School Project

1. Foundational Guiding
Principles for Results
Assignment #2
By: Ashley Day
Full Sail University || September 13, 2015

2. Abstract
• This presentation examines my commitment to my Professional Statements.
Showing what I learned from Maxwell’s The 360-Degree Leader. And using the
statements to answer the questions about how these statements will help
when I need to ‘Lead-Up’, ‘Lead-Across’ and ‘Lead-Down’. Being a leader is
extremely important when becoming a good Game Designer.

3. Original Professional Mission Statement
• My mission is to become a Game Designer who understands how gamers
think to create games that gamers all around the world would be willing to
play and enjoy.

4. Original Professional Vision Statement
• In light of my hard work and perseverance, I see myself becoming a
competent and hardworking Lead Game Designer.

5. Original Professional Values Statement
• I value creativity, good leadership, communication, understanding, team
competence, hard work, and high quality work; therefore, I will live in
accordance to these beliefs.

6. Original Professional Purpose Statement
• The reason I am learning to become a Game Designer is to be an effective
teammate, an efficient leader, and a creative designer that people around the
world will want to have on their team.

7. Reflection on Maxwell’s The 360-dagree Leader
• Maxwel’s The 360-dagree Leader a great book about how to make someone a 360-dagree leader. A 360-dagree
leader is a leader that can ‘Lead-Up’, ‘Lead-Across’, and ‘Lead-Down’. The book gives us the information on
the mistakes that most leaders make (ie, the myths), the challenges that leaders face and how to becoming a
good 360-degree leader using different principles for each type.
• This summary of the book was very informative and very interesting. It gave good insight on how to be an
effective and well rounded leader. Being able to can ‘Lead-Up’, ‘Lead-Across’, and ‘Lead-Down’, will help
anyone become a more successful leader in the future. Some of the many myths within this, I found myself
nodding along with the books explanations. You don’t need to be in a leadership position to be a leader. You
just need to understand that when you influence someone, you are leading them in different ways.
• I agreed with the many challenges as well. Most people don’t seem to realize that being leaders is harder than
just being at the top. Leading is about helping people, helping them get better and helping the organization
get better. Lastly, those principles were extremely informative and interesting to read. I wouldn’t mind getting
this book in the future to read it more in depth.

8. Questions: #1: Part 1
• In light of your Leadership Development Goals and as a potential 360-degree leader,
how could you use your Values and Purpose to Lead-Up?
• Leading Up is an important skill to have because helping the leaders above you, helps not
only you become a better leader, but helps the organization that you are working with grow
and prosper as well. My purpose is to become a Game Designer. But not just any Game
Designer, a designer that can be an effective teammate that members will want to have on
their team. An efficient leader that follows and other leaders will want to listen to and will
respect. As well as a creative designer that everyone will want to have. These aspects make
me a better leader at leading up because I want to be a better leader. I am willing do go to
the limit to do what I want. But leading isn’t about getting what I want, but helping others as
well.

9. Questions: #1: Part 2
• My values could help me Lead-Up because they are everything that is important to
me when leading or just being myself. I value good leadership. So being a good
leader, I would need to know how to Lead-Up seeing as being a 360-degree leader is
an important aspect of being a good leader. Communication and team competence
is good for Lead-Up as well, seeing as without communication with your superiors,
how can you get anywhere? I value team competence so I would be competent
myself, and one of the main principles of leading –up is being competent yourself.
• Leading-up is an important aspect of 360-degree leadership that needs to be
learned. I believe that my Values and Purpose help me become a great 360-degree
leader.

10. Questions: #2
• In light of your Leadership Development Goals and as a potential 360-degree leader, how
could you use you Missions to Lead-Across?
• Leading-Across is the art of helping your peers become better leaders themselves. To be friends
with them and not compete or only have your ideas go through. Being a leader who Leads-
Across is someone who is willing to help the other leaders get their goals too.
• My mission can help me become a better Leader-Across because leading-Across means using my
skills to help the organization grow. I have always been a gamer and I can understand how
gamers think, more than those who don’t game. If one of my peers gives out an idea which will
benefit the gamer, I will more than likely back that idea, because I believe in making games for
gamers. If someone throws out an idea that is not for a gamer, I will make suggestions and try to
make that persons idea better. It’s not all about my own ideas, they can be good, sure, but using
someone else's idea to make something even greater is even better.

11. Questions: #3
• In light of your Leadership Development Goals and as a potential 360-degree leader,
how could you use your Vision to Lead-Down?
• Leading-Down is the idea of leading your followers, but also making it so that your
followers are able to connect with you on a more personal level than just with boss and
employee. A leader who Leads-Down needs to develop and hone their followers so that they
can better develop and help the organization.
• My vision helps me become a better leader-down because I see myself becoming a Lead
Game Designer. A Lead Game Designer has lots of followers and many of them are leaders
themselves. Leaders always have ideas on how to make things better, so making myself use
the skills of leading-down I would make myself more open to their ideas as they Lead-Up.
As well as helping those within the organization get their ideas out when they are not
leaders.

12. Mystery Words
• Dudley (2010) stated that leadership is about lollipop moments.
• In the video, you stated it was impactful moments, so I was unsure which one you
wanted, so I decided to give you both.
• Greatness is a lot of small things done well.

13. References
• Maxwell, J. (2005). The 360-Degree Leader. Nashville: Thomas Nelson.
• Before you make your goals… (2013, December 21). Retrieved September
10, 2015, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yf2tOYKTgk
• Dudley, D. (2010, September 1). Everyday leadership. Retrieved September
10, 2015, from
http://www.ted.com/talks/drew_dudley_everyday_leadership

14. The End
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