Leadership Diary: Personal Leadership Development and Evaluation

This leadership diary assignment requires a deep dive into personal leadership development over a period of 21 days. The student is tasked with exploring various aspects of leadership through self-reflection, self-assessment, and interaction with peers. Activities include reviewing leadership concep...Read More

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Day 1
- Read part one and two of the book ‘Leadership: Theory, application, & skill
development’ by R.N. Lussier, and C.F. Achua to understand the general concept of
leadership.
Day 2
- Watch “Locus of Control Video’ by R. Wengrzyn and take notes.
Day 3
- Test myself on ‘Transformational leadership’ as well as complete the “Authentic
Leadership Assessment Questionnaire” created by Walumbwa and Associates.
Day 4
- Reflect on my former year’s life story and experiences and see how it impacts my
behaviors, emotional wellbeing, and leadership.
Day 5
- Self-assessment test developed by iNLP Center to evaluate the components of self-
awareness and moral perspectives
Day 6
- Talk to my peers to study my emotional intelligence through making observations on me
Day 7
- Reflect on the activities done during the week and take notes on the strengths,
weaknesses and areas that need improvements.
Day 8
- Identify my key strengths such as discipline, creativity, and commitments that keep me
on track and flaws e.g. being too critical of myself but I ensure to include a detail-
oriented person in my team to emphasize the positive.

Day 9
- Watch ‘The happy secret to better work’ by S. Achor to allow me to make bigger changes
in my personal and career life
Day 10
- Create realistic career goals including being identified as an expert at my job to focus on
the aspect of motivation in my profession.
Day 11
- Focus on my limitations i.e. being too critical and seeking to please others and engage my
peers to offer compliments.
Day 12
- Use an ‘Emotional intelligence’ tool to study my colleagues’ emotive behaviors.
Day 13
- Perform personal analysis and involve my peers to give me their opinions.
Day 14
- Reflect on the activities done during the week and take notes of any major strengths,
weaknesses, and areas that need improvements.
Day 15
- Write down key plans and priorities to improve my self-awareness
Day 16
- Take yoga session from my busy schedule
Day 17
- Dig deep into my past experiences to gain insight and how it influences my leadership
roles.
Day 18

- List down the values, philosophies, and moral boundaries such as maintaining a positive
attitude that nurture my journey to authentic leadership
Day 19
- Celebrate on major milestones achieved
Day 20
- Take a self-assessment test developed by Don Clark on authentic leadership
Day 21
- Reflect on the outcomes from the activities done in last three weeks and take notes on
major changes.