Leadership Journal: Analysis of Leadership Article and Learning

This journal entry reflects on an analysis of articles related to leadership, focusing on the skills, abilities, and competencies required for effective leadership. The student discusses the importance of hard work, practice, and the influence of time and context in shaping leadership mindsets. The entry highlights key leadership attributes such as understanding, maturity, confidence, and experience. The student also details how they applied succession planning and management approaches to identify and assess potential leaders. Furthermore, the journal entry outlines the importance of planning and systematizing activities to enhance leadership skills and includes a plan for future learning through setting routines, evaluating performance, and creating action plans.

Running head- SOCIOLOGY
Journal entry through article analysis
Name of the student
Name of the university
Author note

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i. What did you learn?
Reviewing the article on “How are You Set for Your Next Batch of Leaders?” and
“Executive Literary: Stay Curious, Think Well, Advance Good” in the vocational training
course, I have learnt that hard efforts and practice is needed for achieving the leadership
skills, abilities and competencies. Time and the surrounding constraints play an important
role in shaping the mindset needed for attaining the leadership skills. I have also learnt that
the important attributes of good leadership timing are understanding, maturity, confidence,
decisiveness, experience, intuition and preparation.
ii. How did you discover that?
I applied minimal succession approach, which helped me to identify the
replacements within the managerial levels. Along with this, I also made practical application
of succession planning, which seemed beneficial in detecting the intentional developments
from the successors. Most importantly, I can make mention of succession management,
which seemed to be a wise step for me in terms of assessing the preparation of the leaders.
This management acted assistance in terms of assessing the feasibility of the positions.
iii. Why is that important?
I feel that planning is necessary in terms of systematizing the activities for enhancing
the leadership skills, abilities and competencies. This planning helps in tackling the ups and
downs of the life, enhancing the awareness about the ad-hoc experience of the jobs. Focusing
on the forecasting method instead of the development issues assisted me to estimate the
requirements for polishing the current leadership skills, competencies and abilities. I feel that
management of the constructed plans is necessary in terms of assessing the feasibility of the
goals.

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iv. Future scope of the learning
I would set routines for me, setting time limits for each of the tasks. While performing
the tasks, making practical application of the learnt skills would be my primary duty. At each
step, I would evaluate my performance, which would help me to detect the drawbacks, which
acts as an obstacle in fulfilling the identified and specified goals. Creating action plans would
be fruitful in terms of organizing the activities according to the priorities and requirements.

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References
Chen, M. W., & Rybak, C. (2017). Group leadership skills: Interpersonal process in group
counseling and therapy. SAGE Publications.
Indwes.edu (2019). The Devoe Report. Available at
https://www.indwes.edu/academics/caps/devoe-school-of-business/the-devoe-report/
archive/devoe-report-fall-2017.pdf (Accessed on 14th March 2019)
Jaffe, A. (2017). Differentiated eliteness: socialization for academic leadership. Social
Semiotics, 27(3), 370-381.