During this quarter, I have obtained an in-depth understanding of how leadership impact social change through our course materials and volunteer experience. From all the experiences that I have gained throughout the quarter, I have learned that everyone in the society can make change. Most importantly, the Social Change Model (SCM) that mentioned in the Leadership for a Better World (2009) helps me to get a better sense of how to make effective change. Being aware of what is happening around us is a fundamental step to initial any types of change, and we need to insist on our goals after knowing what we are going to change in order to sustain positive social change.
Everything is changing constantly, and there are various types of issues …show more content…
Therefore, being willing to make differences helps us in becoming more capable. If we really want to make effective changes, persistence is an essential key, because nothing could be attained if we do not have patience and persistence. There may be tremendous challenges that lying ahead since everything may not be that easy at its beginning, thus, being able to insist on our goals is really important. Perhaps we may not be able to make a remarkable change alone, but change could be made if we put our effort together. Making change alone might be impossible, but making change as a group would be more attainable because each tiny effort lead change become more …show more content…
Therefore, having a leader would be really helpful for the group because the leader plays an important role in guiding other participants to create effective changes. From my observation, I feel like good leaders should be capable of making good decisions and opening to feedback because both of them are important keys to help the leaders become more open-minded. Positive feedback makes leaders become more confident, and negative feedback helps leaders in understanding their imperfection. I realize that followers tend to follow those leaders who are confident, because confident leaders are able to drive their followers in positive ways.
Being optimistic towards goals allows the group to create effective outcomes, and it also allows each participant to become more engaged and filled with passion. I feel like passionate people are more likely to attain what they want. Therefore, we need to be confident and positive first if we want to sustain positive social change. And everything is attainable as long as we take actions. Because I always believe that actions is the most powerful thing that drive us become
Everything is changing constantly, and there are various types of issues …show more content…
Therefore, being willing to make differences helps us in becoming more capable. If we really want to make effective changes, persistence is an essential key, because nothing could be attained if we do not have patience and persistence. There may be tremendous challenges that lying ahead since everything may not be that easy at its beginning, thus, being able to insist on our goals is really important. Perhaps we may not be able to make a remarkable change alone, but change could be made if we put our effort together. Making change alone might be impossible, but making change as a group would be more attainable because each tiny effort lead change become more …show more content…
Therefore, having a leader would be really helpful for the group because the leader plays an important role in guiding other participants to create effective changes. From my observation, I feel like good leaders should be capable of making good decisions and opening to feedback because both of them are important keys to help the leaders become more open-minded. Positive feedback makes leaders become more confident, and negative feedback helps leaders in understanding their imperfection. I realize that followers tend to follow those leaders who are confident, because confident leaders are able to drive their followers in positive ways.
Being optimistic towards goals allows the group to create effective outcomes, and it also allows each participant to become more engaged and filled with passion. I feel like passionate people are more likely to attain what they want. Therefore, we need to be confident and positive first if we want to sustain positive social change. And everything is attainable as long as we take actions. Because I always believe that actions is the most powerful thing that drive us become