DECA Officer Position

I have best demonstrated my leadership ability on my schools track and field team. When I first joined the team my freshman year, I never thought I would develop a leadership role on the team. As a rookie to the sport, my only focus was performing my best and having fun; developing a leadership role never crossed my mind. It was my sophomore year that I developed a sense of leadership. As I was now a returner, I now

As a secretary for the Turlock FFA chapter, I consider myself a leader. I have a taken a leadership position that has expanded my knowledge of how a leader should be and how to take responsibility. I have influenced other members from my school to participate in events and attend meetings. I have shown them what I learned and how I applied it to my everyday life. I also learned that I can improve and better myself from trying an experience that would take me out of my comfort zone. It was a little challenging adapting and keeping up with the events and

A leadership session taught me the difference between a leadership position and a position of leadership. When I became a member of the student government association, I obtained a leadership position. Only now can I fully say that I am in a position of leadership. It’s not about being better than anyone else; it’s about being the piece of

I have had many accomplishments and times of leadership. Some leadership roles I have participated in are: being Deacons Quorum President, Senior Patrol Leader, Band, Cross Country, “Teacher’s PET” in 5th grade, and Basketball. Some achievements I’ve accomplished are: being #1 on the reading hall of fame in 5th grade, had 4 Band concerts, gone to Scout Camp and helped with eagle projects, been to 7 Cross Country meets, and been on 3 Basketball teams.

I have not had many leadership roles because I do not seek them. That said the few roles I have had have always been particularly important. I have worked in the Registrar’s Office for Mrs.

The President of the Student Council. The drum major of the marching band. The founder of the biggest club at school. All of these positions involve organizing, interacting with, and motivating a large amount of people and just scream “LEADERSHIP!” However, this wasn’t the right kind of leadership for me; I’m not the type to get up and speak in front of a big group of people or give grandiose motivational speeches, but I still wanted to be helpful to others nonetheless.

One of my very first instances of leadership was during a Boy Scout meeting about five years ago where I led our

Being part of the John Delloro Social Justice Transfer Program, I had helped out with orientation, tee shirt process and volunteering with the fundraiser events during my second year in the program. Even though I did not run for a position in the program, I was helping out members that are in cabinet. I would welcome new members into the program and teach them how to groupme and inform them the purpose of the group chat. I would make announcement about events that are happening on campus in the chat. When the program decided to order tee shirt one member and I decided to be in charge of it. I was messaging every members individually if they wanted one and also what size they were. I recorded everyone sizes and collected the money. I decided

As a teenager, I can’t recount many leadership instances in my life as they’re mostly insignificant. Although I guess there’s just one notable moment: early this year in my culinary arts class, my teacher instructed the students to self-organize themselves by sitting in alphabetical order. Us being awkward Freshman

I have several notable accomplishments in both my education and my work experience. Probably the most notable accomplishment is serving as Vice President of the SHRM chapter at Towson University. I joined SHRM at Towson University this past semester. During our first meeting, it was brought to attention that the executive board was going to graduate and positions needed to be filled. I was immediately interested in becoming part of the board because I understand the value and opportunities that come with holding a position. Throughout the semester I attended every meeting, participated in fundraiser events, and attended information sessions on executive board roles and responsibilities. I quickly determined that the VP role was personally,

A large part of this position is speaking with absolute strangers which intimidated me initially, but I quickly realized that if I want to become a better leader that I would have work with all types of people whether they are my friends or total strangers. From taking on this responsibility I became extremely skilled at talking to parents, and public speaking. When I spoke to parents I had to make sure what I was saying was clear and succinct. Furthermore, from this position I learned how to troubleshoot problems and instead of reaching out for help from my elders I wanted to figure out problems on my own and be more self sufficient so I can take my skills such as being decisive, but also having humility which are very important to have as a leader. Before this experience, I always just thought of leaders as camp counselors who have different colored shirts than everyone else, but in fact that is not true. As a leader you have to have the same colored shirt as your peers because you have to work with them, and if you put yourself on a pedestal then the people you are leading will not want to cooperate with you, but if you are humble you are listening to others ideas, and admit you do not know all the

The largest leadership position I’ve held throughout high school would definitely be my role as drum captain. This year I’m taking on even more responsibility since our band director was diagnosed with cancer over the summer, and is still in the hospital. I have been teaching drumline and percussion fundamentals as well as leading drumline practice and rehearsals. I also took the initiative to wrote a drumline cadence over the summer, and more recently after school I’ve been choreographing a halftime show for basketball season. Leading a group of my peers has been an eye-opening

After secondary school, I was very fortunate of receiving a full-time job offer from an agrochemical company as a Laboratory Analyst, but it was a great challenge too. Prior to that, I worked on temporary jobs such as a food delivery boy and a printing operator. I studied chemistry for four years and felt confident in doing my job and learning everything related to it without complications, but little I knew about leadership. I always competed in sports and lead a few teams, but a job felt very different.

The most challenging leadership role for me, was when I first started my position as a program activity leader at the Boys and Girls Club. As a program activity leader, I would be taking care, leading and teaching a group of 20 children afterschool. At the school I work at, children from all different types of needs would come. So, when I first started, it was hard to get the attention of all children, play games that all the children liked and teach bullying and health activities to all the children with their full attention. To solve all these problems, I had to figure out how to accommodate all the children so that they all had fun. Though it took time, I learned that the children did not like to play games where there was competition rather

A strong example of my leadership experience is my senior season of football. Following the 2016-2017 academic year, our head coach resigned on short notice and lacked any coach to fill the position. Because he left on such short notice, we didn’t have a coach for the first two weeks of the preseason, a crucial developing point in the season. However, a small group of other seniors and I were able to schedule workouts until we got a new coach. This established our group as team leaders and allowed us to lead the team to success in the regular season. I was later named a team captain for my leadership on and off the field. This gave me the ability further lead by example as well as keep the team’s morale up in the face of adversity. I ran extra