The Importance of Leadership Essay

Firstly, in my Academic Career, I have held a multitude of leadership roles. My sophomore year , I was a class representative for Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America, commonly known as FCCLA. It was my duty to alert members and keep them up to date regarding meetings and activities. As a representative of FCCLA, I learned how to work as a unit leader and a team member.That same school year, I ran for the district office of secretary for FCCLA. The nomination and election process, gave me the opportunity to grow and nurture my leadership abilities. It was eminently challenging; but I learned the importance of discipline and hard work. I accomplished my goal and was nominated Secretary for FCCLA. This office allowed me to meet plenty

My community leadership has been based in and around my school. My leadership ranges from teaching a cosmetology course at my school to planning events. It has helped me manage my time, allow to learn how to research efficiently and has taught me how to better communicate with those around me. I have met new and exciting people and have been given opportunities i wouldn't have received had I not gone to the school i am at.

This semester I participated in a service learning partnership with two other students. Through the semester I spent a little over ten hours with each of my partners. Most of the activities we participated in were activities in which we were able to get to know one other on more of a personal level. The thing that made this partnership interesting was the fact we were all from different parts of the world. Which means the way we had grown up was very different for each of us.

One of the first real leadership positions I ever had at my school was in the Hillcrest Hospital Helpers Club. I became a member my first year at Hillcrest as a sophomore and became immediately interested in their purpose as a school club. While it may sound cliché, the members of the club, and especially the leaders, wanted to make a difference through their service. We would at least monthly participate in creating art crafts and activities for the children at Shriner’s Hospital and then deliver it to them. While it may not seem much to the average person, the happiness on the children’s faces was worth all of our efforts and more.

My own unique leadership experiences have shaped me over the years. Peer leadership and the Chick-fil-a Leadership Academy have offered me a wide variety of unique leadership experiences. I have learned so much from organizing charitable events, to teaching social skills to autistic and other special needs middle-schoolers and the ABCs and 123s to kindergartners. As a role as Varsity lacrosse captain allows me to mentor and share my experiences with other players. Last year, my advice helped a player decide not to quit the team.

Throughout my Senior Capstone project, I have learned many things about myself and the people that I worked with to make my project a success. Working with the elderly residents at the assisted living facility opened my eyes and I viewed things with a different perspective. Going into the project, I did not know what to expect with the residents, but towards the end, the residents knew me so well and had inspired. My favorite part about this project was the opportunity to interact with new people and know what they live their daily lives like. Being able to be around them gave me the chance to talk and listen to stories about their lives. They were also welcoming to any stories that I could relate to and always listened intently to my stories.

When my acceptance came in I realized that I am a strong leader with the determination to help others. As a result, I worked harder than ever before to become a leader I can be proud of. The summer before my junior year I attended a state leadership camp at the one and only Colorado State University. Being a second year camper, I assumed my experiences would be much like my first year there, educational but lacking impact. I couldn’t have been more incorrect. My adult counselor at the camp, Beth Carson, changed my outlook on my life. I realized that I will never influence the world by not taking risks. So, I ran to be one of the three members on the Colorado State Student Leadership Executive Board. It’s crazy that the experiences within four days had the power to turn all my failures into successes. I learned one of the greatest lessons that life can teach you, one can’t succeed if one doesn’t try. I’ve been able to come to the realization that it doesn't matter if you make mistakes, it matters how you continue on from those

In high school I was always the student going “above and beyond” everyone else. In many situations I would take the initiative to “super head” projects and make sure the task given was being done the correct way. At the high school I attended there were not many students like myself. Other students were focused on being in the “in crowd”, this left me feeling alone and not having anyone to relate to. When I stepped foot on Hampton University’s campus and saw the Student Leaders during New Student Orientation Week, I immediately knew that I wanted to be apart of the organization. Within the students I saw qualities that I also embodied, I also saw a group of hardworking students who are ready to succeed and take on the world. If I was accepted into The Greer Dawson Wilson Student Leadership Training Program (SLP), I would automatically grow as a person. I have already grown during SLP week, by learning that it is okay to come out of out of my comfort zone. Being apart of the Student Leadership Program would help me strengthen the leadership skills that I already

For the entirety of my high school career, I have been a student in the Leadership Center for the Sciences and Engineering (LCSE) held at Norview High School. Being enrolled in this specialty program has strengthened and pushed me academically, as a leader, with public speaking, and as a service worker. Specifically, LCSE has developed my leadership skills and allowed me to become a more service-oriented leader. In the first year of the program, students take Leadership Foundations where the basics of leadership and the history of great leaders are taught. Then, in Advanced Leadership students model leadership skills by hosting holiday gatherings, being counselors for the LCSE Summer Orientation Camp, and completing 200 volunteering hours.

When I was in middle school I was offered the opportunity to join a program called W,E,B (Where Everybody Belongs). It was a transition program for students entering middle school in order to help them feel as welcome as possible in a new school system and help them with tutoring during their first year. I didn’t see myself as a leader because I was an antisocial and close minded kid but when I was chosen to be apart of this program, it said that I demonstrated the attributes of a leader in some way. Myself and another student became mentors to a small group of kids we never met before and didn’t any clue where they came from. This experience had taught me a lot and has made me grow from a student into an inspirational leader that could an

With that being said, from my first experience on campus being Camp Leatherneck and every open door after that, I have taken every chance to developed as a leader, take in constructive criticism, and improve my leadership skills to best serve the campus in the best way possible. The most significant way I have use leadership to aid Western Illinois University student body is taking on major roles on campus that affects the study body directly. Fresh out of my freshmen year, I became involved in the orientation team which was one of the best decisions I made at Western. I got to be the first impression students seen when they came to Western. Being a member of the team developed my leadership qualities and my personal self. I realized that I was one person but the impact I carried impacted array of people around me. I knew after that summer that I could make the impossible possible. Shortly after, I become a Resident Assistant (RA) my sophomore year in the freshman residents halls in order to give incoming students the best experience I could provide. I knew the real impact happen where I was hands on a part of the structuring and building incoming students to be ready to survive there next four years in college. I still speak to over half of my residents and I know I did everything in my power to serve as an outstanding role model and lead by example from my fellow residents. I provide every opportunity and resource out there to them for their success in future years in college and I am more than certain they were grateful for

The spring of my junior year, I was asked to be a leader for Wyld Life, the middle school division of a Christian organization called Young Life. I lifted my head up from beneath the pile of homework I was drowning under, and despite not knowing how often I would be able to come to the surface, I said yes. I added it to the bottom of a list of priorities, placed

This course has taught me much more than just leadership. I've learned a bit more about my personallity, specifically how to embrace ceratin traits and how to work on others. This course also built a foundation to help be a more successful student at CSU-Global. When it comes to leadership, this course opened up my eyes on what it takes to be an effective leader. I'm now more motivated than ever to pursue my dream of becoming a leader within my company.

Over the course of my studies I feel I have grown as a teacher leader. I no longer take leadership opportunities for granted. The courses here at Lamar have shown me that no matter if the leadership opportunity is formal or informal it still can have an enormous impact on student success. I also attribute my growth to the additional

For the first eight hours of my service learning experience, I spent a day at the Boys and Girls Club. This club is an after-school and summer childcare program that serves youth in the 1st through 12th grade. During my volunteering, I worked with the elementary age group. I have never really worked in a setting with a bunch of kids, so I was a little nervous but also very excited to see what it all entailed. For the first half of the day, we spent time organizing and preparing for the annual Halloween party. This showed me just how much work it takes to put on an event like this and how orderly you need to be. For the second half of the day, I got to help with the games and to also play with the kids. During the Halloween party, they had very many activities for the kids to partake in and also had treats, prizes, and music. It was really awesome to see what the Boys and Girls Club does, and to see how many lives they impact on a daily basis. It takes a lot of staff and volunteers to put on an