Saturday, January 16, 2010

Lessons Learned - Class 2: Leadership & making it work

The second day of class came and brought with it a number of new challenges, chief among them my first time looking at my own style of leadership.

I have had to often question my own leadership techniques due to past experiences, moments where I have lost many people's respect due to how I lead a group. However, what I have found is that there was a general consensus amoung groups on what makes a good leader. Everyone seemed to believe that good leaders were ones that had conviction and an ability to drive their fellow team members forward. I'm hoping that my drive to gain exceptional marks in this class will inspire the rest of my group to do the same, and I am hoping that by approaching some matters from outside of the box I will be able to not only lead well but create a sense in my team mates on how important they all are to the process of our mutual grades.

The truth is that I will be relying on my team members to help me find my weaknesses and correct them, and for that reason I will likely begin pushing them slowly harder and harder until they tell me what must change. Right now I'm getting perfect scores from them, but we all need work and I'll be addressing that directly with the next class. I also will be taking the next presentation assignment, so as to force the rest of my group to examine my style compared to theirs.

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