Professor Li
Bus- W430
April 3 2014
W430 Personal Best Leadership Project
Section 1
360
School
Work
Volunteering
Family/ Friends
Upward
Previous Professor: Li Chenwei, Bingi Prasad
Parent: Mother
Upward
Lateral
Close friend: Yangxin Zhou, Jin Gu, Yiheng Gui, Mengqian Li, Lingling Liu, Zhengwei Wu, Yajun Ji, Junlan Ma
Downward
Casual Acquaintance:
Huang Nico
Section 2
2. Recognize patterns: Finding Common Themes
Common theme
Examples given
Possible Interpretation
Hard working
I study hard in the U.S and practice English
I didn’t go back home when I was studying IELTS if I had a holiday
I think Chinese students all like studying hard because we believe if we …show more content…
Compose your self-portrait When I am at my best, I will work hard to finish all kinds of work and finish my job carefully. When I am at my best, I will never give up, try my best to do better and make best use of opportunities. When I am at my best, I will keep practicing my English and spend more time on adapting American culture. When I am at my best, I will treat my friends very well and be honest to them. When I am at my best, I will meet more friends and maintain relationships with them. When I am at my best, I will show my friends how interesting Chinese culture is and encourages them to visit China. When I am at my best, I will communicate with my friends more and achieve more information with them. When I am at my best, I will never be negative and keep smiling to every day life. When I am at my best, I will get power and energy to face with different trouble. When I am at my best, I believe tomorrow is better than today if I keep going.
4. Redesign your …show more content…
First, I need to develop my communication skill that I should know how to talk with strangers and how to express my feelings to others. Second, I need to develop my relationships in the U.S. Because being in the U.S is a quite different environment, I don’t have enough friends that will help me get more information about jobs, so next few years I need to make more friends and maintain relationship with them. Third, I need to adapt to American culture and practice English. Because English is my second language, there is still a little difficult to communicate with others in English. So, I need to be assertive enough and try to speak up in the