Course Reflections
Leadership Founds in Research
Leadership
course in general helps students develop the skills, knowledge, and
competencies that make effective leaders who stand out. The course is designed
not only to prepare the students for today’s most challenging leadership
roles, graduates, but also to position us as valued decision-makers of
tomorrow. According to Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, great leaders, who
are systematically developed, promote high-performing teams that
consistently outperform the competition.
The greatest value
added from the class taken was my self-preparation as a student. I
feel the course prepared me for the next steps in my academic life and my
career, from the knowledge to applicability. Academically, I feel ready to
keep moving on, and professionally I recognize opportunities.
The strength of my studies was the
subjective but valuable learnings, as critical thinking, leadership as a
system, traits of good leaders and the discovery of self-leadership. I
got in touch with presentation and survey tools, writing standards, different
channels of publication, apart from all new theoretical resources available.
Aside from that, critical thinking was the most valuable learning throughout
the course, something I never imagined myself going through.
I know there are
whole to be filled and points to be learnt. For an instance,
I would like to learn more about standard formats and
get corrected at any mistake made. I would like to feel more in a
classroom, in touch directly and constantly with the professor, and get
specific feedback about my works. Time management is something I would love to
improve, but this is my developing point. From the University point of
view, the weekly deadlines are great to keep an online course active and well
time managed, however, as mentioned, constant and specific feedback/ comments about my
works, and clear formats of the way the tasks must be submitted would be an
additional support from University/ Instructor I would like to have.
I have my part on the gap, while I could approach to clarify my doubts, but
having that information in advance would be great.
These developing
aspects involve more than one part, including mine, so taking that as a
step stone, something I could have done and I plan to do in the future courses,
is to take initiative to keep in touch with the professor, asking
questions before submitting or publishing my works, doing my works ahead of
time, and leave for the submitting deadline only for adjustments and
corrections to be done.
The topics covered in the
course were extremely relevant and will definitely impact positively in my
career, as they already did. Undoubtedly, they will easily influence on
what I expect in future courses.
The greatest point of a
self-evaluation, and something I learnt throughout the course, is intellectual
humility. Going through aspects we could improve and recognize our
weakness, is one of the most valuable tools for self-development.
“As a human being one has been endowed with
just enough intelligence to be able to see clearly how utterly inadequate that
intelligence is when confronted with what exists. If such humility could be
conveyed to everybody, the world of human activities would be more appealing”.
(Albert Einstein)
