Portfolio on Leadership

  The aim of the portfolio is to document the results of your personal learning process on a topic of your choice or a subject of relevance to you from the three subject areas "Leadership and Responsibility" (C3.1), "Managing Change Responsibly" (C3.2) and/or "Ethics and Values" (C3.3). Choose one topic from these three categories. The portfolio includes three core elements, which are weighted equally: theory, practice and self-reflection. One possible way of connecting these elements is by applying one or two (no more than three) theories, approaches, models or research results to your professional practice (e.g. "textbook practice" v. "practical reality", a comparison of advantages and disadvantages, classification of practice in theory), establishing links to your own actions in this context and drawing relevant conclusions (e.g. strengths and weaknesses, alternatives, opportunities and risks and future behaviour/future practices) on the basis of this comparison. When reflecting upon what you have learnt in the portfolio, you should therefore consider scientific/theoretical perspectives and practical perspectives and your own personal, individual perspective. The focus here should be on the connection to your own action. For your portfolio, choose what you consider to be the most important learning content, for example one or two theories, select research outcomes, scientific approaches or concepts. If, for example, a specific concept or theory was particularly significant for your analysis of previous work experience, or if a question turned out to be particularly relevant for you, make this the subject of your portfolio. Describe the relevant model or key question and then establish the connection to your personal actions and experiences (e.g. in the past, in specific situations, in the present) based on several examples from your own, individual professional practice (e.g. a project, plan, development). Critically assess the subjects, models and concepts and try to consider the situation, process or question from different perspectives (e.g. your own, those of persons you oversee and/or your own supervisor, those of impartial third parties and customers, etc.). Consider the advantages and disadvantages, opportunities and risks and/or factors that contribute towards the success or failure of actions, which are experienced differently. Outline how you apply theories to practice in order to draw conclusions for yourself and current/future professional actions. Describe which approaches from the learning units you apply to your personal actions (or, if you do not have a leadership role yourself, what you expect of other persons' leadership behaviour), your role in change 3 management processes (e.g. your role in past or future change processes) or your attitude towards an ethical issue in the organisation (e.g. a decision you would make differently today or a conflict/dilemma to which you would respond differently today, or where you would draw different conclusions to the solution actually made – or where you would react in exactly the same way).