Personal Narrative: Division Leader

I am working at Migrant Education which is a federally funded program that supplements educational support services for migratory children. For this summer, Migrant Education has a summer school program for pre-school, pre-K, kindergarten, elementary, and high school students. To be honest, I was not too excited when I got an e-mail told me that I will be working with kids. When my supervisor asked me, I told her that I want to work with pre-K students. I thought it would be better not to work with the older students, because I am an ill-tempered kind of person. Just after my second day, I realized I was wrong. The little kids, they are very unpredictable. Some of them are nice, some of them are very shy, and some of them are….. recalcitrant.

She was confused as to why we did not have our regular meeting prior to class. I was surprised by her inquiry since we all agreed upon a rescheduled meeting. I reminded her of our group’s decision but she believed there was an additional meeting on Thursday as well. She continued to question me as to why we did not attend for our assumed Thursday meeting. Her tone of voice subsequently became angry, as she directed her frustration towards me. I felt that she was blaming me for not only my absence, but also for the remaining members. It seemed unfair that she would only voice her concerns to me and did not question the other members who later arrived in the room. As a result of her actions, I found it difficult to remain calm when speaking to her. When she continued to raise her voice at me, I started to become irritated. I felt that she was treating me in a disrespectful manner. I raised my own voice in retaliation, which turned our conversation into an argument. Our increased volume became loud enough where it gained the attention of students in the class. I found it embarrassing for others to witness an altercation between a group member and myself. As a result, I lowered my voice in hopes to avoid greater attention. This helped end the argument a few seconds before the start of class. As the argument came to an end with this particular group member, I found myself reflecting on the incident. I was astonished with the

I also stated that there was a volunteer present at my post while I was away. He then asked (very aggressively) "Why would you tell him (Sam) when I (Daniel) am here?" I explained that because David was not scheduled; I told Samuel Thurmond who is my lead. I added that David is who I directly report according to David, my offer letter and paperwork. I also explained to him that I did not know he was still here and that I did not know I was to report to him with two leads (Samuel Thurmond and Kelvin Hollis) present. He asked me why I came to him earlier that day then. I replied, "because David was not here." Daniel says "Great... I just wanted you to confirm that you left your post without permission." He storms out of the room and is now on the ramp of the back

their Service Plans and that we should be in contact with the JPO’s at least, once a month, and I have been complying with such guidelines. However, Mr. Rick, did not ask, if I had called Derron’s JPO, although his mother called minutes later after I returned to administration and

I live in a small town on a small island where most people are of European descent. However, what we lack in cultural differences, we make up with different personalities.Being able to work with people becomes an important lesson. As a leader in band and Key Club I learned important lessons in dealing with different people and how to handle situations in a mature manner and with a calm head. My Junior year I was elected to take on the position of section leader taking charge of the flutes in my band. Many people were very happy than I had gotten the position, I had already taken on leadership roles in the past, but the only Senior in the group felt that it not fair that she had not been given the role. After several months of trying to make

1) Leadership Identity a) The gifts, motives, role, likes and dislikes as a religious leader after serving in my supervised ministry setting are vast due to having two different settings in which I served. The first half was as a spiritual leader within a role of chaplaincy at Morristown Medical Center. The other half of the year was in my role of Local Licensed Associate Pastor which was appointed to me by the Bishop of the Greater New Jersey Conference. Each of the positions I held had both positive and negative experiences. I can honestly say I have learned something from all of them.

Competency 2: Engage Diversity and Difference in Practice Last Thursday was my first day of facilitating a class. In this case it was a citizenship class, I had 22 adult students. I presented myself as the facilitator and explained to them my role. I guess they didn't expect much of me,

I play the alto saxophone in the Keller High School Band. My junior year, I applied to be a part of the leadership team for this program. I had very high hopes of getting the position of a section leader. When results came out, I had been placed on the

During my first quarter of running start, I took intro to sociology and I had a major midterm project. When we were aquatinted with our members I took initiative to make sure we could all communicate and work online to reduce the number of times we needed to meet so

On Friday, September 22nd, the students were informed that they were about to take a Reading test and were instructed to begin playing games on the computer after they completed their test. By giving the kids this instruction, it is expected that at least one student will want to play games first rather than take the test. Anthony, a student in Mr. Conways class, promptly moved to the computers and started playing the game they were instructed to play after the test. I then approached Anthony and informed him that he is only allowed to play on the computer if he finished his test. He refused to move and then I decided to have him take the test in front of the computer. Around ten minutes later, another student ( that Anthony constantly bullies)

When hearing about the opportunity for Front Line Team Leader position, I was extremely excited. To put it another way, it was a door that opened out of nowhere, but one I'm happy to seek. Since joining IKEA the culture is a concept you become engrossed with following. Doing it

I was in Plant City and Tampa office yesterday to talk to DVOPs and VAWS. It was a good visit, per all present team members; however, a Plant City VAWS was at the interview and was not present. I spoke with DVOPs to assess the situation accrued day earlier.

How are things going? I see that life has been exciting for you these past few months, that's is so great to see! I want to follow up with you on a conversation we had a few months back when I invited you to a Challenge Group, I can't remember where we exactly left the conversation, I do remember you wanted to lose some fat, get toned, and be healthier in general. I am leading a Challenge Group that starts in February and wanted to see if you, or anyone you know, might be interested in joining. I'm specifically looking for ladies that want to get started losing weight over 30 days.

At the beginning of the summer I got a job as a camp counselor at the YMCA. Because I was so new to the job I wasn’t ready to lead big groups of kids. Most of my other co-workers had been there for several years and had lots of experience.

After their incident nothing seemed fairer. After this incident some of the Negatives that came out of it were the fact that I had lost all respect for E’s management style. He could not put trust in his staff nor find a proper way of communicating with them. Another Negative out come was that it started to create a ripple effect within the service staff. Each week another person would have a run in with E. Positive out comes that came with this Conflict with me and E was that after I stood my ground with E, he never stepped on my feet again. I showed him in that time that I was not going to stand for his immaturity and childish game. As well it made the team as a whole look at what the work dynamic was like during E’s time managing. This conflict ended up causing the team to have a meeting about customer satisfaction and proper procedure on fixing food orders.