Predict how your dominant leadership style will affect your academic performance in the future. Focus on both the positive and negative aspects.

My dominant leadership style is planning. Based on the leadership chart that we have been discussing during class, planning is described as “Let me think so I can do.” I believe this description is correct because I often spend time updating my school calendar with exams dates for my classes, academic appointments, and projects or scholarship deadlines. Also, besides creating a monthly planner, every morning I make a small list of everything that I need to do throughout my day. At the end of the day, I revise my list, and if I did not complete something that day it becomes my number one priority for the next day.

Planning is one of my strengths that will affect my academic performance in the future because I will stay organized and complete on time my work for my courses. Planning will help me prioritize because I will know how much time I need to spend on each of my school assignments. By prioritizing, I will be able to complete high quality work instead of procrastinating and turning in poor quality work that will have a negative impact in my GPA. In addition, when I set goals in the future, I will normally create a plan of the steps that will guide me to achieve my goals. Planning everything out could be essential because I will learn a head of time how to overcome challenges, struggles or risks that I could face in the process of pursuing my goals.

On the other hand, planning has negative aspects as well. On of them is that I tend to spend a significant amount of time updating my calendar or revising my daily list. This causes frustration in myself because it will take me longer to put into action my strategies to accomplish my goals. Also, being a constant planner could negatively affect me in my academic performance because most of the time I will assume that planning everything out, things will turn the way I visualize them. If they do not, I could loose interest to reach my goals or feel disappointed. In addition, planning could become rigid because it will make me believe that having a plan is the only way to reach a high academic performance, but when there could be a number of alternatives available.