OSU's leadership class has offered me a lot of tools that could be applied in reality to make me a better leader. One of the first things we did as a class that gave me a sense of where I was at from a leadership perspective was the StrengthsQuest assessment. We performed a lot of helpful assessments as a class which all helped to understand where you are at, but understanding one's strengths and weaknesses is particularly useful in developing a personal leadership philosophy that is tailored to your own specific strengths. I didn't think the actually quiz was super accurate, but it gives you a good baseline and sets the stage for you to question yourself and self meditate about what you really think you are a good at vs. what needs improvement. I can see myself at future situations in jobs sports thinking back to this when determining a good method to best reach my peers. This assessment really set the stage for a lot of the following lectures and assignments.
Directly following this assessment as something I thought was beneficial would be the leadership philosophy assignment. It was useful taking all the tools, (leadership strategies from class, the aforementioned assessment) and combining them with my own personal experiences to form a leadership philosophy to carry forward. It was the one assignment that I felt really bolied down all that we learned into a way that could directly funnel into my own world view for the future.
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