Leadership development plan is working!
February 27, 2014 in BA352WIN14
First of all, time has past too fast. I cannot believe it is almost week 9! I remember at the beginning of the first week when I was sitting in the classroom, I felt the class was so long and did not know what the purpose of this course is; however, as I was learning more and more materials on how to become a leader, I started to become more interested in this class. The teacher actually had prepared and organized well enough for the class for us to follow, learn, and develop our leadership. Overall, after almost 9 weeks of learning and practicing, I think this class indeed is one of the most beneficial classes at LCB for us. It covered all aspects of how to develop our leadership and how to be professional. At the first two weeks, I learned that the importance of building leadership and professionalism is through emotional intelligence, which can be learned, practiced, and developed, not only just some talents that someone born with it. Then once I got clear on that, I was assigned to form a team to actually practice my EI. as an international student, I often feel not good enough to talk during the class. I thought I will drag down the speed of the class if I stuck on some words or questions that I don’t understand. However, throughout the term, to be honest, I am not afraid to talk in this class anymore… I think one of the primary reasons is that I gained confidence while I am working on the projects with my group. I was being supported and and they often appreciate my ideas and concepts that I brought into the group discussion.
One of the take away lesson I learned from the class or I should say I testified is that if I’m just trying to focus only on the subject I’m doing, I will tend to forget about worrying how others’ or even myself’s judgement, and therefore ended up achieving a better performance.
Also, as I noticed, the materials I learned from this class are working not only to develop my leadership behaviors in a business manner, but it also helps me to shape myself in a positive way to live on a daily basis. I become comfortable when communicating to people around me, like my parents, my wife, my neighbors, and my other classmates at school.
In my leadership development plan, I wrote down so many positives, negatives, strengths, and weaknesses about behaviors. To be honest, now I think that, one of my biggest problem is the lack of confidence when speaking, doing homework, making daily decisions, pretty much everything… Through challenging the process, I was able to jump out of my comfort zone and take one little step at a time. This greatly helped me gain more confidence. One of the outcomes is that now, I can come up with slow but complete sentences when I’m talking to others in English.
Overall, I really like this class.
Now that we have been preparing for almost 9 weeks, it is time for our group to show our work to the teacher and the class. Odd enough, all of us don’t feel nervous at all, because we made the efforts with some sort of passion involved, and we cannot wait to share to someone. Hopefully this class will set up as a cornerstone for us to develop and progress our on going learning life.
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