Assignment 3 instructions
Answer in your own words as a high school football coach and a grad student.
3 Part Quiz Assignment
We will be examining our thoughts, passions, leadership skills, and potential this week through a series of three writing assignments. Each is not very long, and the results will give us a better idea of how to “find our voice.”
The mission statement should be less than 50 words and the tribute, and credo should each be about one-half to no more than one page long.
Quiz Question #1 – Create Your Own Mission Statement (34 pts.)
You are welcome to use any resource you would like to create this part of the assignment. Here is a helpful resource: FranklinCovey – Build Your Mission StatementLinks to an external site..
Create your own MISSION STATEMENT. This will express succinctly what your Life’s Mission is. It should blend both your personal and professional missions in life and can be anywhere between one sentence to a page in length. If you already have a Mission Statement you live by, use it. Here is a 4-step process suggestion from Ken Blanchard on creating your own Mission Statement:
- List some personal characteristics (nouns like Energy, Strategic Thinking, Friendliness, etc) you see in yourself.
- List some verbs (teach, coach, lead, encourage, inspire, build, etc) that describe how you successfully interact with people.
- Write a picture of what your ideal of the perfect community looks like.
- Combine two of your nouns and two of your verbs with your definition of a perfect community. Begin your statement with: “My life mission is…..”
Formulate the results from the completed statements from this site into your Mission Statement. The mission statement should be less than 50 words
Quiz Question #2 – Write a Tribute to Yourself (33 pts.)
Write a tribute to yourself. (See below for an explanation). To begin the process of clarifying our values, we will start by picturing an ideal image of ourselves.
The writing assignment is: Imagine that tonight you will be honored as Coach/AD of the Year. Hundreds of people will gather to pay tribute to your contributions to your family, players, other coaches, athletic directors, school officials, and others in your community. Several people will make speeches praising your performance and your character. What words or phrases would you most like to hear others say about you? How would you like to be remembered tonight? If you could write these tributes yourself, what would you want them to say? I used to ask my students to write their own Obituary, but this is a much nicer form of the same assignment.
Tribute Questions you can answer: tribute quest.pdfDownload tribute quest.pdf
Quiz Question #3 – Write a Credo Memo (33 pts.)
This writing assignment is called a Credo Memo. (See below for an explanation). Imagine in this off-season, your school has paid for a six-month sabbatical, all expenses paid (tough to imagine in today’s budget cuts). On this sabbatical, you will not take any work, or do any work. No communication is permitted with your organization. The writing assignment is: Before you depart, those coaches and athletic personnel whom you work with need to know the principles that you believe should guide their actions in your absence. They need to know the values and beliefs that you think should steer their decision-making and action-taking. You are permitted no long reports, please keep this under one page. Use the previous questionnaire assessments and writing assignments completed in Weeks 1-2 to help you formulate your Credo Memo.
How to write a Credo: Leadership-Credo.pdf
