Self-Leadership Questionnaire and Reflective Commentary

This task includes completing the Self-Leadership Questionnaire and Reflective Commentary to learn about self-leadership and its importance in career development. The Personal Development Plan helps to identify development needs and options, plan for development activities, and apply new knowledge/skills/behaviors in the workplace. The goal is to become an effective leader and manage oneself and other employees in the workplace.

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Task 1. Self-Leadership Questionnaire (Houghton and Neck, 2002)
Read each of the following items carefully and try to decide how true the statement is in
describing you.
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(1) I use my imagination to picture
myself performing well on
important tasks
(2) I establish specific goals for my
own performance.
(3) Sometimes I find I’m talking to
myself (out loud or in my head)
to help me deal with difficult
problems I face.
(4) When I do an project especially
well, I like to treat myself to
some thing or activity I
especially enjoy.
(5) I think about my own beliefs
and assumptions whenever I
encounter a difficult situation.
(6) I tend to get down on myself in
my mind when I have
performed poorly.
(7) I make a point to keep track of
how well I’m doing at work
(school).
(8) I focus my thinking on the
pleasant rather than the
unpleasant aspects of my job
(school) activities
(9) I use written notes to remind
myself of what I need to
accomplish.
(10) I visualize myself successfully
performing a task before I do it.
(11) I consciously have goals in mind

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for my work efforts.
(12) Sometimes I talk to myself (out
loud or in my head) to work
through difficult situations.
(13) When I do something well, I
reward myself with a special
event such as a good dinner,
movie, shopping trip, etc.
(14) I try to mentally evaluate the
accuracy of my own beliefs
about situations I am having
problems with.
(15) I tend to be tough on myself in
my thinking when I have not
done well on a task.
(16) I usually am aware of how well
I’m doing as I perform an
activity.
(17) I try to surround myself with
objects and people that bring
out my desirable behaviours.
(18) I use concrete reminders (e.g.,
notes and lists) to help me
focus on things I need to
accomplish.
(19) Sometimes I picture in my mind
a successful performance
before I actually do a task.
(20) I work toward specific goals I
have set for myself.
(21) When I’m in difficult situations I
will sometimes talk to myself
(out loud or in my head) to help
me get through it.
(22) When I have successfully
completed a task, I often
reward myself with something I
like.
(23) I openly articulate and evaluate

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my own assumptions when I
have a disagreement with
someone else.
(24) I feel guilt when I perform a
task poorly.
(25) I pay attention to how well I’m
doing in my work.
(26) When I have a choice, I try to
do my work in ways that I enjoy
rather than just trying to get it
over with.
(27) I purposefully visualize myself
overcoming the challenges I
face.
(28) I think about the goals that I
intend to achieve in the future.
(29) I think about and evaluate the
beliefs and assumptions I hold.
(30) I sometimes openly express
displeasure with myself when I
have not done well.
(31) I keep track of my progression
projects I’m working on.
(32) I seek out activities in my work
that I enjoy doing.
(33) I often mentally rehearse the
way I plan to deal with a
challenge before I actually face
the challenge.
(34) I write specific goals for my
own performance.
(35) I find my own favourite ways to
get things done.

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Task 2: Reflective Commentary (300-500 words)
Answer the following questions on this week’s sessions. You may choose to answer the
questions one at a time or write in paragraphs.
Which aspect of today’s session did I find most interesting? Why?
In today’s session, I believe self-leadership play vital role when it comes to career progress.
Most interesting part of this session was understanding impact on leadership in achieving
goals that we set, I am now confident to achieve personal which I have set with the help of
self leadership. From this session, I have learnt about improving myself with the help of self
leadership that allow me to become stable. I have gained enough knowledge during this
session and explore leadership area to become stable in career process. I am looking for to
craft leadership skills that will help me to achieve my goals.
One thing I learnt
From this session, I have learned about self-leadership and self-determination that help me
to become stable and focus on my career goal. During this session, I have learned different
skills and ability of a leader, but I have focused on four pillar of self leadership, these are:
Purposefulness: Self leadership allow me to become purposeful towards my goals, I have
learned meaning and importance of self leadership.
Mindfulness: Self leadership help me to become mindful and thought processing, I Have
learned about importance of having mindful thinking to become stable.
Reflection: Self leadership allow leader to become stable, I have learned that reflection
allow person to sharpen their skills.
Practice: Self leadership require practice; I have learnt that practice will going to help me to
become stable.
I’m not sure about...
From this session, I am not sure about concept of self leadership because at some point I
lack behind and fail to understand. I am not clear that I have completely understood what
self-leadership and what is difference between self-leadership and leadership. I missed
important point of self leadership for example; I have fail to determine what skills I need
during self-leadership practice.
I might have learnt more if ....
During this session, I might have learnt more if I paid attention to important part of session
for example when tutor was explaining about skills needed in performing self-leadership. I
still lack behind understanding importance of self-leadership in career progress and there is
certain question to ask myself for example; is self-leadership really helpful in career
development process.

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Things I want to do now...
During this session, I have learnt self-leadership and its importance in career development
process, there are certain things which I need to consider from now. I am planning to learn
new skills, looking forward to become stable, I am ready to practice self-leadership and
explore different area of development.

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3. Personal Development Plan
Think about the results of the questionnaire you did and the information from today’s
lesson. What have you learnt about yourself and your skills? Are you satisfied with your
results? Is this an area that could be improved? If so, consider making this topic one of your
Development Episodes.
Complete the PDP below by answering the questions fully with specific details. Remember
that it is normal for your ideas and PDP to change as the course continues and your
priorities alter.
STEP 1: Identify Your Development Needs
A. Why are you seeking development at this time?
Development is continuous process; I am seeking development because I want to become stable in my
career process. I have been analysing my development from previous practice but I still want to learn
new skills, I believe I still lack behind in some important skills and ability which will going to impact
my career process. I will seek development further because I want to explore self-leadership.
B. What are you seeking to develop at this time?
I am seeking to develop new skills and ability and planning to gain as much knowledge as
possible. At this time, I need to become stable in career process, I believe I should quickly
learn new skills as this will not only going to help me to become stable but this allow me to
gain long term growth.
C. Emphasis: What do you need? What is your specific goal?
My specific goal is to become effective leader, I am focusing on big five theory where need
to craft different strategies to achieve my goals.
STEP 2: Identify Your Development Options
D. What steps could you take to develop the new knowledge, skills and behaviours?
E.g. read more about the topic? Watch some videos about the topic? Practise the skill

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every day for 30 minutes? Organise the way you learn?
Think about your own learning preferences and adapt the task to suit.
When it comes to steps that learner need to consider to gain knowledge and develop new
skills, I will be using big five personality theory to become an effective leader. I will be
considered in depth research on self-leadership and review other source to understand what
skills are required in self-leadership process. To achieve skills of leadership, I need to craft
different strategies that allow me to learn new skills.
E. Considerations arising from ‘why’, ‘what’ and ‘how’
Speed: How quickly do you need to develop the knowledge, skills or behaviours identified?
To develop self-leadership skills, I need to consider three important elements, these are:
why: I need to develop self-leadership skills to become stable in career development process.
What: to develop self-leadership skills I need certain resource including books, journal, videos of
successful leader and other equipment.
How: from how prospect, I need to craft different strategies that allow me to develop self-
leadership.
F: Identify Your Development Options
Through E learning: I will be considering E learning as development option that will allow me
to explore different develop material including videos, motivation from leaders and magazine
to manage self-leadership. I will be using this development option as this will help me to gain
knowledge in internet and develop ICT skills as well. There are certain other development
option which I will be considering while developing self-leadership skills.

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STEP 3: Plan for Development Activities
G. Write down the steps you will take to accomplish your task.
Step 1: overview of concept of self-leadership and its importance in personal as well as
career development.
Step 2: identifying own strength and weakness and linking it with task so that it can easily be
achieved.
Step 3: crafting effective strategies to accomplish this task and implementing these
strategies to get clarity on further process.
Step 4: setting KPI to measure my performance in achieving this task, I will be monitoring
my progress with different monitoring techniques including feedback from tutor.
What could go wrong with your plan?
Nothing can go with my plan because I have identified every possible element that can turn
into barrier and planned a solution in advance. My plan is simple and clear that allow me to
become effective leader but still there are many barriers that might occur in the process for
example due to lack of knowledge I am fail to achieve this plan successfully.
What will you do if your original plan does not work well?
I will develop plan B along with original plan, I have been focusing on original plan but still it
turns to be failure then I will consider self-development which is more easy as compared to
developing self-leadership.
Think of an alternative way to achieve your goal.
self-development plan will be my alternative way to achieve my goals, if I fail to achieve self-
leadership then I will be focusing on self-development that will allow me to gain as much
knowledge as possible.
STEP 4: Undertake Development Activities
H. List your development activities completed throughout the semester
Continuing education: while continuing education, I will be gaining knowledge in self
leadership and will become stable in career process.
Researching: researching allows me to become effective, I will be consider reaching to get
enough knowledge to become stable.
STEP 5: Apply new knowledge/ skills/ behaviours in the workplace
How do you intend to use this new knowledge/ skills/ behaviour in the workplace?
In the workplace, self-leadership will be beneficial for me as this allow me to work effectively.
It is very clear that self-leadership allow me to explore different area of development and
help to lead other employee as well, as an employee I will be managing myself with the help
self-leadership. Apart from this I will be consider leadership skills and ability to handle and
manage myself as well as other employee of the workplace.

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STEP 6: Review and Repeat
Reflect on how this new knowledge/ skill / behaviour helped in your professional
development
In professional development, self-leadership will be beneficial. This is one of the most
important skill which I need to develop to become stable in professional development. I
believe self-leadership will help me to grow professionally as self-leader have their skills to
manage their time, efforts and task. I will be developing myself as professional with the help
of self-leadership.