A personal journal is a useful device for keeping track of ideas and questions, as well as dates and phone numbers. In this course, we strongly recommend you to start a journal with the very first session. In addition, we will ask you to address some critical questions about your role as team member, leader, and manager. Journals can be handwritten or stored electronically. The key is to write and keep writing.

A Note on Journal Assignments: Journal assignments are specific items that each students must work on and log into their journal. This is in addition to other regular entries such as class notes, reflections on classes, work on class assignments, work on the project, and other pertinent material. Journal will be collected and spot read at the end of term, principally for feedback. It is expected that students will regularly use their journal and, in particular, do the assigned exercises. There may be parts of journal assignments that students are asked to turn in to allow feedback from the teaching staff.

First Journal Assignment: Sketching in Your Personal Vision

As a follow-up to the in-class exercise on 2/14/01, describe your own state of creative tension:

a. Your personal vision five years out:

1. What are you doing?
2. What are your strengths as a leader?
3. How is your personal life?

b. Your current reality:

1. What are you now in relation to your vision?
2. What are your weaknesses as a leader?
3. How is your personal life?

c. Managing the tension:

This assignment will help in regard to the self-discovery portion of Assignment #2. Although it is not necessary to complete this assignment prior to completing Assignment #2, it is important to begin thinking along the lines noted above.

EXPECTED LENGTH: 2-3 pages (typed)