Final Reflection
For the courses final assignment, you should review the personal lessons learned from the course readings, assignments, activities,
and discussions. Conclude your reflection with a thorough and clear, understanding of leadership and your leadership style. This
assignment is the final ‘bookend’ to the course as you engage in a critical self-reflective look at what you will take from this course and
integrate into your “toolbox” as a future manager/leader/business professional. Provide a reflection on your own leadership journey
utilizing what you learned from this class as well as your own personal leadership philosophy.
Reflection is a process of examining and interpreting experience to gain new understanding. The most useful reflection involves
the conscious consideration and analysis of beliefs and actions for the purpose of learning. It is about questioning, in a positive
way, what you do and why you do it and then deciding whether there is a better, or more efficient, way of doing it in the future.
The reflective “journaling” for this course is intended to be a space to make connections, your connections among the various
complementary elements of the course. The object of the journal is not to think like me or to think like everyone else but to develop
your own reflection.
The point is not to become a leader. The point is to become yourself, and to use yourself completely–all your gifts, skills
and energies–to make your vision manifest. You must withhold nothing. You must, in sum, become the person you started
out to be, and to enjoy the process of becoming. (Warren Bennis, On Becoming a Leader).
The Ignatian Pedagogy Model is used for this final reflection. This reflective model includes the following components:
context, experience, reflection, action, and evaluation:
Introduction write an introduction paragraph
Section 1: CONTEXT (at least one page)
Describe the organizational/professional context of your leadership journey. Include a discussion of how your interests,
skills, socioeconomic, political, ethnic/cultural, organizational, and educational realities may impact your leadership
journey. Incorporate leadership assessments as part of your response.
Section 2: EXPERIENCE (at least one page)
Describe your feelings and thoughts after the experience of completing this course:
o What has surprised or disappointed you?
o Which has been the leadership theory/approach/ topic(s) which has most resonated with you? Explain.
o Which has been the leadership theory/approach/ topic(s) which has least resonated with you? Explain.
Section 3: REFLECTION (at least one page)
Reflect on what the topic of leadership means to you personally, socially, and professionally?
How does your understanding of leadership impact your community (ie. family, work, school, church, and neighborhood)?
Section 4: ACTION (at least one page)
What actions will you take as a result of what you have learned? Discuss at least two specific actions.
How may you take an active role in changing your climate of your organization or discipline?
What innovative solutions might you propose within your organization or profession? What barriers might you face? How
will you overcome them?
Section 5: EVALUATION (at least one page)
Refer back to your J1-Leadership Story Journal submitted at the beginning of the course.
Evaluate how your views have evolved or been reinforced since your J1- Leadership Story Journal. Include whether the
outcomes of this class met the expectations you outlined in J1 as part of your response.
What is your leadership philosophy? Evaluate this compared to your J1- Leadership Story Journal.
Reflect on what you have learned from this course. How has the material presented increased your sense of awareness,
biases and attitudes?
Conclusion write a conclusion paragraph
Paper Quality:
Grammar, spelling and syntax must be edited
Page length should be 5-8 single-spaced pages (Papers which do not reach 5 full pages will not receive credit)
References are not required but if used must be properly cited
Single-spaced and 12 point times new roman font; 1 margins
**Paper must use the template in Canvas.
DUE: submit a 5-8 page paper. Only papers submitted to Final Reflection (J-Final) in Canvas will be accepted. Late
submissions will not receive full credit. First person is appropriate for this reflection paper.
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