The Cohort Dauntless

It’s about knowing your team and yourself, and doing your best job setting both up for success. I demonstrate leadership in One Act Play, FFA CDEs, Spanish Club, and so forth. In One Act Play, as a sound technician, I contribute suggestions that could improve the aspects of the play from my point of view and share my views to the other technician members. As a technician team, we depend on each other and to be efficient in all tasks undertaken during the play. In reward, we placed as an alternate one act play and one of the technician members placed as an outstanding crew member. In FFA CDEs, we work together as a team as well. I demonstrate leadership by applying my knowledge and solving problems with my teammates. We diligently pursue for excellence in our competitions and work together to resolve questions. In reward, I was rewarded with my Green-Hand FFA Degree in grade 9. In Spanish Club, I demonstrate leadership by inspiring others and myself to do chariable related work in the community. For example, over the Christmas break we visited the White Hall Nursing Home and visited the elderly. We had great conversation and had a great time there. Good leadership descends from character which is based on truth and

The leader must be sure to take the group dynamics into consideration. It is important to make everyone involved feel that their needs are important. For the project to be a success, everyone participating must feel as if they are contributing and that they are being valued equally.

The key to all of teamwork, leading, and following is adhering to the instructions of those appointed over you which brings me to my next point. As soldiers we are drilled almost everyday to listen to commanders, NCO's and basically everyone higher in rank than us or in some cases people that have more time in service. We are taught discipline from day one in basic training when we hit the ground the first time doing pushups to the last right face in the last ceremony before we see our families. Discipline is crucial to following orders effectively, without it soldiers would not react fast enough to what is being said or would simply not care enough about the task at hand to perform it, weakening the team it

During my sophomore year especially, I did my best to be a leader in my definition: dedicated, helpful, and authentic as a person. In our band, I was the leader for the twenty-odd flutes we had in our section. As expected of an officer throughout the marching season, I helped

Trying to find balance between those two, maintaining my ability to perform and lead others, and effectively getting things done was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done in life. Having the pressure put on myself daily gave me insight into the future. Through the small productive task the band was taking daily I could see problem spots or potential unproductive actions quickly and maintain progress. At home, when practice was over, I would research, study, and read all about leadership skills as well as personal relations. I learned from many of peers that a leader even with great skill will accomplish nothing if they don’t learn to respect, inspire, and influence those around them. Having the built reference experiences and seeing many different approaches of leadership I cherished every single principal I was able to learn. In the end, I did not become the perfect leader or the leader with the most talent, but I was able to empower my peers to push through the pain of the season and influence them to stick to the repetition need to build a great skill. The band finished third place overall becoming bronze medalist in Class 5A but won first place in the music category. This is the best the band has ever been and the highest place the band has finished in. My hopes and dreams for the members in band after this year is to continue to grow and perform to the best of their ability. I valued everything I was able to take

I led my group in meetings, activities, and I helped any of the members of the group if they needed it. Last year during track season, I helped the throwing coach teach new throwers and refresh experienced throwers. Many of my peers looked to me as leader to help them learn how to do the best they

Within the school and community, I demonstrate many qualities of leadership. To help promote school activities, last winter and spring I participated in the production of the musical by set painting. I spent time after school, during the weekend, and during study halls to paint the set so it was ready by march. I hope to

As a child, I never considered myself the leader type. I was the youngest, not only of my immediate family, but of my entire extended family as well, and to top it all off, I was quite shy. I was content with remaining this way and did so for many years. At the age of ten, my family moved to a different state which only increased my timidity. Inserting myself into new communities was difficult and I tried my hardest to remain in the background. One of these new communities was a local 4-H club—I did not know it at the time, but involvement in this organization would play a large role in shaping my leadership skills. My club, Rock Valley 4-H, was a fairly small group, but still large enough to make me nervous when it came to taking leadership positions. After a couple years of involvement, I found myself elected to the position of Secretary. As such, I was expected to sit up front at the officer’s table, record minutes, write meeting reports, and read those reports aloud at the next month’s meeting. When I first began my secretarial duties, I had my mother request that I be able to sit amongst the crowd to record minutes and that my reports be printed in the agenda. Contrast this with a few years later, where I was the President of the club, calmly and confidently presiding over meetings.

There isn’t a day in my classroom where I can put down the leader hat, there would be nothing but chaos. I have to be organized with the plan, I need to corral students as I did my family and friends. Without my command of the room and agenda the kids would be lost. When a sub is in my room, despite all the detailed instructions, my students feel lost. They are very happy to have the leader back to let them know what to do. Expectation surrounds me.

Before we look at any issue, any good psychologist will first evaluate their own bias. Although it is impossible to eliminate bias from any situation, it is important to, at the very least, identify the source of said bias. So before this essay considers the question of millennials in the workplace, let it first be known that the authors are, if not millennials, riding very closely behind millennials’ coattails.

I scored an eighty-seven (87) on the How Good Are Your Leadership Skills? Self-assessment quiz, which rated my skills as excellent. This score was not surprising to me because I’ve worked hard to become the best leader possible, and leading people is something I enjoy. Motivating people to achieve or surpass a particular goal is rewarding to me.

Out of all the extra circulars that I have participated in being in charge of props for my high school's musical rendition of "The Wizard of Oz" impacted how I viewed myself as a person and a leader. This year was the first year I took part in the backstage for a production, in addition the teachers in charge of the musical had not been in charge of a high school production. As time grew closer to the show the backstage was far behind, due to the fact the new speech teacher was not giving the stage crew any directions and was solely focusing on the show music and acting in the show. Eventually, I was forced to intervene. Many of times I confronted the speech teacher and stood in the way of her running off and getting distracted, it was necessary

An enthusiastic yes when something was done correctly, no matter how many times it took. Saying try again instead of flat out saying no, that’s wrong. Little things over the course of a few weeks made a huge difference in the amount of effort each one of my teammates put into accomplishing tasks. After a few weeks of teaching the others and getting to know one another we were all working together as a team. All the effort paid off when we got our first group crime scene grade back and the score was one hundred and eight out of one hundred and twenty points. Morality shot up and the group is more determined than ever to get an even higher grade on this up coming crime

I would remind my group when there was a deadline, when we were falling behind, and I would do all the things I could that need to be done. I was the one who made the outline for the website, and who set up everything so it was easily accessible for a user of our website (pages, links etc.). My group mates did demonstrate amazing leadership abilities in their own way. Ingrid kept a positive, uplifting attitude throughout the whole project, and Bri kept us realistic about our goals and our final product. This was the first project I’ve done in a really long time, where I felt like the weight of it was mostly on my shoulders. I thought it was a good wakeup call because I’m not a natural born leader, but I was able to utilize the skills that I have in order to keep the project going, and my group on task. My group needed someone to help guide them, so that is what I did.

I also believe that an effective leader plays a significant role in promoting and molding individuals’ readiness as it relates to motivation and commitment. As such, I developed my leadership assessment with these points in mind. The assessment focuses on 14 attributes that I believe are important not only for a leader to be successful within the parameters of the SLT, but for most any leadership model adopted by a successful leader in the modern business environment. The assessment was completed by Bobby, my manager of nearly six years, and by Katrina, my highest-ranking direct report of nearly four years. Each was asked to assign a candid rating to each attribute using a one-to-ten (worst-to-best) scale as well as to make notes or offer any suggestions so that I may incorporate it into my leadership style in an effort to improve the areas of weakness and become a better leader. In addition, I did a self-assessment using the same criteria. It should be noted that while Bobby offered both a ranking and narrative feedback, Katrina completed the assessment using the numerical ranking only. The results were consistent in some areas and mixed in others, but revealed some valuable information that I can use not only within the context of this course, but also as my career is better defined over time.