15.318  Discovering Your Leadership Signature (H1)

Dear everyone,

Grades for 15.318 have been submitted and should show up online shortly. We will put your graded leadership book assignments (which contain comments and feedback) and any graded reflection papers that you have not yet gotten back in your Sloan folders early next week. If you want to know your grades on these assignments before next week you can email me.

The people who got the best grades on the leadership books integrated their stories and examples with the theories and frameworks from the class, thought deeply about the frameworks and applied them in a creative way, provided data and examples to support their self-assessment, and did all of this in a way that was visually creative.

We wish you all the best in your next steps and we hope this class was useful and supportive in your leadership journey.

Deborah & Kate

As a reminder, we are pushing back the due date for your final leadership book assignments. They are now due on or before April 1 by 5 PM in hard copy (please do not email them). They can be dropped off at the desk of Deborah's assistant, Colette Boudreau, at E62-471.

Your final reflection papers are due this coming Friday, March 22. If you are on campus, please drop them off with Colette (in the box marked "15.318 DLS Deborah Ancona"), or if you will be out of town, please post them on Stellar--there is a link up now.

If you are planning to submit a video for one of your assignments, please put it on Dropbox and send us the link to it.

We hope everyone found the class to be stimulating and worthwhile. Have a great Spring Break.

Best,

Kate & Deborah

Dear everyone,

I just posted class slides from last Friday on Stellar. There were no slides for the Friday before that, March 1, because of our visitor.

For our last class this Friday, March 15, we will cover material from the last two sessions: Best Reflected Self and the Story of Future Self/Story of Now. Please bring the data you have collected for the Best Reflected Self exercise, and come prepared with a Story of Now to talk about in class (see the Ganz reading).

For anyone who has missed a class: Because we only have 5 sessions, we are asking those of you who have missed a class to write an extra reflection paper. This is in your best interest to complete because your participation grade will otherwise take a bit hit. You can write this reflection paper on any of the sessions you want--it doesn't have to be for the one you missed. If you have any questions about this please email me.

We are looking forward to seeing everyone this Friday for our last class.

Kate & Deborah

Hi everyone,

The readings for this week (listed in the syllabus under March 1) mention a case that was handed out in class the week before. Don't worry; you didn't miss anything. We didn't hand a case out. We will be giving you a different, shorter case to read in class this week instead.

For your reflection paper assignments, there have been a few questions about length. Papers should be 2-3 pages double spaced with a maximum length of 5 pages if you really get on a roll.

For the final leadership book assignment, the criteria for grading are the same as for the reflection papers, with the additional criterion that you should do something artistically creative for your books.

• Did you do the assignment? Did you use the course readings and the concepts to analyze yourself)? (Hint: don't write a personal diary--use the readings to reflect on yourself.)
  
• Did you put effort into grappling with the material? Did you really engage with the concepts and think about them?
• Did you demonstrate that you understand the concepts, for instance using your own words and using examples that illustrate your grasp of the material? (Hint: don't just summarize the readings--we already know what they say. Show us you really get what they are about. Think American Idol: don't do karyoke; give us your interpretation and do it with style.)
  
• Did you apply the concepts to yourself in a creative and thoughtful way?
• Did you analyze yourself by using your stories and examples to illustrate your conceptual points? Did you explain your reasoning for your statements?
• What was the quality of the writing and the structure of the paper? Did you weave together your conceptual analysis and your stories? (The people who write the best papers use their stories to highlight the points they are trying to make from the readings in a seamless way.) Did the writing flow well? Was it grammatical with correct spelling? Was the paper well-organized, and were your paragraphs designed to make clear points?

Hi everyone,

1) If you were in class on Friday you are eligible to take the course. If you are receiving this email and you were not there on Friday, the class is now full.

2) Class lecture slides are now posted on Stellar. Slides will be posted by Monday each week.

3) For the two reflection papers that you will write for this course, please bring a hard copy to class the following week. You can write reflection papers for any two classes that you wish. Details are in the syllabus. Please do not email papers to me. Here are the criteria we use for grading:

• Did you do the assignment? Did you use the week's readings and the concepts to analyze yourself)? (Hint: don't write a personal diary--use the readings to reflect on yourself.)
  
• Did you put effort into grappling with the material? Did you really engage with the concepts and think about them?
• Did you demonstrate that you understand the concepts, for instance using your own words and using examples that illustrate your grasp of the material? (Hint: don't just summarize the readings--we already know what they say. Show us you really get what they are about. Think American Idol: don't do karyoke; give us your interpretation and do it with style.)
  
• Did you apply the concepts to yourself in a creative and thoughtful way?
• Did you analyze yourself by using your stories and examples to illustrate your conceptual points? Did you explain your reasoning for your statements?
• What was the quality of the writing and the structure of the paper? Did you weave together your conceptual analysis and your stories? (The people who write the best papers use their stories to highlight the points they are trying to make from the readings in a seamless way.) Did the writing flow well? Was it grammatical with correct spelling? Was the paper well-organized, and were your paragraphs designed to make clear points?

4) If you did not receive a copy of the "Best Reflected Self Exercise" that was handed out in class, send me an email and I will arrange to get one to you. It is not available through study.net. You need this in order to start collecting data you'll need for the last class on March 15.

We look forward to seeing you this week. Enjoy the snow today.

Best,

Kate and Deborah