Personal Statement: Leadership For The Future

I started out as a student-athlete in which I depicted great leadership skills and positive role model qualities such as diligence, enthusiasm, and passion for the sport. Hence, after my first year of college, I was named the team captain. I worked closely with the coaches, helped to resolve team conflicts, established the tone for practice, and modeled responsibility, decision-making, and a strong work ethic. I also promoted a positive attitude and team interactions, and encouraged and supported all of my teammates. Throughout my experience as team captain, I showed mental toughness by remaining confident and focus, and respond to individual and team mistakes in an appropriate manner.

A true leader stands high on on the pillars of success: dedication, servitude, respectability, and honesty. The mark of a fulfilled life is not one who has collected many awards, not one who has an insurmountable amount of money and fame, it is one who has touched the most souls in his journey of life. A leader destined for greatness will touch many people along their journey to the top. In my short years on this Earth I have made it my mission from the start to leave a lasting impact on everyone I come in contact with and as a student of Howard University I will continue my mission without fault. From birth my parents noticed I had an insatiable thirst for knowledge, a heart of gold and an unconquerable ability to lead. In the 5th grade I was awarded the

First, about my past leadership skills were understanding and gaining knowledge from people. When I was a child, I would always look up to my father and mother as role models to help lead a family together. Both of my parents gave me positive reinforcement in school and out of school so I can be successful in life. I have also taken an interest in

This week explored and learned that there are desirable leadership traits to acquire, that becoming a leader can be a conscious process and that being a leader also means to owe respect and have a responsibility to others.

As an introvert, I never believed that leadership would be my cup of tea. Quiet, observant, soft-spoken. Those are not the traits of a leader...or so I thought. Then, I journeyed to Europe for 20 days with People to People to become a Student Ambassador. Meeting a Parliament member in England and representing The United States of America to a group of German students opened my eyes to the world of leadership and showed me how capable of leading I truly was. Entering my sophomore year of high school, I was selected to be a National Honor Society Member, the Vice President of the Beta Club, and a member of the Tri-M Music Honor Society. While all of the leadership positions I’ve experienced have been extraordinary and eye opening, the most significant

I realized that I have very strong leadership skills and qualities. Some of these leadership qualities include the confidence I portray to the people I lead and the confidence and reassurance I instill in them. Going alongside this quality is my ability to create personal connections with various people which helps me gain their trust which in turn allows them to open up to me giving me a chance to help them better. An additional leadership quality would be my ability to think on my feet in a stressful and time sensitive situation and come up with a quick solution. Having my strengths be leadership qualities will help me in my career of being a physical therapist because it will give me the respect and authority from my patients along with making sure all of my patients feel safe and happy. This is important in a physical therapist because when a patient goes to see a physical therapist they will be more inclined to listen to the physical therapist’s advice if the physical therapist gives that advisement in a calm and confident tone which will reassure the patient that the physical therapist knows what he/she is doing. In contrast, if the physical therapist shows a lack of confidence and talks in a faltering tone, then the patients will be wearisome in the advice they were given and be less likely to follow them. A similar concept for being able to make personal connections with the patients because the ability to make personal connections with my patients will make them feel more comfortable and give them the ability to be able to share with me stories and such so that they will be more honest when I ask them questions about diets and if they have been following the suggested regimen. Having these leadership skills as my strength is very reassuring to me because I was able to see that physical therapy was

I am seeking admission to Concordia University-Chicago’s Educational Leadership Doctoral program. Currently I am an Instructional Leader with the Rockford Public School District. I would like to pursue a Doctorate degree in Educational Leadership to further my knowledge of the required leadership traits, essential skills and educational systems, practices and laws so that I may ultimately become a contributing member of a school district’s administrative cabinet.

The most influential leadership experience that I participated in was being on the Riverbend Retreat Camp Program Team. The Program Team was established to promote team spirit for kids at camp by leading music, team games, and team cheers. The Program Team’s goal was to inspire kids to pour their hearts into everything that they did. For the first couple of days, I lived and breathed team spirit. I was a green team leader; therefore, I was dressed in all green clothes, covered in green face paint, and I even wore a green tutu the size of a barrel. I shouted team chants whenever I had the chance, I slapped high-fives to the kids on my team, and I led

Is a leader as defined in the Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary, merely one who leads - synonymous with a boss? Or something more? I believe that a leader is much more than that and can be defined in any number of ways. In attempting to define a leader personally, I will use both myself and others as examples.

My Mission Statement as a leader: Develop my Soldiers to have trust in me, as well as

Leadership; a trait that's been practiced for generations, creating a foundation where anyone can take action and create a plan or idea that can help our society's wellbeing, even if nothing is given in return. However leadership is not a skill that is perfected within a single night, on the other hand it's a trait that is gained throughout time. Being that, when I first began high school I never thought that I would be able to exhibit this vigorous position. I am usually the quite kid in the corner who never speaks and someone who is always shy to be in front of a big crowd. But it all took a turn when I was given the opportunity to become part of the certified nursing assistant (CNA) program at school, Secretary of Flag club, and take part

According to Hans Urs von Balthasar “a vocation is something lived, something enacted and a concrete life story” (Contino, 2004, p. 85). My vocational life story has developed over the past forty years with my first job at twelve babysitting six children to where I stand today teaching home economics at Chowchilla high school. “I build my own life story through the decisions of projects I undertake” and the choices I have made regarding my career path (Contino, 2004, p. 85). Someone looking from the outside at my wandering path might believe of my career changes seem a bit radical. Moving bicoastal, leaving a stable career of twenty five plus years to go back to college, take a pay cut and joining the unstable labor market of Home

As I look through my personal believes in order to explain my desire to be a future administrator, I became with the conclusion that I have a heart of serving. A good school administrator has to be more than an administrator, a leader or even more, a servant of a vision. A Leader, has to be the advocacy for many students and other colleges, and I want to be an advocate for them. As a fourth grade teacher who is directly involved in the academic development and growth of young children, I have become acutely aware of the ideal type of learning environment that should be provided to both students and teachers in the school setting. In adopting a broad perspective of the school situation, which takes into account

Before beginning this semester at Southeastern, I didn’t see myself as a leader. To be honest, I only chose to major in Organizational Leadership just for a fast pass to graduation. But throughout this semester I have learn a tremendous amount about what being an effective leader means and what it entails. Along with leadership, I have also learned about what it means to work in a team and grow as a follower. From the self-assessments and class activities my perspective on what type of leader and follower I am has become even more clear throughout this course.

During the last six weeks, I have learned a lot about the true meaning of a good leader. The discussions have helped me identify what my strengths are and what are the areas that I need to improve on. Although, I have been in management roles, I would not identify myself yet as a leader. I am a very result driven individual which is strength of mine, but that can also lead me to be desensitized to other’s emotions or challenges they might be facing. Throughout the course, I have also come to realize that I have limited self-awareness. On the contrary, one of my strengths is my social awareness. I have the ability to go into social or networking events and pick up on emotions, or facial expressing to understand the overall mood of that environment. To be socially aware is particularly beneficial because, I can find common ground with anyone I meet to initiate conversation. Therefore, when I see that person again, I can make those personal connections. Another one of my strengths is the ability to look at a current process and streamline it to a leaner, more effective and efficient way. During the last several years I have been hired to be the visionary of new divisions and to implement processes that would support the company’s vision and mission while still driving results. My values are what contribute to the success I have been able to achieve over the years, however. My resilience and work ethic towards my job shows through in the