Leadership development does not follow automatically from leadership training or practical leadership activities but occurs, is internalized, and creates long term change through an individual's reflection on those experiences (White, Guthrie & Torres, 2019; Ash & Clayton, 2009). One can emerge untouched from even the best leadership development programs if not engaging personally with and integrating the principles and perspectives they offer.

Leadership Blog:

• discuss what you see as the most relevant, challenging, or interesting concepts/skills raised during leadership and communications class preparation reading/viewing or in the class itself AND/OR
• relate one or two concepts/skills to your own leadership experiences, explaining what you learned from this exercise AND/OR
• identify new insights gained and/or discuss how you might utilize something you learned to deal with an upcoming leadership opportunity.

GENERAL PROMPTS FOR LEADERSHIP BLOG:

• What concept/theory studied in our most recent class affirmed your impressions of or experiences of leadership - and how?
• Which concept/theory we studied or statement a book/speaker made challenged your previous ideas or experiences of leadership and why?
• How can you apply something we studied to understand a previous leadership experience (your own or others') better or to see how it could have been handled more constructively?
• What concept/theory deepened or broadened your understanding of effective leadership and how can you apply that insight in practice?
• What did you learn about your own current or potential leadership from this class and how will that affect you going forward?

Reference:

Heifetz, R., Grashnow, A., and Linsky, M. (2009). The practice of adaptive leadership. Harvard Business School Publishing. ISBN: 1422105764 Kouzes, J. M. & Posner, B. Z. (2017). The leadership challenge, 6th edition. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass Publishers. ISBN: 1119278961