilate personal leadership history report results with cogent documentation, demonstrating the nexus between personal leadership history and data with academic and anecdotal resources. This step may also include assessing past leadership opportunities for lessons learned. 6.    Apply —based on steps 1-5, determine personal leadership styles and traits and how the determination can be applied in a professional homeland security or public safety setting. This step will also include personal leadership strengths and challenges for future development. 7.    Create  a personal leadership development plan for your future in public safety. Personal Leadership Portfolio Document Structure and Content Topics The personal leadership portfolio will be a paper of at least 12 pages (not including the cover and reference page, and attachments), presented in APA (6 th  edition) format, and structured so as to cover all of the following topics: presentation and discussion of academic and anecdotal resource materials deconstruction of current homeland security or public safety leadership identi.

1. The final course deliverable, the Personal Leadership Portfolio,
is created by incorporating targeted leadership knowledge
development, self-assessment assignments, and homeland
security or public safety leadership analysis. The portfolio
represents a personal understanding and plan of public safety
leadership based on the course research, textbooks, module
content, conferences, reports, simulation, and your leadership
performance.
The process requires weekly demonstration of leadership
knowledge development through conference discussion
opportunities and leadership self-assessment assignments. The
submissions are assessed for accuracy and completeness against
project requirements and ensure that the development of
leadership knowledge, assessment, and analysis provides a
maximum foundation for the sequential portfolio development.
The completed personal leadership portfolio correlates with
professional homeland security and public safety leadership best
practices, resulting in a tangible product that can become a base
for future leadership development.
Assessment Sequence
The project is made up of sequential steps that constitute the
required actions of semester-long portfolio development. The
process assessment utilizes a recommended portfolio document
structure.
1.
Gather
—the gathering of course and outside leadership materials and
resources.
2.
Research

2. —narrowing the focus of academic and anecdotal leadership
topics to professional homeland security or public safety
leadership topics.
3.
Organize
—establish an information-handling process in order to
coordinate resources, sources, and gathered data. Monitor for
policy topic research completeness through use of an
information-handling and organization process.
4.
Analyze and evaluate
—compare, contrast, and judge resource material to develop
cogent documentation.
5.
Assess
—assimilate personal leadership history report results with
cogent documentation, demonstrating the nexus between
personal leadership history and data with academic and
anecdotal resources. This step may also include assessing past
leadership opportunities for lessons learned.
6.
Apply
—based on steps 1-5, determine personal leadership styles and
traits and how the determination can be applied in a
professional homeland security or public safety setting. This
step will also include personal leadership strengths and
challenges for future development.
7.
Create
a personal leadership development plan for your future in
public safety.
Personal Leadership Portfolio Document Structure and Content
Topics

3. The personal leadership portfolio will be a paper of at
least 12 pages
(not including the cover and reference page, and attachments),
presented in APA (6
th
edition) format, and structured so as to cover all of the
following topics:
presentation and discussion of academic and anecdotal resource
materials
deconstruction of current homeland security or public safety
leadership
identification of acceptable and effective professional homeland
security or public safety leadership principles
collation of data from personal leadership self-assessment
assignments
comparison and contrast of self-assessment data, to include
applicability, with best practices and identified leadership
principles
presentation and discussion of future personal leadership
development and opportunity
The completed personal leadership portfolio correlates with
professional homeland security and public safety leadership best

4. practices, resulting in a tangible product that can become a base
for future leadership development.