I have found myself to be in various leadership roles throughout my life. I was class president for three years in high school. I was captain of the Varsity Tennis team my senior year of high school. In college I founded the first Bollywood dance team at the University of Vermont and was President until I graduated in May 2015. With each role I have learned different skills but the most important being that a good leader must listen without judgment.…
The Leadership Challenge discusses “strengthen (ing) resilience” (pp 206). I am the kind of person who wants all of my ducks in a row so when one or two are out of line, I get flustered not to mention overwhelmed to the point wanting to quit. The past few years have been one of loss in various ways; my father’s passing, my beloved pet for nine years passing, my husband’s illness, the loss of our house as well as the loss of my husband’s and partner’s business. Even though we are still reeling with the impact of what we have been hit with, we continue to encourage one another emotionally to look ahead, not dwell on the past.…
I wanted to know if we could meet whenever your schedule is free to discuss careers. Too make a long story short I decided to switch majors. I am now a communication major with psychology and business minors. I wanted to do work with organizational and/or (if there is some career that fuses these communication studies together) intercultural communication. I have done research through O*Net…
The Shot Felt Around The World BEEP BEEP BEEP! My alarm clock stroke 7 A.M. I hit the snooze button just like I always do. UGGGHHHH I screech as I crawl out of bed. I walk to the living room and turn on the news. I walked to the kitchen to brew my daily coffee.…
Discuss a leadership experience you have had in any area of your life: school, work, athletics, family, church, community, etc. How and why did you become a leader in this area? How did this experience influence your goals? I was playing soccer with my friends in my neighborhood just a normal day everything looked as usual. But while I was playing soccer I was hearing a noise, not knowing if I am the only one who is hearing I felt deluded for a moment and stopped playing soccer and headed to the direction where the noise was coming from.…
A leadership experience that had a positive influence in other students lives and my life was having the opportunity to be chosen as a link crew leader. As a link crew leader I participated in organizing the freshman orientation, getting assigned a group of freshman to do activities with, and throughout the year visit a freshman classroom and do activities with them. Those activities varied, disguised as exciting games, they were actually great metaphors for skills that they could apply to high school and through life. I wanted to make this the best orientation ever for them and I wanted to make them feel comfortable because I knew what it was like to be in their positions, I was just as anxious and out of place as they were.…
When I attended my first Model United Nation I learned many new things. This debating session increased my confidence and how to express my views in public. I was impressed by my chairs who had a great experience and amazing speaking power. With their great knowledge they were able to chair a huge crowd. This inspired me to gain more knowledge and to do more research so that I could be on a strong position whenever I enter in any…
When I grow up, I want to change the world! Changing the world one day would make me feel really good. Three ways I would change the world are: make sure everyone has a shelter to live in; help more lost, sick, and hurt animals, and make sure no one is hungry. I would like to help homeless people have a nice place to stay. When I’m driving downtown I see a lot of homeless people on the streets; dirty, and sad.…
Making It to the Big Time I am Vincent Crabtree. When I was a freshman in High School, I participated in an activity called “Winter Percussion”. It was much like marching band, but it took place during the winter and spring season, and it featured a smaller ensemble composed mostly of percussive instruments. Throughout the season, we had practice almost nightly, working to put together a show that would be performed in competition with other drumlines.…
Three months ago I stepped off the ship to see ground for the first time in three years. My initial sights of the New World and the native people was enigmatic and disconcerting- never have I felt so unacquainted with a populace. I have spent my time here in Mexico City trailing along with a group of apprentices of master artists whom I traveled with on the ship from Seville. My artist companions have enlightened my understanding of New World society with their paintings in the time that we have spent together. I’ve been earning exceptional fortune in harvesting New World cochineal for export to Europe and providing pigments for the paint of my fellow artist friends.…
My first leadership experience came from being a voluntary work as a life- and management skills trainer, where I had to deal with different background, minds and studies trainees, to be the leader of my own session, the thing that let me build my communication, discussion and presentation skills. During this period I have met so many people with various way of thinking, where I succeed dealing with them each time. After that I started working as assistant supervisor in a psychological support centre for the international medical corps, where I had the chance to deal with very professional and creative people, the hardest thing was being accepted as the youngest member of the team and to be known as a leader , but being in this atmosphere…
D. Ronald Ente Learning style Visual & Interpersonal learner Ron prefers using pictures, images, drawings or any visual source. For me, it is the most creative way of learning and at the same time, it is most effective if I will do it with a group of people. It gives me motivation seeing people around doing the same thing. Sharing of ideas, knowledge and style within a group of people are some of the ways that enhancing my cognitive skills.…
What is a Legacy Leader? FM 6-22 defines leadership as “the process of influencing people by providing purpose, direction, and motivation while operating to accomplish the mission and improving the organization.” When you become a leader of Soldiers you are giving the opportunity to develop and mold future leaders. A legacy leader to me is someone who has the ability to get you to follow regardless to how you feel about the situation. My legacy leader influential ability went far beyond his duty as a leader.…
Assessing My Style of Leadership There are many great leaders in this world, but they don’t all use the same method or style of leadership. Determining your leadership strengths and weaknesses can help determine a leadership style that best suits you, enabling the identification of ones strengths and the opportunity to improve weaknesses. Doing so will help you maximize your leadership abilities. I will be using the University of Kent Leadership Assessment to assess and explain my leadership style. These results will be analyzed and examined to see which assessment results were most surprising.…
I would describe my cultural identity as fairly mainstream, white, male, from a working class family, middle class, American born, and first generation college student Gen Xer. I am someone who holds traditional Christian values, but is not as conservative as say many from my parents’ generation. As mentioned, I grew up in a working class household in eastern WA. My family earned a living in agriculture; therefore, hard work was an important value for me from a young age. I shared my surrounding with mostly people of Hispanic ethnicity, who also valued hard work and traditional values, such as time with family.…