My group consisted of fellow classmates Jake Geiger, Kay Saguiped, Colton Woyak, and Chase Lundry. For our chosen service project, our group decided to team up with the Carroll Student Veterans Organization (CSVO) in order to help create, develop, and implement a veteran focused service project. After much brainstorming and decision making, our group and the CSVO decided to do a banner/holiday card event during the week of Veterans Day (November 9-13). At this event, members from our group, the CSVO, as well as the Carroll University Republicans would take shifts tabling an area where participants could sign a giant banner supporting our country’s veterans, to be hung in the Milwaukee VA Medical Center, as well as an area where they could
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One particular example of a correlation between the event and the content covered in our class, one that would probably be the most evident example, would be how this project connected with servant leadership. Servant leadership, as discussed by Peter Northouse (2013) in his book entitled Leadership Theory and Practice, has as one of its leadership behaviors “Creating Value for the Community”. One of the foundations Servant Leadership was built upon was the idea that leadership, great leadership, revolved around supporting, developing, and bettering the entire community (Northouse, 2013). This idea is strongly linked with one of the outcomes of Servant Leadership, which is to have an impact on society (Northouse, 2013). With our event, we as aspiring leaders attempted to reach outside our own community and positively effect a much larger community. We identified a group we thought needed to be supported, found a campus organization we could partner with, and achieved our goal of aiding that downtrodden …show more content…
According to Northouse (2013, p. 185), Transformational Leadership is a process by which a leader uses motivation to help followers accomplish more. It is my belief that our group experienced some form of Transformational Leadership because our results were seemingly the results one would expect from a group larger than ours (including the volunteers from CSVO). All members of our group had moments where they motivated one another and made sure things were going smoothly. In the end, our team would act more than the sum of its parts and have a greater impact on our targeted
One particular example of a correlation between the event and the content covered in our class, one that would probably be the most evident example, would be how this project connected with servant leadership. Servant leadership, as discussed by Peter Northouse (2013) in his book entitled Leadership Theory and Practice, has as one of its leadership behaviors “Creating Value for the Community”. One of the foundations Servant Leadership was built upon was the idea that leadership, great leadership, revolved around supporting, developing, and bettering the entire community (Northouse, 2013). This idea is strongly linked with one of the outcomes of Servant Leadership, which is to have an impact on society (Northouse, 2013). With our event, we as aspiring leaders attempted to reach outside our own community and positively effect a much larger community. We identified a group we thought needed to be supported, found a campus organization we could partner with, and achieved our goal of aiding that downtrodden …show more content…
According to Northouse (2013, p. 185), Transformational Leadership is a process by which a leader uses motivation to help followers accomplish more. It is my belief that our group experienced some form of Transformational Leadership because our results were seemingly the results one would expect from a group larger than ours (including the volunteers from CSVO). All members of our group had moments where they motivated one another and made sure things were going smoothly. In the end, our team would act more than the sum of its parts and have a greater impact on our targeted