Week 8

As a follow up to my Week 3 post...

Leading in Complexity

• Explore the viability of taking Susanne Cook-Greuter's Leadership Maturity Assessment (LMA) or the Leadership Agility 360 created by Bill Joiner

In this third week I quickly looked up the LMA and associated cost.  It is $1000 so a bit cost prohibitive, though I might be able to use it as professional development for work to get the cost offset. 

• While I was willing to consider the cost associated with this particular assessment because I though it would be much more personally interesting to me, I reached out twice via email to find out more about taking it and did not hear back.  I also decided that I did not feel like asking for my work professional development to cover this cost as appropriate.

In contrast Leadership Agility 360 appears at first look to be $250 per report, making it more cost effective.  I am going to reach out through email to inquire further in Week 4 about both tools.

• I did a bit more looking into the Changewise website at other potential assessments.  There are two less expensive that can be taken virtually without consultation or coaching associated with them.  Through reflection on topics and what would be given they did not seem to really align with the ides of leadership development competencies and developmental growth, but appeared at first glance to be more style associated, thus not aligned with vertical development. 
• I did choose to purchase a copy of the book Leadership Agility from Amazon and began reading it. 
• I also submitted a request to participate in a call to engage in the assessment itself.  The major concern that I have at this point is timing and engaging others to participate as we get close to the end of the semester.