This leadership class has been very beneficial in helping me look at myself and see what type of leader I am and what type of leader that I want to be and how I can become it. The surveys and evaluations, including StrengthsQuest and the Leadership Performance Inventory. These tools right away helped me realize my strengths and weaknesses that I possessed as a leader. This helped me write my own leadership philosophy. I am hoping to build off of my philosophy even after the class has ended.
From StrengthsQuest, I learned that my five strengths are achiever, competition, strategic, positivity, and woo. Before this test, I would have agreed with achiever and positivity. But I would not have guessed the other three. After reading the definitions and talking about them in class to understand them more, then I began to agree and see why those three would be in my top five. Just by taking a simple quiz, I was able to learn more about myself and learn the ways that I lead best. I also liked how we got to talk and interact with others in class that did not have the same strengths and they were able to explain to us how they best exemplified those strengths and helped us understand how they work best.
One of the activities that I really liked in class was the one where we were put into three groups and each group had a person that was blindfolded in the square and as a group we had to maneuver the blindfolded person around objects so they could pick up the objects designated for our group. I felt like this activity truly exemplified being a leader. As a group, we had to work together amid the chaos that was other groups directing their person as well as the objects inside the square. That is how most situations can go. We have to work together if we want to accomplish difficult tasks.
Overall, I enjoyed this class and the new things it taught me about leadership and about myself. I have used some of the tactics that we have learned in class and applied them to my current jobs. I think that I am a better leader now and will continue to grow as a leader as I use the leadership styles we learned in class and apply them to my positions in life.
Hi Shawn! I also thought it was interesting how the StrengthsQuest quiz accurately predicted our strengths. After receiving the results, I could also see how all the strengths I got related to the way I usually interact with others. I also agree that knowing these strengths allowed me to learn more about myself and how my strengths relate to my leadership technique helping create a more productive environment when working with people of different strengths.
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