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Leadership Professional Development Plan Leadership is defined as leading a group in a positive direction. I personally believe that a great leader is someone who provides the necessary tools and resources for his or her followers to succeed. In addition, I believe that a leader is someone who serves his or her followers by providing motivation, inspiration, and aspiration to influence them to achieve. Over this semester, I have had many experiences as a leader. Throughout this paper, I will illustrate what I have learned so far as a leader and in EDC 3900. Furthermore, I will demonstrate my plan as a leader in the future and how I will utilize it as a Residential Assistant in my community. In EDC 3900, we have had many discussions, …show more content…

Another concept that stuck to me was Change Agent. The book, Leadership for a Better World: Understanding the Social Change Model of Leadership Development by S.R. Komives and W. Wagner, defines change agent as “a person committed to a dynamic leadership process, lifelong learning, and relationships” (Komives 400). Being a change agent is very vital to me as a Residential Assistant and future leader in my community because being a leader must mean there must be a need to change. In other words, a leader must find the problem, create a thesis, and solve the problem by leading a team. In addition, it is important to me because it involves every step of the social change model. A change agent must utilize the entire social change model (Consciousness of Self, Congruence, Commitment, Collaboration etc.). Every step of the social is vital because every aspect that is include. Within this course, EDC 3900, I have learned and experienced many skills, qualities, traits, and competencies that will help me be successful when I leave Clemson. My career goal is to gain as much experience as possible within the business field. Afterwards, my goal is to become a business professor that teaches management and implement innovation. In this course we have learned how to be an effective and efficient leader within the community. Every leader is not the same. In the real world, or work force, I will have to encounter different leaders and learn how to be effective when I am put in a

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