Leadership Reflection

What are some of the personal dynamics in my life that impact my leadership style? I believe that it all starts with me and how I raise my children. As a parent, you are called to be a leader. We teach our children to be honest, respectful and, do their best at whatever they set out to accomplish. We do this in hopes that when the time comes for them to leave home, they will have a firm understanding of what it takes to be a good person. The similarities in parenting roll into my leadership at work. As a leader, we apply the same principles that we are teaching our children to our constituents, in hopes that they aspire to grow in their professional lives.

“I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile” (Walter Chrysler). Deciding on what one wants to be in life can prove to be a demanding task. There are so many, yet limited, different opportunities in the world to have an excellent career and make a decent living while doing something one loves. It is limited because there are only a few specific career paths that someone could take to make good money. It is very difficult to make a fulfilling living being a garbage man. There are many different opportunities because, within these specific careers, there are usually various paths to take. Someone who has dreams to be a

For the past 2 years, I thought my passion was money, success, and having a boss level career. But after recent experiences, I realized that's not at all what I want.

Current Vision Statement: I, Alize Markson, as a leader living and working at my highest and best am: Open, empathetic, confident, understanding, and motivated so that I am the most proactive person. Therefore, I am reliable and understandable to my family and friends.

Leadership is the root of change, whether it be in a person, organization, or both. It is a skill that is best to be built upon during one’s entire life and it’s capable of affecting a vast number of people. Everyone automatically assumes that people in higher positions are leaders when in all actuality, anyone has what it takes to be a leader. There are principles of leadership well beyond the book we were assigned to read, but I’m grateful to have gotten to learn about (and apply) a few of them to the outpatient clinic. Without knowing about the principles to be discussed in the following paragraphs, I most likely would not have displayed the leadership skills that I have during my

My views on managing public and private organizations haven’t changed significantly over the progress of this course. The course readings and assignments solidified my understanding of core management concepts learned in previous courses. DuBrin (2012) covered some of the human resource concepts such as managing ineffective performers, developing job descriptions, job design, and teams more deeply than in other classes. Management and leadership are essential roles to both public and private organizations that influence the direction and success of the organization. Regardless of the level of manager, the critical functions focus on, “…planning, organizing and staffing, leading and controlling” (DuBrin, 2012, p. 2).

In the readings, for this assignment, Covey writes that humans are four-dimensional beings. The dimensions include To Learn, To Love, To Live, and To Leave a Legacy. He argues that people will work according to how they are treated based on opportunities to use all four components of their dimensional being. Bolman, argues that there are many characteristics and studies that have been conducted about leadership. There are some things that are similar, but there are also differences depending on context, situation, and culture.

My name is Vipanpreet kaur and I am from India. I have done bachelors of Science in nursing and now I am doing masters of public health this is my second semester in which I learned more about leadership such as roles and responsibilities of the leader such as, instructions, guidance and provide directions to a group of individuals. To begin with, “Leadership” refers to the art of inspiring a number of people to act towards achieving a specific goal and “advocacy” is a term used for supporting a cause or issue in order to bring about change and help others. The leadership is essential to initiate action towards a common goal, for creating confidence and coordination. We have done our advocacy campaign last week in that I learned more about the health leadership and skills. My group advocacy campaign was based on the video which was on distracted walking and the central message was “Don’t unlock it put it in your pocket”. The group main focus was to aware the individuals regarding mobile phones so that they will not use the phones while walking to reduce the number of injuries or incidence associated with young individuals which are happen because of distracted walking in terms of accidents. The main objective of this campaign is to observe an attitude change towards the risks of smart phones use while walking by conducting a survey of attitudes. The population who are more at risk is the main target specifically young adults between the age of 15-24years and female

The power trip of many leaders, both lead Pastors and board members have caused a great deal of harm to the body of Christ. Over the years when I have dealt with difficult people in ministry, those words I heard from my Pastor have played in my head like a recording in order to try and justify a certain action or decision on my part. I’ve learned through the years that pulling rank or imposing my will just because I have the title or position of Pastor only frustrates people more. Often leaders will say things in the heat of the moment and then regret what they have said. I constantly tell myself “think about what you’re about to say”. James says, “Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry.” I am convinced that if as leaders we would respond in love and compassion we would resolve many of the issues we confront in leadership.

Leadership surrounds in many capacities of life at home, work, or community events such as sports. It is how leadership is defined and the style with which one leads that may vary. Taking a closer look at leadership was made possible after interviewing two women from different education backgrounds and career paths. The information shared from these women on leadership was insightful and provided similar yet different responses on how they lead. This reflection will pull from an educational leader, Nanci Dauwen, (i.e. teacher of the year) at Sheyenne High School and community leader Heather Brandt, a social worker who holds the position of program director at Centre Inc. Additionally one will

As a college student one is longing for the day they get their degree and start their career. A career for me is something I have worked so hard to obtain. When asked the question “What role do you want your work to occupy in your life?” my answer is simple. I want my career to allow me to provide for my family, and be something that I am proud of. My career will be something that I am proud of because it took me so much schooling and hard work to obtain it. I selected my career path because of the many opportunities it has to offer. These opportunities come with great pay, with the pay that I receive I will be able to support my family comfortably. They won’t have to worry about not affording college, or any other financial stress. Throughout my career there will also be many opportunities to move up, however, no matter how much I move up, I don’t want it to change the type of person that I am. I want to remain the same humble, hard-working employee that I was when I first started.

Over the course of the last six months I held two leadership positions; the leadership positions that I chose to complete over the summer helped me complete my peer leadership pathway. I initially started out the spring semester as an anatomy teaching assistant, and decided to continue my preceptorship into the summer. Once the summer semester came to an end I began working at Club Sci-Kidz, a STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) summer camp for children ages 4-15 in the greater Richmond area. While I was working I tried to utilize the leadership concepts we learned about in LDRS 270, and apply them to my role as a teaching assistant and summer camp counselor in order to guide my students. In addition I also, ended each role this summer by reflecting on the leadership I was under by referencing Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.

With a million ideas racing continuously over and over in my head, once again like many times before, my struggle would present itself of not being able to write those ideas down on paper. Years of nursing experience, and more recently managing the nursing informatics department, carrying out ideas that would advance the flow of information and improve processes came so easy for me; yet it was so difficult to present this in writing to the leadership group in our facility. To confidently complete a walk through in each department in our hospital with the leadership, verbalizing the changes that would take place was second nature for me. This walk through demonstrated how the changes would improve not only the flow of information but also bridge each department to function in unity. Understanding what needed to take place and following through bringing about positive changes I was comfortable in performing, however, expressing this in written format was something I needed to development considering my position as manager of my department. To receive approval on any request for change, we were required to write our proposal as a professional improvement (PI) project. The proposal would include, the reason for the change, objectives, stakeholders involved, and set a timeline with target end date. The day would come when I would begin my literacy development journey. Writing a professional improvement proposal is one of the most important moments in my literacy development

They are the first point of contact for all of our patrons; we do over 300 events a year, many of them with over 200 guests. My employees are aware that they are representatives of the values and mission of the college and that if they disrespect a patron they are placing the whole organization in a bad light. They are also aware that they are one of the main reasons why we hold a great reputation around campus and in the surrounding communities. They are the ones who are making sure our patrons have a great experience when in our care and they are also in charge of making sure every patron arrives and leaves safely when attending our events. They play a very important role within our organization and without them, we would not be able to do what we do.

Leaders engage in several tasks and skills that help define them as leaders. By striving to improve those skills I have learned through this class that it is not easy, there is more to being a leader than just leading; it is also following. I started spending a few hours each day at work on staffing schedules and going over that schedule with the Vice President and staff to make sure that everyone agrees on, instead of trying to do it all in one day. Participating more in the weekly leadership meeting to help solve department problems is something I have started doing, asking for assistance, instead of stating that everything is fine in the nursing department. So by empowering myself and others, I have gained more control at solving problems with the help of others.