If I retook the SLPI today, I feel that many aspects of it would not change. If anything were to change it would be the section for encouraging the heart. This is because this was my weakest section, and I have since put more thought about this into my leadership style. Some plans and goals I have for future leadership endeavors include, being more encouraging to my fellow group members, rather than assuming they feel encouraged on which ever task we are trying to accomplish.
When thinking about the SLPI I noticed that I was not the only one to score low on encouraging the heart, two of my friends who took this also scored low on this section. This made me wonder why this could be, and if this was the weakest component, what was the strongest component? So, I looked up some information on this, and what I found was an article called Leadership Practices and Effectiveness among Greek Student Leaders. Within there college aged population, they found that the SLPI scores showed that the women believed they had the most leadership skill in Enabling Others to Act and the least amount in Challenging the Process.
This gave me a little bit of insight as to what was the norm for college aged women. Also, this information showed me that encouraging the heart was not the strongest among college aged women, and therefore makes me want to further improve this quality.