Question 1: What is Leadership?
Leadership is thought as a trait. People can bring different ideas and everyone has different qualities that they can bring to the group. Some people are born naturally with the ability to lead. This is not the case for all leaders though. Others will develop their leadership through hard work and practice.
My definition of leadership has not really changed throughout the course but I have extend it by adding how leadership can grow by knowing and using your strengths. By using the Strengths Philosophy you can find out what your strengths are and taking one of your strengths, usually the strongest one, and focusing on it. By focusing on just one of your strengths you can make it stronger and it will benefit you …show more content…
There are 5,799 people who live in my county. Out of those 5,799 people 700 are food insecure, which comes to about 12%. To a lot of people 12% isn’t that much but in my mind one person who is food insecure is one too many. There are so many small communities in my county you could put about six towns population together and they would cover that 700 people who don’t have food. If you would tell someone that the people that live in 6 out of the 10 towns in my county are food insecure then that might get some people’s attention. That is just one way that you could put the numbers into perspective. Currently the county food bank is in my church. I guess I care so deeply about it because I have had the opportunity to help out the food bank in so many ways. I don’t want to just come up with a temporary plan to end food insecurity but try and come up with a long term plan that will allow people not to always relay on the food bank for their food. I think this purpose has a lot to do with my values. You have to have a lot of faith and courage to even try to attempt a project like this and many do not have the faith or courage. It also is about taking risks. I may do something and it may not work or help lower the food insecurity what now I can say that I have tried that and then I can try something else to see if it could help end the food …show more content…
I also plan on being a part time farmer so I could take some of the produce that I grow and bring it to the food bank so the ones in need could receive something healthy and they would be able to take more food that way. I think the biggest gap for me is just expanding my knowledge on food insecurity and how we can end it. There so much more to it than I currently know. One way that I can fill this gap is by taking more leadership classes and probably specifically the non-for-profit class. This will better my knowledge about how we can promote non-for-profit organizations and still be able to end food insecurity. It also would be very beneficial for me to take some economics classes. I don’t want to just help people who are food insecure but try to end food insecurity. To do that I feel that I need to know and be able to understand how economics
Leadership is thought as a trait. People can bring different ideas and everyone has different qualities that they can bring to the group. Some people are born naturally with the ability to lead. This is not the case for all leaders though. Others will develop their leadership through hard work and practice.
My definition of leadership has not really changed throughout the course but I have extend it by adding how leadership can grow by knowing and using your strengths. By using the Strengths Philosophy you can find out what your strengths are and taking one of your strengths, usually the strongest one, and focusing on it. By focusing on just one of your strengths you can make it stronger and it will benefit you …show more content…
There are 5,799 people who live in my county. Out of those 5,799 people 700 are food insecure, which comes to about 12%. To a lot of people 12% isn’t that much but in my mind one person who is food insecure is one too many. There are so many small communities in my county you could put about six towns population together and they would cover that 700 people who don’t have food. If you would tell someone that the people that live in 6 out of the 10 towns in my county are food insecure then that might get some people’s attention. That is just one way that you could put the numbers into perspective. Currently the county food bank is in my church. I guess I care so deeply about it because I have had the opportunity to help out the food bank in so many ways. I don’t want to just come up with a temporary plan to end food insecurity but try and come up with a long term plan that will allow people not to always relay on the food bank for their food. I think this purpose has a lot to do with my values. You have to have a lot of faith and courage to even try to attempt a project like this and many do not have the faith or courage. It also is about taking risks. I may do something and it may not work or help lower the food insecurity what now I can say that I have tried that and then I can try something else to see if it could help end the food …show more content…
I also plan on being a part time farmer so I could take some of the produce that I grow and bring it to the food bank so the ones in need could receive something healthy and they would be able to take more food that way. I think the biggest gap for me is just expanding my knowledge on food insecurity and how we can end it. There so much more to it than I currently know. One way that I can fill this gap is by taking more leadership classes and probably specifically the non-for-profit class. This will better my knowledge about how we can promote non-for-profit organizations and still be able to end food insecurity. It also would be very beneficial for me to take some economics classes. I don’t want to just help people who are food insecure but try to end food insecurity. To do that I feel that I need to know and be able to understand how economics