You've defined leadership and explored leadership roles and responsibilities. Now you want to find out how you measure up as a leader by evaluating your own leadership traits, determining how others see you in a leadership role, and considering factors that will affect your plan to develop and grow. In this lesson, you will assess your leadership traits.

Now that you have assessed your leadership traits, you can begin to map out your leadership development plan. As with any journey, this requires a map to determine where you're headed and establish the checkpoints along the way. This map will help you define the course of action needed to move forward in the direction of becoming a better leader. In this lesson, you will establish your leadership plan.

You've assessed your leadership traits and established your leadership development plan. Now it's time to develop one of the core skill sets all effective leaders need to excel. In this lesson, you will develop your communication skills.

You've acquired strategies to improve your ability to listen and communicate more effectively with colleagues and others. Now you'll want to show others you're an honorable person who can be trusted to influence and inspire others to get things done. In this lesson, you will build your reputation.

You'll wrap things up and then validate what you've learned in this course by taking an assessment.