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Reflecting On Leadership

This document discusses the importance of reflection for leadership development. Reflection involves thinking critically about one's experiences in order to learn and improve. Leaders should reflect on their performance in areas like self-leadership, motivating others, collaboration, creativity, empowerment, and vision. The purpose is to gain a deeper understanding of one's own values, knowledge, and skills. Effective reflection follows a cycle of experiencing an event, deeply reflecting on it, and then acting on the lessons learned. Leaders are encouraged to engage in reflective writing to strengthen their learning and provide evidence of developing capabilities.

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Reflecting On Leadership

This document discusses the importance of reflection for leadership development. Reflection involves thinking critically about one's experiences in order to learn and improve. Leaders should reflect on their performance in areas like self-leadership, motivating others, collaboration, creativity, empowerment, and vision. The purpose is to gain a deeper understanding of one's own values, knowledge, and skills. Effective reflection follows a cycle of experiencing an event, deeply reflecting on it, and then acting on the lessons learned. Leaders are encouraged to engage in reflective writing to strengthen their learning and provide evidence of developing capabilities.

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Reflecting On Leadership

Reflection involves thinking about our experiences. Day to day experiences of leadership, in
our personal and our working lives, offer opportunities for reflection and therefore learning.
Development of each of the Leadership Capabilities involves an ability to explore, question,
and evaluate one's own performance and development. That reflection might be about:

• Self- leadership eg What supports, or holds you back, from leading?

• Motivating and inspiring eg What have you done that has encouraged others to
be the best they can be? How have you achieved this?

• Collaborating and influencing eg What is the impact of your leadership on others -


and how can you develop your abilities to take others with you?

• Creativity and innovation eg What has helped you (or perhaps stopped you)
'thinking out of the box' - and supporting others to do the same?

• Empowering eg What part do you play in promoting an empowering culture? What


could you do differently - or better - to empower others?

• Vision eg What experiences have you had that have informed your vision for the future
- and what does this tell you about how you can put your ambitions into practice?

The purpose of reflection on leadership is to gain a better understanding of ourselves (our


values, knowledge and skills), so we can learn from our experiences, and adapt and respond to
new leadership challenges.

The reflective process involves:

Acting
on our learning about ourselves and
Experiencing
what you and others did, or
our capabilities eg putting new
didn’t do, the context in
insights and ideas into action, seeing
which the experience happened.
new opportunities for leadership.

Reflecting
Learning on the experience (replaying and re-
from reflection eg gaining a deeper evaluating the experience, paying close
understanding of how we feel about attention to our actions and feelings and
taking on a leadership role. using our knowledge of eg past experiences
of leadership, theories about leadership)

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Reflecting On Leadership

Finding out more about reflection


Have a look at Reflective Practice, a learning object that introduces you to the principles and processes
involved in being a reflective practitioner.

Different models and tools for reflection suit different people, so you may also want to explore some
different ways of understanding reflection, for example Kolb or Honey and Mumford Learning styles.

Writing about reflection


A lot of reflection happens in our heads, but it can also be very helpful to record reflection on experience.
This can strengthen the learning process, and also provide evidence to others of learning and development.
Reflective writing involves recording your experience (which may be an event or a period of time) and
your responses, feelings and learning about what happened, as well as what the outcome of the learning was.

Jenny Moon's Resources for Reflective Writing provides lots of examples and exercises to develop your skills.
Reflective writing may be something you want to do occasionally, or you may be interested in keeping a
Learning Journal on a more regular basis.

How can you use your reflective writing to evidence your learning?
Reflection is a key aspect of identifying and evaluating your personal capabilities in the Continuous Learning
Framework for the Social Services.

Reflection on experience underpins many learning activities and qualifications, including SQA
vocational qualifications in care, and in Leadership and Management. The Framework for Social Work
Education in Scotland requires students to use reflection on experience and reflective writing as tools
for learning.

If you are in employment in the social services, reflection and reflective writing will support your achievement
of National Occupational Standards and meeting Continuous Professional Learning (CPL) requirements.

Keep a Learning Log


As you explore Step into Leadership, use the Learning Log to reflect on your learning and keep a record of
what you have learned and how you are putting this into practice.

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