Personal Learning Journal

Personal Learning Journal

Contents

    ▪ What is leadership to me? (before and after)

    ▪ Thoughts after the first class

    ▪ Class reflections & reflections on readings/handouts

    ▪ Assignment #1: Filling the gaps

    ▪ Assignment #2: Lines of Developments

    ▪ Assignment #3: Personal integral analysis questions

    ▪ Overview of Takeaways

    ▪ Thoughts on the last day of the course

What is leadership to me?

My answer BEFORE: (Sept. 15, 2006)

    ▪ Leadership is an ability to make a roadmap leading to a right direction

    ▪ Leadership is an ability to lead a group of people to get the work done effectively.

    ▪ Good leaders are supportive

    ▪ May use power, force or fear sometimes

    ▪ Leadership is particially born with, partially learned from training and practice.

My answer NOW: (Nov. 30, 2006)

    ▪ Leadership resides in everybody, and it can be developed

    ▪ Leadership is influencing, a capacity to inspire others to act, speaking and listening in a way that enables individuals to act to create future life conditions

    ▪ Leadership development is about developing ourselves and developing the cultures and systems in which our leadership can be played out with others’.

    ▪ Leadership moves along several lines. Cognitive, emotional, moral, spiritual, physical, leadership development is about development in all of these lines.

September 14, 2006

Thoughts after the first class:

Coming back from my first class last night, I could not fell in sleep as normal, I heard a voice inside of me: “it so won’t be an easy course for you”. Then another voice said: “try to find the right track fast, keep up with the pace and do not fall behind, read more, think more, and learn more, you will gain something”. Of course I know behind this, there was a concern bugs me. I worry about that my language problem will affect my how much I can understand and take away from the course. It won’t like... [continues]

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