15 Aug the 21 irrefutable laws of leadership reflection paper on the first 6 chapters
Reflection is a cognitive process that promotes self-awareness and encourages self-assessment. The cognitive process of reflecting on your authentic knowledge, practice, and beliefs/attitudes is important to developing professionalism in organizational leadership. Reflection allows each of the MDP participants to think critically about their ability to effectively join content knowledge with practice to obtain the behavioral changes necessary for ultimate personal and professional development, with the goal of applying these knowledge, skills and abilities to each of their companies.
Self-reflection provides a means for practitioners to identify issues; state opinion, inferences, and predictions; and express feelings, beliefs, and attitudes. The practitioner’s responsibility in self-reflection is to support personal opinion, inference, and prediction by inclusion of relevant content knowledge presented in each session of each of the three (3) Modules. Ultimately, then we expect that the MDP participants will take and apply these leadership characterizes toward fulfillment of the organizational goals.
General guidelines:
- The Reflection paper must be in writing and turned into both myself and their immediate manager
- There can be one major, or several small topics in a reflection paper;
- They should go over those sources of information that they are going to rely on when writing this reflection essay; new information, reading material, articles, discussions from each session, etc.
- I suggest that they make a draft that will give them an understanding of how many and how long their paragraphs will be, what is going to be the statement, and what facts they are going to use;
- I will suggest that the length be appropriate to each participating own evaluation of what is required so that his/her message is conveyed;
My tips on writing a reflection paper: (This information will be provided to each
MDP participant)
1. When choosing a topic, think about
the information learned and interesting facts that brought them new knowledge
and can be used to effective a positive change in each of their workplaces.
2. Give an introductory paragraph that
tells about the issue or issues you will develop.
3. Develop your idea by dividing it into several important points and, therefore, into several paragraphs.
4. Give solid background information. You can either put it into separate paragraphs, or weave into writing.
5. Use topic sentences.
6. Identify and comment on specific issues addressed in the sessions. Give examples.
7. Answer the five W’s: who, what, when, where, and why.
8. Provide some sense of the importance of this writing for your own development and how it will positively impact the organization.
9. Use good sentence structure, avoid sentence fragments and fused sentences, and choose language which expresses your meaning.
