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 concepts, watching related videos, taking self-assessment tests, and reflecting on past experiences to identify strengths and weaknesses. The assignment focuses on emotional intelligence, authentic leadership, career goal setting, and implementing strategies for improvement. The student is encouraged to integrate positive attitudes, identify areas for improvement, and incorporate feedback from peers to develop a comprehensive understanding of their leadership capabilities and potential.

Online Blog Diary
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.