Leadership can be found all throughout life. From the moment one starts interacting with other human beings, leadership starts to take over due to the natural tendency we have to follow. Everyone has their own form of leadership. The most noticeable form of leadership is when one is incredibly vocal when leading. These people are the ones that you will pick out from afar. Another type of leadership which is just as great, if not better, is leading by example. These are the people who will not be as vocal when leading a group of people, but they show the “correct” way to behave and their followers will do as they do. Along with different styles of leadership, there are also “good” and “bad” forms of leadership. We have learned that sometimes,
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This is not necessarily bad, but it definitely did not define myself as a born leader. Once I put myself in a grouping with help from information we learned, I started to critique myself and why I was not an amazing leader like a charismatic or visionary leader. After much thought, I realized that one of the main reasons was because I was still very shy when it came to speaking in groups. When I was just one-on-one or in a small group of people, I could talk anyone’s ear off. However, when it gets to a large group of people, or public speaking, I got incredibly nervous and never came off as someone who had confidence in what I believed in. If someone comes off as not confident in what they are trying to convey, why should anyone else have any faith in them and follow that person? Most of the time, when it was not a formal setting and a leader was needed, I just kept my mouth shut and hoped someone else would step up because there was no chance of …show more content…
As an athlete at Lehigh University, we have gone through many leadership building functions and our baseball team itself is very big with building leaders so I was somewhat familiar with what I needed to get better. I knew the biggest thing I needed to fix was my inability to accept change. Also, it was necessary to acquire the skill of public speaking. I was aware that this would not be one of those things that you just “do”, but something that takes a lot of hard work and perseverance to accomplish. To work on each element, I had to build all of my leadership skills along with those two in
This is not necessarily bad, but it definitely did not define myself as a born leader. Once I put myself in a grouping with help from information we learned, I started to critique myself and why I was not an amazing leader like a charismatic or visionary leader. After much thought, I realized that one of the main reasons was because I was still very shy when it came to speaking in groups. When I was just one-on-one or in a small group of people, I could talk anyone’s ear off. However, when it gets to a large group of people, or public speaking, I got incredibly nervous and never came off as someone who had confidence in what I believed in. If someone comes off as not confident in what they are trying to convey, why should anyone else have any faith in them and follow that person? Most of the time, when it was not a formal setting and a leader was needed, I just kept my mouth shut and hoped someone else would step up because there was no chance of …show more content…
As an athlete at Lehigh University, we have gone through many leadership building functions and our baseball team itself is very big with building leaders so I was somewhat familiar with what I needed to get better. I knew the biggest thing I needed to fix was my inability to accept change. Also, it was necessary to acquire the skill of public speaking. I was aware that this would not be one of those things that you just “do”, but something that takes a lot of hard work and perseverance to accomplish. To work on each element, I had to build all of my leadership skills along with those two in