Practicing self-leadership, developing skill for dialogue, listening, communication, accepting responsibility and practice sharing perceptions, learning to differentiate conflict from difficult people and situations, enhancing personal dignity by understanding, setting and appropriately defending boundaries. Leadership must be practiced publicly. Learning to lead requires practice. Included in that practice is communicating mission, leadership, skill, trustworthiness. It influences strategy, instruction, organizational development and political and social interaction.
Practice means making presentations, leading groups, developing workshops, writing grants, teaching.
Internship activities become integral components of formal course work, rather than isolated from the discussion, reflection, correction provided by the classroom setting used to diagnose and prescribe. Can reflect on and plan for becoming a leader that transformations structures . . . The time and structure of the formal classroom setting arenot constraints to learning. Rather, they require knowledge gained from effective practice and action learning to be distilled to essentials. Instructors will desing learning activities for their courses that help participants gain the essential skills needed to achieve course goals.