In the course, you have Journal assignments. As you will find, learning about leadership is one thing, but experiencing leadership is another. If you can practically apply what you are learning, you will have a vastly different learning experience.

 Create a table with 2 columns, one for the items listed below and the other will be your response to the billet points. Here are some things you can try:

1. Listen to someone without pre-planning what you will say. Stephen Covey’s Seven Habits of Highly Effective People has a great chapter about this. 

2. Do not interrupt someone when talking to them. This is also a take-off on the listen to fully understand in action 1. 

3. Find a situation where you give praise. And do not just give praise to the person, go out of your way (just like you would if complaining about a person) to go to the boss or someone that needs to hear about the good service. 

4. Find a situation where you give constructive feedback to someone. 

5. Change up things in your routine. If you sit in the same spot in a meeting, change it up. If you park in the same spot, change it up. If you drive somewhere the same way, change it up. What does this teach you about change management and our assumptions about the change process?

6. Practice delegating tasks or projects to someone else – this can be done with family members, colleagues, peers, etc.

7. Coach someone on a technique, a process, a task, a software program, a game – the options are endless here

8. Practice networking. Do research on best practices and then make a plan and start executing that plan