Digital Storyboard Reflection Paper

Introduction

I hold the vision that leadership is the ability to use my head and heart to succeed in today’s society (Daft,2015, p136), whether you have a title or not, the core is that I should have or at least trained to have basic mental and emotional qualities .The purpose of this paper is to create a digital storyboard to demonstrate the journey I will take to strengthen emotional qualities and reach my goals which is to improve the ability of self-management and be motivating and inspiring. First Goal My first goal is to improve self-management in emotional intelligence as the self-assessment in class honestly indicates that the I lack the ability to control disruptive or harmful emotions and desires while Daft

First of all, I will find three mentors to guide me and gain valuable insights about skills, methods and experience of self-control (Parent, 2015.para10). These three mentors include teacher from RRU, a professional person with rich working experience and a friend so I can discuss theoretical knowledge with the teacher, learning practical experience from the professionals, and exchange learning experiences with my friend. I will observe how these people normally handles emotions and stress, and record key findings as reference. The second and the longest step is self-improvement which requires repetitive exercises, assessment, corrections and feedback. I will make two emotion control boxes which is the deposit box and withdraw box. Every time I feel stressed and out-of-control, I put a dollar with a sticky note writing time, person and reasons for incidents in the deposit box. If I analyze my activities afterwards and take immediate remedy measures to eliminate the negative moods or behaviors and received positive feedback from friends or person involved in that incidents, I can take out the dollar and put it in the withdraw box. If I successfully handled stress and challenges, I will put a dollar with a sticky note writing skills, insights and methods in the withdraw box. At the end of every month, I will compare the dollars in these two boxes to summarize what have learned and happened this month relating to

I clearly understand what inspires me to pursue leadership and the factors includes both internal and external. After that, I will practice the technical during teamwork to motivate others to work as a team. According to Daft, it is the leader’s responsibility to discover people’s needs and motivate correspondingly. I will talk with each member in our team to design the reward system or methods to mobilize team members during team project. I will apply the Acquired Needs Theory (p234) and write thank you card to those who accomplish complex tasks to fulfil the need for achievement. I will organize team activities, pay attention to personal life to strengthen interpersonal relationships to fulfill need for affiliation. I will listen and welcome new ideas as well as allow members to participate in strategic decision makings to meet the need for power. Lastly, I will provide immediate feedback and personal support and supervision on poor performance as it is more effective than money