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Discussion 1: Leadership 

Have you ever been in a leadership role?

• If yes, briefly relate your experience and what you learned about yourself. What characteristics do you think made you a good leader?
• If no, give an example of a leader you have personally known. This could be a teacher, pastor or organizational leader of a club that you are a member of. Which characteristics make you believe they are a leader.

Discussion 2: Communication Shortcuts

Identify and define the meaning of 10 common communication shortcuts you use in text messaging or e-mails. Explain how the use of these methods of communication could give way to miscommunication and why? Give several examples.

Discussion 3: Evaluations

Describe a scenario in which you were evaluated or had to evaluate someone. It doesn’t have to be a job evaluation but it can be a survey you completed after interaction with someone (after dining out) or perhaps when you had the opportunity to complete a course survey for a class.

Respond to several of the questions below. You don’t have to answer all of them. They are included to provoke a thought process. Answer the ones you can relate to based on your life experience.

• Do you think that all evaluations and surveys are useful?
• When do you think an evaluation would not be necessary?
• Was there ever a time when you didn’t complete a survey?
• After learning about the usefulness of measuring performance and the importance of evaluations do you think you will take more opportunities to evaluate and offer feedback?