At the end of this academic year I envision myself being a step closer to completing my B.A. and more aware of my leadership skills in my workplace. My goal as a student is to continually learn and improve my character through knowledge and theory.
2. Now-focus: What are the results that you are currently getting as a student at the University of Manitoba and in this class? Are you satisfied with the results you are getting? Do you think you are capable of performing better? Please explain.
As a part-time student with a full-time job, I am not able to fully concentrate my efforts into my education. Over the past few terms, I have taken a few classes and learned new and important things that have not been reflected in my grades. My term work,
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Having the same calendar in the places where I spend most of my time helps be aware of the tasks that I need to complete. Additionally, my phone, computers and work email calendars are all synced together to help me track all my dates. As events are scheduled in my life, either professionally or socially, dates are added to all locations. I intentionally add times during the week dedicated to reading and studying for school so that I am able to complete assignments and deadlines on time - the best I …show more content…
The balance of work and school is a constant struggle and leaves little room for rest. I constantly refocus my mind to concentrate on the tasks on hand and to become present in the environment I need to be in at that time. A skill that I have adopted is planning and scheduling; my skills at work have set me up to plan my studying schedule in hour-long blocks of time. Also visualizing my work calendar is now something I do for my study calendar. As a result of both traits I believe I have adopted an authentic leadership style approach to my studies. I maintain self-discipline by consistently making the effort to check my calendar, add dates, follow the plan I have created.
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1. What specific concepts that you learned from either, traits, skills, behavior, Situational Leadership, Adaptive Leadership Theory and/or Path-Goal Theory of Leadership will aid you in improving, enhancing, or changing your approach to being the best student that you can