This week you continue your journal activity, this time on the Module 1 materials that were assigned for this week. Writing in the journal should be drawn from the chapter readings, exercises, discussion boards, and assignments. As journals are a personal construction, your journal entries should reflect what you have learned that you feel was important to your growth as a manager. You can relate this to personal experience and/or to your expectations of what it will be like to manage a department.
This is a graded activity and you will receive the grade just for recording in your journal provided I can see that you have treated the activity seriously. Journals are not right or wrong but simply a reflection of you beliefs based on learning and experience.
When journaling this week think about these and other ideas from you readings and assignments this week:
-Continue to analyze you abilities as a team leader and participant
-What is your reaction to conflict? Have you come to expect it as what comes along with the manager's responsibility? Were you ever able to use it constructively as a "teaching moment"?
-What does the Johari WIndow tell you about yourself? Your manager?
-Are you an empathatic, reflective listener?
-Do you give positive feedback whenever you can and avoid negative feedback?
-Are you involved in team decision making?