Motor skills

As you get older you tend to reflect more on your life and get your priorities together. You tend to realize who and what is important, the people who mean the most to you and the ones you can’t live without. Who would those significant individuals be for you? For most people it would be their parents. In the poems “My Father’s Song” by Simon J. Ortiz, and “My Mother” by Ellen Bryant Voigt, both writers express their emotion towards a parent. One with a sense of regret and the other with a sense…

Team Development and Consensus A team plays an important role in an organization and is a viable tool of employee inspiration. It is essential to consider the way teams develop and mature over time. Team development builds a captivating environment by empowering co-operation, collaboration, reliance and by building trust among colleagues. Teams will experience four phases. Each phase of team development displays its own specific difficulties when gathering a group of individuals to strive to…

Reflection 2 This reflection is based on Gibbs’ (1988) Reflective Framework. Description: This is the first time we’re using scrum methodology for a project which is focusing on delivering working small portions of the end-product. It is an essential learning for me as it requires tight interaction and communication between different stakeholders. There are two interesting scrum artefacts to me: product backlog and the stand-up meeting. Product backlog requires the team to split the whole…

As I reflect back on my first week of the residency session, one of the earliest learning (of many that I will attain over the next 17 months), was my naive knowledge on the concept of emotional intelligence. My definition of emotional intelligence prior to taking the class was one’s ability to understand and manage emotions in personal and professional life. To my surprise, I am not only made aware of the importance of managing emotions but also acknowledging the importance of perceiving,…

The trait theory of leadership theorizes that personality traits inspires leader development and efficiency in an organization. The trait theory of leadership focused on investigating the mental, physical, and social characteristic of people in order to gain a better understanding of what characteristics are most common among leaders, in which the trait theories of leadership identified the specific personality traits that distinguish leaders from non-leaders. According to Colbert, A. E., Judge,…

The team simulation exercise allowed the team to practice our collaboration skills and emotional intelligence. During the past two days, I have had the opportunity to learn a great deal about myself as a leader and team member and observe others’ behaviors and how they influence the team’s dynamic and effectiveness. As a result, there were many lessons gained that helped to guide the learning environment. To begin, I exhibited what is categorized as self-limiting behavior during the first day…

Being considered an epic hero requires exceeding in lots of different aspects of life. Strength, humility, likeability; the list could go on and on. Very few people, especially in today’s world, are able to have the perfect combination of all of these attributes. Bo Jackson is an epic hero because of all the challenges he faced, he has incredible strength, and was one of the most humble athletes of his time. While Bo was very naturally gifted, there were times where it seemed like all the odds…

Authoritarian/autocratic leadership The authoritarian/autocratic group leader typically is an expert who directs the movement of the group and makes all the strategic decisions within the group or organization (Val & Kemp, 2012; Gill, 2014; Gladding, 2016). Per Gladding (2016), authoritarian group leaders can be charismatic and manipulative and typically believe they understand group dynamics, make interpretations, give advice, demand obedience, and expect conformity. Furthermore, these leaders…

EMERGENCY SUPPORT FUNCTION #9: SEARCH AND RESCUE Jeremy Hughart American Military University I chose to write this paper on the emergency support function #9: Search and Rescue. This function is especially important to me because it requires the most specialized training and dedication to the job. Search and rescue personnel must have nerves of steel and be able to perform under incredible stress when called upon. They must be ready to launch immediately after all natural disasters on land,…

My Journey to Success Everyone has their own opinion of success. If a person were to ask a group of people what they thought made a person successful, they may say hard work, or that they were merely born into a situation, or an advantage that gave you an easy path to success. Although both may be true, Malcolm Gladwell, the author of Outliers, shows us all the circumstances that contribute to our success. These factors or circumstances include the time period in which you are born, the place…