ttchuah/gist:2e8c60024f7d86c1c4100fc8afc81063

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Learn2Lead

There was much that I learned during this journey. What was most impactful: leadership is a skill that can be practiced and improved upon. It's achievable no matter what your personality type is. In the past, I always felt I was destined to be a life-long follower, but taking L2L has liberated me from this concept.

What must I unlearn to transform from individual contributor to leader?
* I need to get rid of my tunnel vision when it comes to my work. Sometimes I can get stuck in the weeds of doing my own work. I need to take a step back more often, and take a holistic view of the project/task as a whole. For instance I need to consider timelines, dependencies, blockers, who’s working with me on the project. And ultimately, how can we cooperate to get the work done as well as in as efficient a manner as possible.
* I also need to understand the people I'm working with. I must consider their personality types and their ways of approaching work in order to make our teamwork as effective as possible.

To take my learning journey forward, I need to:
* Become more conscious of leadership opportunities, so that I can apply what I’ve learned during L2L. Those opportunities come up on a personal level (maybe when working 1-on-1 with a more junior developer), on a team level and at a community level. And then take leadership action accordingly.
* After action has been taken, review the results of those actions.
* Ask my manager for advice on how to deal with challenging situations from a leader's perspective.

How I will apply my learnings and what are the results I'm looking for:
* Ultimately I need a starting point. 1) I'm mentoring a junior software developer at the moment. This is a chance to practice my skills in having difficult conversations as I'll need to set boundaries and correct this individual. I also need to apply my active listening skills to see how he responds to my guidance. 2) In my line of work, it's common to have engineers do things the same they've always been done, no matter how painful. I'm part of a working group that focuses on innovation - I can leverage this in order to find novel ways of solving problems, then share this with our community.
* I'm looking for my team members and my team as a whole to improve. Even to the point where I could exit the team and they would continue to succeed.
* I'm looking for my teammates to see me as someone competent and trustworthy, someone who will deliver when technically challenging situations arise.
	Learn2Lead

	There was much that I learned during this journey. What was most impactful: leadership is a skill that can be practiced and improved upon. It's achievable no matter what your personality type is. In the past, I always felt I was destined to be a life-long follower, but taking L2L has liberated me from this concept.

	What must I unlearn to transform from individual contributor to leader?
	* I need to get rid of my tunnel vision when it comes to my work. Sometimes I can get stuck in the weeds of doing my own work. I need to take a step back more often, and take a holistic view of the project/task as a whole. For instance I need to consider timelines, dependencies, blockers, who’s working with me on the project. And ultimately, how can we cooperate to get the work done as well as in as efficient a manner as possible.
	* I also need to understand the people I'm working with. I must consider their personality types and their ways of approaching work in order to make our teamwork as effective as possible.

	To take my learning journey forward, I need to:
	* Become more conscious of leadership opportunities, so that I can apply what I’ve learned during L2L. Those opportunities come up on a personal level (maybe when working 1-on-1 with a more junior developer), on a team level and at a community level. And then take leadership action accordingly.
	* After action has been taken, review the results of those actions.
	* Ask my manager for advice on how to deal with challenging situations from a leader's perspective.

	How I will apply my learnings and what are the results I'm looking for:
	* Ultimately I need a starting point. 1) I'm mentoring a junior software developer at the moment. This is a chance to practice my skills in having difficult conversations as I'll need to set boundaries and correct this individual. I also need to apply my active listening skills to see how he responds to my guidance. 2) In my line of work, it's common to have engineers do things the same they've always been done, no matter how painful. I'm part of a working group that focuses on innovation - I can leverage this in order to find novel ways of solving problems, then share this with our community.
	* I'm looking for my team members and my team as a whole to improve. Even to the point where I could exit the team and they would continue to succeed.
	* I'm looking for my teammates to see me as someone competent and trustworthy, someone who will deliver when technically challenging situations arise.