1. In terms of times I worked with others in order to accomplish my goals, I want to talk about the time I worked in a dining hall. I worked in Dux Bistro which is one of the canteens in University of Oregon in the Living and Learning Center from January to August in my third school year, and I am a food server and Barista there.
As a team player, I collaborated with 10 to 20 people including students and staffs worked in a fast-paced environment to deliver quality product and provided quality customer service to customers. And I also did my responsibilities in insuring the accuracy of customer orders and trained new employees in operational procedures and customer service.
As we all know that dining hall is a quite busy place especially …show more content…
Motivate and influence people to action? Taking initiatives and responsibilities? A risk taker? Or they are supposed to listen to others? Actually, I have been trying to find out what stands in the way of improving my leadership behaviors all the time, eventually I found out that it is my personality. My personality makes me a person who is unwilling to accept being misunderstand. Although being a good leader should listen to others’ opinion and accept their corrections, it is hard for people to admit their mistake and not angry with criticize if they are being misunderstand and I am no exception. Therefore, when the staff in the dining hall tried to convince me and correct me if I think I am right, I tend to get impatient.
Being a leader is always my dream, in order to be a good leader in the future, what I need to improve is to listen to others and having an open mind. Leaders may acquire information from others very often, it cannot be denied that there will be some opinions are misleading or the tone of the speaker is unacceptable. Also, it is not necessary that the information leaders heard are good news and it could be bad news. Hence, having an open mind and listen to others’ opinion would be a lesson for
As a team player, I collaborated with 10 to 20 people including students and staffs worked in a fast-paced environment to deliver quality product and provided quality customer service to customers. And I also did my responsibilities in insuring the accuracy of customer orders and trained new employees in operational procedures and customer service.
As we all know that dining hall is a quite busy place especially …show more content…
Motivate and influence people to action? Taking initiatives and responsibilities? A risk taker? Or they are supposed to listen to others? Actually, I have been trying to find out what stands in the way of improving my leadership behaviors all the time, eventually I found out that it is my personality. My personality makes me a person who is unwilling to accept being misunderstand. Although being a good leader should listen to others’ opinion and accept their corrections, it is hard for people to admit their mistake and not angry with criticize if they are being misunderstand and I am no exception. Therefore, when the staff in the dining hall tried to convince me and correct me if I think I am right, I tend to get impatient.
Being a leader is always my dream, in order to be a good leader in the future, what I need to improve is to listen to others and having an open mind. Leaders may acquire information from others very often, it cannot be denied that there will be some opinions are misleading or the tone of the speaker is unacceptable. Also, it is not necessary that the information leaders heard are good news and it could be bad news. Hence, having an open mind and listen to others’ opinion would be a lesson for