Welcome back, readers! We’ve reached the end of another course and another week of the Educated Leadership blog.
This week, I’ll lay out my personal vision and some learning plans for fulfilling that goal. The assignment has me writing a letter to myself, so please don’t be confused by the format.
Dear Carl,
Congratulations on completing your class on Resonant Leadership. I am proud of you and know you learned many tools and principles that you will take with you into your personal and professional life.
Your personal vision is admirable. I know you hope to be a very well-rounded, respected, and capable leader. I hope you reach your goal of being at least a Vice-President in your company in the next five years. I hope you also reach your goal of setting up processes that will nurture and grow new leaders in your company that continue the plans you put into place. If you can create a pathway for new leaders to develop and become resonant with their teams, you will have left a legacy of which you can be proud.
To attain that vision, you will need to continue to develop your emotional intelligence and empathic skills. To expand your thinking on empathy, you will need to study the writings of Eckhart Tolle. For action items, you will need to read two books written by him in the next six months. To expand your understanding of emotional intelligence, study Daniel Goleman. As an action step, please read two books by Goleman in the next six months. To tie this together, you will need to continue to contribute to the Diversity and Inclusion (D & I) teams at your company. Please teach at least two classes on D & I in the next six to twelve months. Your wife and the D & I staff at work will help hold you accountable.
As a tool of expanded perception and to increase your ability to reach out to others, becoming fluent in a second language is important. The milestones are to satisfactorily become fluent in basic, intermediate, and advanced Spanish. In the next six months, you are to complete Rosetta Stone Spanish 1 &2. The following six months you will complete levels 3 & 4, followed by levels 5 & 6 in the next six months. Your wife wishes to join you on this journey so you will hold each other accountable.
To round out the vision, you will need to expand your business acumen. The focus areas for you will be finance, supplier management, and the government side of the business. To broaden your understanding, you will conduct informational interviews and a job shadow in each function. You need to have the interviews scheduled to occur within the next six to ten months. Any books you can find on the subjects will be read as supplemental material. Your colleagues and mentors will be who hold you accountable.
The goals you have given yourself are significant. Completing your Master’s degree by January needs to be the primary focus for now. Keep in mind that every journey starts with one step and keep moving forward. You are capable of attaining your goals and more.
Good luck and I can’t wait to see you succeed!
Respectfully,
Carl
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