When I wake up in the morning, I don’t automatically think I’m a born leader. No one gets out of bed thinking that they will randomly lead a group and be the best leader. Like everything else in life, we slowly learn. We have to experience it ourselves in order to become better leaders. Maybe one day I’m given the task of leading a group. Honestly, I will work with my group and see if we would get a task done. No one said I would be a good leader. I am willing to try, though. Like Erika Andersen said in a Forbes article, a leader must have three characteristics: Become a fair witness, invite feedback, and listen (Andersen).
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I knew how they felt. Like any other 14-year-old who 's making that transition into high school, they were scared. All of them had the same fears of coming high school. They were all scared they were going to get lost, be late to class, or be made fun of at school. Like Simon Sinek said in the TED Talks video, he stated that humans constantly live in fear and the only way they can feel safe is if they have a leader that they knew could lead them to safety. With the thought of trusting their leader, they would cooperate with the leader (Sinek). I was able to be there for my peers because two years ago, I was also in their shoes. I knew how they felt. My freshmen group are experiencing the same fears that I had. I tried to assure them that everything will be okay. That their fears were just things that they saw in a movie. After telling them that everything would be okay, they seem to trust me. After understanding how the incoming freshmen felt - scared, tired, and not wanting to start high school this early in August - they came through. I will say that throughout the day, some kids were being uncooperative and started off being rude at first. There were two students in particular who were being a bit disrespectful. They both refused to talk, said unnecessary comments, and were just on their phones all day, but it only took them three hours to finally talk and …show more content…
McChrystal is proving that leaders will let you make mistakes because your leader won’t always be with you. The reason why leaders do this is so that the person in training knows what to do one day if the leader isn’t there. My captain makes it seem like we ARE failures. As if we never take her criticism seriously and we will never get better unless she’s on our backs. But do you know why all of the new members (and maybe some veterans on the team) don’t improve so well? Because we’re scared. She is the danger that we are all hiding from. Instead, we all get together to get away from her instead of her, our LEADER, leading us to success. We don’t know what this psycho is going to do next! Some of us even end up crying! I hope she reads this essay at one point. I’ll be more than happy to let her ‘proofread’ my essay.
It’s difficult to have these three important characteristics of being a leader - to be a fair witness, invite feedback, …show more content…
I knew how they felt. Like any other 14-year-old who 's making that transition into high school, they were scared. All of them had the same fears of coming high school. They were all scared they were going to get lost, be late to class, or be made fun of at school. Like Simon Sinek said in the TED Talks video, he stated that humans constantly live in fear and the only way they can feel safe is if they have a leader that they knew could lead them to safety. With the thought of trusting their leader, they would cooperate with the leader (Sinek). I was able to be there for my peers because two years ago, I was also in their shoes. I knew how they felt. My freshmen group are experiencing the same fears that I had. I tried to assure them that everything will be okay. That their fears were just things that they saw in a movie. After telling them that everything would be okay, they seem to trust me. After understanding how the incoming freshmen felt - scared, tired, and not wanting to start high school this early in August - they came through. I will say that throughout the day, some kids were being uncooperative and started off being rude at first. There were two students in particular who were being a bit disrespectful. They both refused to talk, said unnecessary comments, and were just on their phones all day, but it only took them three hours to finally talk and …show more content…
McChrystal is proving that leaders will let you make mistakes because your leader won’t always be with you. The reason why leaders do this is so that the person in training knows what to do one day if the leader isn’t there. My captain makes it seem like we ARE failures. As if we never take her criticism seriously and we will never get better unless she’s on our backs. But do you know why all of the new members (and maybe some veterans on the team) don’t improve so well? Because we’re scared. She is the danger that we are all hiding from. Instead, we all get together to get away from her instead of her, our LEADER, leading us to success. We don’t know what this psycho is going to do next! Some of us even end up crying! I hope she reads this essay at one point. I’ll be more than happy to let her ‘proofread’ my essay.