Personal journal reflection

Journaling Opportunity – this reflection focuses on the application of the course learnings from K&P’s Practice 2 as it pertains to the development of your Personal Leadership Practice.

Be specific and intentional with your responses to the following four questions.

1. Identify your most impactful learnings. Reflect on the topics, activities and discussions relating to K&P’s Practice 2 of Inspiring a Shared Vision, discussing what has been most impactful to you. Explain why.
2. Allowing yourself to look inward, what roadblocks or obstacles may currently be hindering your leadership growth and/or the development of your Personal Leadership Practice? Explain.
3. Kouzes and Posner’s second leadership practice is to Inspire a Shared Vision. As you reflect on the learnings of chapters 4 and 5 consider the following Actions listed below, and specifically choose one or two actions that resonate most for you in your leadership development. Discuss specifically how you will action the Actions you have chosen. ACTIONS:

• Determine what drives you and where your passions lie in order to identify what you care about to compel you towards a personal vision that represents ‘your best self’.
• Spend a higher percentage of your time focused on the future, imagining the possibilities.
• Let your passions show in a manner genuinely expressive of who you are.
• Talk with others to find out about their hopes, dreams, and aspirations for the future. Acknowledge the emotions of others and validate them as important.

4. Identify and explain what tool(s) have you added to your leadership toolkit from your investigation of Practice 2.

5. Discuss what K&P’s Practice 2 of Inspiring A Shared Vision impacts your leadership skills and attributes in development of your own personal leadership practice.

NOTE: This reflection must focus on the application of the course learnings as it pertains to K&P’s Practice 2 as it applies to the development of your Leadership practice/philosophy.

Respond in order to the questions posed in this assignment with headers: Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4, Q5 As an academic submission, you will include specific and relevant references to the course material.

Response minimum word count: 500 words. Include word count at the end of your journal submission.

Refer to course syllabus and rubric for additional details on this assignment.