Leadership 11  Course Goals

My Learning Objectives are:

1) Be able to deal with problems when they arise, and set a positive tone when dealing with stress and tough challenges.

This is critical goal for me, as if I had to pick one goal to focus on, this would be it. I believe that learning to manage stress and address difficult problems would highly benefit me in other areas such as my efficiency and time management. Learning to overcome stress, and tackling tough situations would allow me to stay on track with my goals, and prevent de-motivation if things get too overwhelming.

2) Cultivate a team mindset,

While i would like to improve my own weaknesses and grow as an individual, I’ve began to recognize the importance of a proper mindset in a collaborative environment. Working together allows us to utilize our unique strengths and putting them together allows us to complete complex tasks efficiently. I aim avoid fostering an individual based mindset that doesn’t contribute to the success of the team, or undermines others success. Instead, I aim to deeply consider and listen to others’ ideas during projects and tasks, and understand the appropriate scenarios where I can step up as a leader.

3) To Participate in a variety of events and meetings, to gain the experience of running and organizing events.

Participating in various events and meetings is significant for me, as it will provide opportunities for me to develop my quick-thinking abilities, and communication skills when dealing with in-person events. I believe these experiences would allow me to successfully help run academic or non-academic related events in the future.

Application Of Knowledge

I want to be able to truly appreciate and apply what I learn from the program in a practical manner, by manage my time and learning new skills sets at every event. This would put me in scenarios where I can learn to communicate on the spot, and complete tasks efficiently. By facing difficult tasks, I hope to be able to manage stress on-the-go and learn how to find mental clarity in sticky-situations. I believe these skills will one day allow me to go into a future career path in sciences, where I would constantly be completing a dense workload, while presenting and communicating ideas to tackle relevant & changing real-world problems. In the end, I would love to be able to comfortably surround myself with like-minded individuals whom I can and effectively communicate authentic thoughts and ideas, to foster growth for relevant problems.

Personal Growth

My end goal is to become a stronger listener, and communicator. I want to be able to understand the true emotion and meaning that comes from others’ ideas and be able to express my thoughts by replying in a concise and professional manner. By doing this, I hope to have the knowledge and skills to be to help contribute to solutions for real world problems. These skills would also allow me to be overall more approachable, and skillful even in non-workplace environments. Developing a strong sense of wit is definitely something Id like to apply throughout anything I do, and I aim to gain it through participating in leadership 11.

Challenges and Strategies

Some possible challenges that I might face with achieving my goals would be heavy academic workloads, exams, and personal responsibilities or challenges outside of school.

I would deal with these problems, by scheduling my events and tasks in advance, and communicate test dates with my teachers. That way I definitely would be able to make more strategic decisions on what dates I choose to help out on, and what roles I pick. And as for any other problem that may be more out of my control, I would try to be in constant communication with the leadership coordinators and my peers in case of any unforeseen issues that interrupt my schedule. Furthermore, I intend to try my best not to burnout, and take the time to reflect on my progress rather than constantly just cramming more things into my schedule. I believe this approach will benefit me by providing long-term success and will allow me to continue to do my best in leadership 11.