Reflection
Upon completion of the assessment, my highest strength is enabling others to act and my lowest comes to challenging the process. My navigation skills in group projects usually pertains to me encouraging others to challenge the process, rather than me getting out of my comfort zone to expand my thinking process and creativity. This is prominent in my role as a team representative of my sport, women’s golf. I am a part of the Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC), where team representatives collaborate to discuss what could be improved in our athletic department. Within this group, we are divided into small committees, and I am enlisted in “Healthy Athletes”. We devise ways where we can promote health and sustainability amongst the student-athletes to set examples to the rest of the student body. I enable others to act by listening and treating others with respect before I give in my own opinion, mostly because I am not vocal enough about my thoughts. Recently, I got put in charge of promoting our committee to get our name out there. I’ve built up a twitter account on it, but the tweets are lacking substance. I have done a great job in allowing others to contribute their ideas to formulate the tweets, but what I haven’t done is try different promotional ideas, mostly because of fear of failure. Fortunately, the task has just begun, meaning I can try to advertise by working with the compliance office to have contests and giveaways to encourage others to set examples of sustainability and health.
Action Plans
5 Practice of Leadership
By seeing that my weakness is “challenging the process”, it helped me realize that my habit now is to sit back in silence while other teammates are engaging in a conversation and throwing ideas while I just nod and say, “yeah”. I want to change this completely, which I can do by getting out of my comfort zone and actually think of ways to process the ideas of what others are saying and find a way of making it much more substantial and unique. Although there will be uncertainty of how my group members will react, I should think of it as a way to model the way in allowing my teammates to also pursue a more creative approach. I can measure my success in doing so by seeing how others react to my ideas, even if they do so in a negative way. This shows that even if I am failing, I can still experiment on my failures and try a different approach for new ideas.
Emotional Intelligence
An area I need to work on is within the category of “self-awareness”. I have a tendency of doubting myself, which relates back to my lack of “challenging the process”. I display this by staying quiet and passive aggressive when it comes to developing new ideas. I show this by just nodding my head or agreeing with other people, rather than refuting. I should change this by accepting the standard of there not being any dumb ideas and that any idea can lead to an even better one. I’ll decrease my level of hostility towards others by creating jokes, as I usually do, and place that approach in developing different proposals. In the case that my suggestions are being used, I know I have stepped out of my zone to take more risks.