In the course, you have Journal assignments. As you will find, learning about leadership is one thing, but experiencing leadership is another. If you can practically apply what you are learning, you will have a vastly different learning experience.
Thus, I have a list of specific actions you can experiment with during the course. I will also allow an action NOT on this list as long as you get approval for the experiment ahead of time.
Here are some things you can try:
1. Listen to someone without pre-planning what you will say. Stephen Covey’s Seven Habits of Highly Effective People has a great chapter about this.
2. Do not interrupt someone when talking to them. This is also a take-off on the listen to fully understand in action 1.
3. Find a situation where you give praise. And do not just give praise to the person, go out of your way (just like you would if complaining about a person) to go to the boss or someone that needs to hear about the good service.
4. Find a situation where you give constructive feedback to someone.
5. Change up things in your routine. If you sit in the same spot in a meeting, change it up. If you park in the same spot, change it up. If you drive somewhere the same way, change it up. What does this teach you about change management and our assumptions about the change process?
6. Practice delegating tasks or projects to someone else – this can be done with family members, colleagues, peers, etc.
7. Coach someone on a technique, a process, a task, a software program, a game – the options are endless here
8. Practice networking. Do research on best practices and then make a plan and start executing that plan
These are some of the things you can experiment with – and if you are inspired to experiment with something from the book, just get approval ahead of time describing what you want to do and how it relates to the class material.
You are also welcomed to repeat actions on this list, in different situations. Not all situations require the same tools and approaches, so it is time to figure out what works and what does not work.
All of the activities need to tie back to your readings or research on leadership. Translation: Your book should be referenced. Reading theory on leadership is not the reality of leadership, so please do work to tie these experiences to leadership and your understanding of leadership.
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