After taking the Chapter 27 Leadership Litmus test I was a bit concerned. I scored a 79 which indicated major change required. At first I was anxious, thinking to myself, 'well that's just great according to this stupid book it'll take a lot of change to make me a good leader.' But then I thought to myself 'you know that's not so bad.' After my initial reaction I stepped back and realized that it's a good thing to need to change. It's a positive thing to develop, learn and improve myself, otherwise why would I be in this minor? And besides, when I stop and think about it, is it ever a good thing to feel like you're perfect and don't need or have any room for improvement? I think not. I look forward to learning new things about leadership and experiencing some change. I went on to the second test in Chapter 28, and found that I only marked the number 3 twice but otherwise selected numbers 4 and 5 for all the other questions. At the end of the sample I found that the most effective team leader tended to respond as a 4 or 5 to most of the questions. Some tension was relieved yet I found that I started critiquing myself and I anticipate discovering more insight into my own personality as well as others' in the class.
Secondly, I learned a lot about teamwork when making the alien video. First of all I thought it was hilarious, some of the ideas we came up with. Everyone had very good ideas of different things that should be added to the video and each person brought a different aspect to the team. Some of us shot the video, while others were in the video. We all came up with creative ideas and had different computer skills, and equipment to provide. We all were pretty diligent about time management and met the deadline just in time. We had one slight problem when Katrina's keys got locked in her apartment, but we didn't panic, we just came up with ways to adjust. Luckily, shortly after the episode a maintenance man walked buy and came to the rescue.
Overall the first day was fun and a success. I look forward for what's next!
Monday, January 28, 2008
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