Human skills

the GEICO Achievement Award. Academically, I am an honors Human Resource Management and Organizational Leadership double major with a 4.0 GPA, who has made Dean’s List every semester during my tenure at ISU. Currently, I hold several top leadership positions on campus such as the President of the College of Business Executive Council (COBEC), President and Founder of Christian Business Leaders (CBL), and treasurer of the Society for Human Resource Management. To focus deeply on the…

that I will never be able to become a CEO or high level manager. The idea got into my head around sophomore year in high school. Around this time is when I settled into the idea that I wanted to be a business major and started to pursue classes in human resources and management. I would often accompany my dad to his job where he oversees several hundred people. There I saw the amount of responsibility and tasks that he had to do each day. At the time all of it was very overwhelming to me, I…

1. In this chapter leadership is described as non-coercive influence. For what reasons might followers be motivated to respond to a leadership initiative? Followers would me more motivated to response to a leadership initiative, if the leaders worked with the followers to achieve common goals. The main reason why coercive influence is a non-factor for leaders, is it uses threats and punishments to entice followers to work towards a goal, but does not include the leaders working with the…

In today’s society, innovation plays a key role in CEOs and leaders in every company that represents America’s workforce. Why is this you ask? Creating innovative ideas and the ability to keep up with the latest trend is forever evolving. Things be changed live in the world in which companies excel millions every year from creative ideas. At the top of every company is a leader, it takes a leader to keep a business thriving and moving forwards. The responsibility of innovative ideas things be…

questionnaire analyzes discuss the skills and behavioral approach to leadership. When conducting the questionnaire for this week I felt more engaged in the evaluation than last weeks’. I figured this is because I am becoming more aware of the leadership traits and how I can apply them to my personal leadership qualities. After the completion of the questionnaire, I could better classify myself and my approach to leadership. The first assessment relates to skills approach, in which, it measured…

concentrate on Advocacy and Helping Skills. I find that sometimes when working with groups I forget that everything can be a teaching and learning moment. When I see a team member in a concerning situation I sometimes just take over the task or “fix” the problem. I know that I need to work on my helping skills and try to help guide the team member through the situation, rather than just take control. This also plays closely with the need to improve my advocacy skill. I am often one who tries to…

The goals of the leadership development process is to help enhance the roles of leadership within the organization (Getha-Taylor, Fowles, Silvia & Merritt, 2015). Leadership development training programs focus on the leadership skills needed to be more effective leaders and members of a team. The role of a leader will involve how well an individual can develop and maintain interpersonal relationships. These relationships include no only include the relationship between the leader and their…

My goal is to work for a non-profit organisation, international organisation, or social enterprise in a department that relates to communication and media, or personnel and human resources. Three job positions that I chose from the website are Public Relations Specialists, Program Directors, and Fraud Examiners/Analysts. (onetonline.org.) Most of activities of these three positions are related to communication, administration, and personnel resources. Public Relations Specialist is the position…

An Agent of Competency As children, many young boys and girls watch sports on television with the hopes of one day being the one who is scoring the game winning touchdown, or shooting the game winning shot at the buzzer, or landing the perfect 10 to bring home the gold. Upon growing up, many of these same children realize only a select few will achieve that goal and must look for other ways to earn a living. One career path that can be taken that allows one to be part of the sport they love is…

our differences are what make us all special. Competency 3: Advance Human Rights and Social, Economic, and Environmental Justice. Case management has been advocating for clients on all aspects of improving their economic and social…