Educational Leadership Journals
Ten Steps to
Leadership Development

Educational Leadership Journals – staying on track with the stroke of a pen.

Educational leadership journals are a tool that leaders use to document their experience along the journey to self-growth and leadership development.

Leaders, who have created a habit of maintaining educational leadership journals, enjoy going back year after year to remind themselves just how far they have come over past few weeks, months or years.

Journals provide important historic lessons learned throughout one’s life. Past journal entries remind us of how much we’ve grown and how much we have achieved in a relatively short period of time.

Renowned speaker and best selling author, Dr. John C. Maxwell often advocates the practice of keeping a leadership journal.

In fact, Dr. Maxwell refers to his journal as his leadership companion. He describes how he carries his companion with him at all times.

A journal/companion is a place where you can keep creative ideas, questions for future follow-up, personal/professional goals and commitments for future growth.

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Keeping important thoughts and reference material in a journal or system ensures that you can easily and quickly access the information anytime in the future – creating less stress on you to remember the information.

Maintaining an educational leadership journal is a practice where you get back from the process multi-fold what you put into it. One of the greatest benefits of making daily journal entries, however trivial – is that it provides a few moments for the author to simply think and reflect.

Leaders who keep a journal can go back and review their daily entries and quickly realize that those entries of years past, actually predicted their present day experience.

Educational leadership journals are very inexpensive. A journal, companion, diary - whichever term you choose to use, consists of a simple spiral notebook and a pen or pencil.

Get started today – Write, Think, Learn, Grow!

Check out Dr. Maxwell’s recent best-seller, Thinking for a Change: 11 Ways Highly Successful People Approach Life and Work The above selection is a highly insightful audio book. Dr. Maxwell speaks in depth about the importance of setting time aside to be alone with your own thoughts.

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