Final Reflection Paper on Leadership 1
Leadership 1
Final Reflection Paper
Based on the insights you have learned about leadership from the readings, reflect carefully about your own personality, your strengths and areas you would like to improve. How will you leverage your strengths to be an effective leader? What goal do you hope to achieve within 3-5 years of graduating from Ashesi and how will your leadership skills help you?
During the course of the century, many individuals have had the opportunity to hold the mantle and lead large groups of people, but only a select few of these groups, be it countries or organizations, have grown to their pinnacle. This underlying fact is due to the nature and methods these various leaders chose to employ. After successfully completing leadership1, I have learnt about various leaders and how their unique leadership styles were able to affect the people were placed in charge off. Each story line spoke about the same message, good leadership benefits all and negative leadership only pleases the minority and has a detrimental effect on the majority. reflect carefully about your own personality
Leadership is not just about guiding an organization or a society to achieve a set of goals but also about building upon self-leadership. Knowing my personality is the first step to self-awareness. I believe I am an extrovert and with good knowledge of myself has helped me study others and to understand them. your strengths and areas you would like to improve
Prior to partaking in leadership 1, there were some traits I possessed and believed they were fit for a good leader but I soon came to understand that being a good leader is not all about the qualities I possessed or about doing things to please myself, but rather bringing out the best in others. “Our strength grows out of our weaknesses.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson. I have realized that I possess some weaknesses but the best thing is to attack these limitations and turn them into strength. I was not always
Final Reflection Paper
Based on the insights you have learned about leadership from the readings, reflect carefully about your own personality, your strengths and areas you would like to improve. How will you leverage your strengths to be an effective leader? What goal do you hope to achieve within 3-5 years of graduating from Ashesi and how will your leadership skills help you?
During the course of the century, many individuals have had the opportunity to hold the mantle and lead large groups of people, but only a select few of these groups, be it countries or organizations, have grown to their pinnacle. This underlying fact is due to the nature and methods these various leaders chose to employ. After successfully completing leadership1, I have learnt about various leaders and how their unique leadership styles were able to affect the people were placed in charge off. Each story line spoke about the same message, good leadership benefits all and negative leadership only pleases the minority and has a detrimental effect on the majority. reflect carefully about your own personality
Leadership is not just about guiding an organization or a society to achieve a set of goals but also about building upon self-leadership. Knowing my personality is the first step to self-awareness. I believe I am an extrovert and with good knowledge of myself has helped me study others and to understand them. your strengths and areas you would like to improve
Prior to partaking in leadership 1, there were some traits I possessed and believed they were fit for a good leader but I soon came to understand that being a good leader is not all about the qualities I possessed or about doing things to please myself, but rather bringing out the best in others. “Our strength grows out of our weaknesses.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson. I have realized that I possess some weaknesses but the best thing is to attack these limitations and turn them into strength. I was not always