Learning and Reflection Journal

This learning and reflection journal details the student's understanding of week 6's leadership module, which focuses on the concept of followership. The student reflects on key learning points, including managing hierarchical relationships, encouraging team followership, and the importance of a leader being an effective follower. The journal includes the student's self-assessment of their leadership self-insight questions, their thoughts on improving their leadership performance, and their plans for applying the learned concepts to practical situations. The student highlights the importance of understanding personal sources of power (skills, effort, persuasion) to effectively manage and influence others. The journal concludes with the student's reflections on the challenges of 'managing up' and their intention to apply the learned concepts in a college teamwork setting.

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Learning and Reflection Journal
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Name: Date:
Week: 6
The major concepts and points covered in this week were:
Week 6 covers the followership concept of leadership. It teaches us the ways to become
an effective follower along with a leader by managing both up and down hierarchy and
developing effective follower for themselves (Erlinghagen & Symanski, 2014).
The key areas of learning for me are:
The key areas to learn in this module are the ways to manage the hierarchy relationship
and to encourage the teammates to follow you. It also helps to learn about the ways in which a
leader can also become an effective follower.
My thoughts on how these concepts and learning points can improve a leader’s
performance are:
The learning outcomes of learning from this task that is the way a leader can become an
effective leader proves too beneficial by a leader (Berson, et al., 2015). This is because only by
being a good follower a leader can encourage its teammates to follow him.

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My thoughts and feelings on the leadership self-insight questions and my score this week
are:
I think that being a follower is important because only by being a follower first a leader
can make others follow him. This makes this learning week very important and critical. My score
this week is good.
From this week’s study I need to follow up on these leadership concepts and areas to
improve gasp of the subject:
I need to follow up on learning about personal sources such as skills, effort and
persuasion in order to learn about power of managing. This will help me to encourage my fellow
mates to follow me as a leader.
My other thoughts, feelings and comments are:
I feel that managing up is not an easy task as it seems to look like. This is because it
requires a lot of dedication and luck to encourage the teammates to follow me when I become a
leader.
I can apply this learning to my development and practice to be a leader by:
I can apply this learning outcome by first following the tips given in the study materials
in a small teamwork in my college and test my skills for further development.

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References
Berson, Y., Halevy, N., Shamir, B., & Erez, M. (2015). Leading from different psychological
distances: A construal-level perspective on vision communication, goal setting, and
follower motivation. The Leadership Quarterly, 26(2), 143-155.
Erlinghagen, R., & Symanski, U. (2014). It takes two to tango.