The final blog - thoughts on Leadership as a course

One thing I have learnt from the activities and discussions in the leadership class is that emotional balance is a quality I have to cultivate to better my leadership skills!!! This is the key lesson and I am hoping to make amends towards being a better leader.

I have been toying with the idea of a change in career for a while and the personal encoding activity helped me realize a dream that can come true if I wanted. I did extremely well in the activity and this showed that I do enjoy emoting and communicating and being in a different person's shoes. I am a professional dancer but this has taken a back seat due to my engineering career. However if a change of industry was an idea to consider then I realized that dance and dramatics is something I am interested in and might excel at with adequate effort. This is a revelation and a help towards a dream that is yet to be realized.

I positively feel that the reader our group chose was the best applicable to my leadership goals especially towards maintaining a more balanced emotional exterior. I have to use the stop sign rule for a more peaceful existence in both personal and professional life. Given the fact that my personal life is going through major changes, I need to be constantly using the stop sign rule else I might ruin my relationship with my family members.

Finally I must say that my feedback from the external questionnaire continues to pleasantly surprise me because I realized that others have a better perception of my skills. It has been a confidence booster and will continue to help me grow.