Bart Edge: Leadership Analysis

There are many ways to define leadership, but perhaps the most laconic as well as accurate definition is presented in Peter G. Northouse's Leadership: Theory and Practice book (Northouse, 2013, p.5): "Leadership is a process whereby an individual influences a group of individuals to achieve a common goal". Individuals, engaged in leadership, use influence to solve challenges, which the groups under their leadership face, in order to succeed in their common goals.

Being nominated for the Joanne Woodard Leadership Award has been one of the highlights of my semester thus far. I am truly honored to be nominated for an award that is a demonstration of my ability to lead ethically, serve as a role model, and use my influence to advance African and African American culture on campus. Having held different positions in various campus community centers, my goal is for my leadership style to reflect the missions of the African American Cultural Center, Multicultural Student Affairs, and the Office for Institutional Equity and Diversity.

Throughout my four years at the Bethel Park High School, I have represented myself as a strong leader. I never focused myself on just one aspect of leadership. To start, I have worked very hard to be considered as a captain of the cross country team, I currently hold the position of treasurer of the Journalism Club, and I am the head of a committee for the Principal Advisory Committee of Students. Being a leader in not something that I could learn from a textbook, it is a skill learned through my countless experiences. My current jobs that I hold give me great opportunities to prove my leadership skills. One of the most difficult is my referee job, which forces me to take the lead over coaches, players, and parents.

The first day of the 2017-2018 school year, August 27th has arrived. The students are back! This week’s emphasis is on establishing clear expectations while enforcing rules and procedures to set the foundation for a strong school year.

A State Representative, Randy Richards, organized a press conference coveting to sway a proposal for a bill to a avert state agencies and other health care providers from offering prenatal care to undocumented immigrants and billing the cost to Medicaid (Sharp, 2011, p. 72). In the press conference, he accuses undocumented immigrants from coming to the United States to take advantage of the Medicaid system by taking services away from the American Citizens who pay into the system with their taxes. When the floor was opened to the press to ask question or to elaborate on the proposal for the bill his answer were very vague or he eluded the question by saying, “…That is not the point…” (Sharp, 2011, p. 72). The Executive Director of the Health Care Authority, Mike Foley, decides to hold a press conference later that day to clear the air with factual information and providing laws stating, health care cannot be denied to anyone in search of preventative or medical attention. He articulates prenatal care for illegal women cost less than a $1000.00 and when the child is born, they become a natural American Citizen and how they deny service to an American. If these preventative services were denied during the pregnancy and the child is born with a serious medical condition it will cost the state over $130,000.00 (Sharp, 2011, p. 73) to treat the child for the rest of their life. Randy Richards, the representative, became infuriated and took great offense that Mike Foley, the

It was all over the news when the terrorist attacks happened in Paris. It was devastating to the families and people who live them found it difficult to cope. Many families migrated to the US to settle down with their remaining families that survive the tragedy. It was devastating all around the world and issues still remains unresolved till this day. After the tragedy, the US governors in each state were prepared and some were not prepared to accept refugees to reside in the state in which they are governing. A Republican Gov. Mike Pence, who is the governor of Indiana clearly and loudly declared the refusal of the Syrian refugees and suspended the resettlement of the families in Indiana. Gov. Mike

MSgt Abbott served as active duty Air Force for four years as a civil engineer, including one year in Korea, before transitioning into the California Air National Guard. She instantly competed for key leadership roles within her National Guard unit, while also pursuing a career utilizing the technical skills she acquired in the Air Force. Her dedication, drive, and leadership were unmatched as she was promoted into positions of great authority. MSgt Abbott deployed to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba in 2011. She coordinated planning and resources necessary to accomplish long term missions by working closely with her Army, Navy, and Marine counterparts. I was fortune enough to visit her in Cuba for her well-deserved promotion from Technical Sergeant

A strong leader that I would admire as a young student was my middle school ELL teacher. I would always admire this teacher because he was such a tremendous leader. I can still remember it clearly as if it was yesterday, he would tell us how to do our homework step by step. He would make sacrifices such as staying after school just to help my classmates and so that I could understand the material more. The way he treated us made me have a strong desire to be a good leader to my classmates and to others. In order to have a better leadership, you need to demonstrate good leadership behaviour. It’s important for each of us to identify our strengths and weakness to determine the good leadership skills that we have.

The Plank Center for Leadership in Public Relations has both indirect and direct competitors that serve as both an advantage and disadvantage when gaining the attention of their target audience.

A person who has had a very positive influence in my life was my very first Scout Master while I was in Boy Scouts. His name was Glen Long. He taught me many things about Boy Scouts, but this is not what makes him an influential person to me. Many people believe that to be a leader you must be strict and demanding. This is not the case, however. Mr. Long showed me many was in how to be a leader, but how to lead with the help of others. He taught me that no good leader leads on his or her own. He also put me in many different situations to get me out of my comfort zone because he said "a person never grows if they are always comfortable." He did this while being fun and starting a very personable relationship with me. He also taught

The Scholarly article I chose to write about for this week is Leadership Discussion topics, Philosophical Contributions to Leadership Ethics. This article was authored by Joanne B. Ciulla, David Knights, Chris Mabey, and Leah Tomkins. In this article, the authors discuss various leadership ethics as they are see through Phosphors. “Thought history, philosophers, ancient sages, historians, story tellers, dramatists, and artists have chronicled, contemplated, criticized, and even cringed at the ethical behavior of leaders.” (Ciulla, Knights, Mabey &Tomkins, 2017, p.1). In Law Enforcement, how many times have we seen leaders fall into unethical situations. During my time as a law enforcement officer I have seen several make both ethical and unethical decisions.

How do I show leadership in my life? How do I see myself as being a leader at UT Austin? In my life, I showed some leadership traits whether at school or home, that’ll affect my leadership abilities at UT Austin. When I was a sophomore, we did group quizzes in Algebra 2, and I would always be the one to step up and tell my group to split up and answer different parts of the quizzes, so after we finished the parts, we come together and review what we got. Since we split the questions, we would end up having a good amount of extra time to answer any questions the group had, and I would always be the one to check everybody’s quiz so no one would end up getting a different grade. At home when a problem occurred like something isn’t working or somebody

The second approach to address the leadership gap is through identifying the differences. Identifying the gaps will determine the shortfall of competencies and can provide insight information to improve how leaders perform in this competency. To fully recognize the leadership gap, healthcare leaders should determine the prevailing and future leadership requirements; compare those claims with the current leadership team; recognize current leaders who may be at risk of leaving; distinguish succession plans for those at risk of leaving or planning to leave; study the leadership development pipeline; and recognize the gaps in skills and the time required to fill those gaps (Oracle, 2012, p. 11). All of this identification of gap leadership assessments

The eight competencies were heavily focused upon throughout the Bronze Leadership Challenge. They are the building blocks for all the leadership challenges at UNCG. In the first workshop of bronze, we had to rate ourselves in these competencies on a 1-10 scale. I rated myself as followed:

The fifth and final leadership challenge is an inspirational message to readers who learn how to Encourage the Heart of their followers. Kouzes & Posner (2012) explain that, to further develop a highly effective team, leaders must “recognize contributions by showing appreciation for individual excellence, and celebrate the values and victories by creating a spirit of community” (p. 272). The importance of a highly motivated team who feels appreciated should not be understated, and is an integral aspect of organizational leadership. Kouzes & Posner explain that “to keep hope and determination alive, leaders recognize contributions that individuals make. In every winning team, the members need to share in the rewards of their efforts, so leaders celebrate accomplishments. They make people feel like heroes” (Kouzes & Posner, 2016, about sec).