My feelings about keeping a scrapbook  

Although I’ve never kept a journal, or even a diary, I wish I had, and am quite excited over the prospect!  I’ve created a blog “Philip Radburn on Leadership” as the medium for my Leadership Portfolio as I think the format suits the task.  And I’ve been wanting to write a blog for a little while now.  This is my chance.
In “21800 Management and Organisations” I was introduced to “reflection” and saw its value in building personal capability.  This scrapbook gives me an opportunity to apply the technique to my self-improvement as a leader.
I haven’t in the past spent much time thinking or reading about leadership.  I’ve had formal leadership roles in the past - school prefect, project manager, business manager and so forth.  My appointment to such positions has been more based on my achievements rather than alpha male behaviour.  Any success I have had as a leader comes from moral, social and emotional facets rather than overt leadership posturing.  The “Reflected Best Self” exercise has made me think about leadership and my own leadership in particular.  The words of my friends and (former and current) colleagues, managers and staff have been pleasantly surprising.  Much of my behaviour that they have outlined I hadn’t thought of as leadership, but some of it certainly is.
So here we go.
Dear Diary,….....