1. Name one thing/activity you could do that would make a difference to your management/leadership ratio?
2. How self-responsible are you in your life?
3. To be 20% more self-responsible, what would you have to change?
4. Complete the ‘survey packet’ (handed out at the lecture) and record your reflections on your present levels of engagement and service.

Will need to have a quick refresh through the notes from that lecture which was talking about differences in historical views of leadership to new ideas and theories of what a leader is.

Most importantly it seems that personal leadership is most important…as how can one lead others if one cannot even lead oneself properly.

The ideas of the 3 stages of “Waking up”, “Standing Up”, “Making Choices” and “Self-Responsibility” i think really resonated with me… I feel I have always had a great deal of self awareness and if I want to get something done I put things in motion and do it. Deciding to head back to university after 7 years of doing other things and working was one of these personal leadership moments.

Anyway… class tomorrow I need to get some reading done!  Tom seems to have posted up a personal values questionnaire on the university intranet which looks like it could be something interesting to fill out and see what the tests say I value…

I will attempt to blog post on the above questions over the weekend, hopefully after Iaido training when I am always at my most relaxed and focused… perhaps I will attain some secret enlightenment of Ki Ken Tai no Ichi… then again… I think I need a lifetime of practice before that kicks in.

Long term hopefully i will post alot of interesting case studies and information about what i do for a living, perhaps i might write an ebook or something like that I haven’t decided yet.

For now though the main reason I decided to get this site up and go is that I have just started another paper at the university of Canterbury called “The Principles of Leadership” MGMT208 for those of you course code inclined.

The course so far looks very interesting (all be it that there has only been one lecture so far).  Each week our lecturer, Tom Matthews is proposing a series of developmental questions for which we are all to write in his words our “musings” about the questions.

What better way to keep track of these questions and share a bit of knowledge than to blog my thoughts on each question.  I guess that also gives others a chance to comment or add to the thoughts and conversation around the question and for us all to learn a bit more.

That’s all for now… i will post more ideas as the course progresses and start a new blog entry for each of the development questions hopefully within the next week.

Thanks

Cam