What I Have The Opportunity For Accumulate Experiences From A Multifaceted Of Earlier Experiences

Leadership comes with great responsibility, I personally have never experience being a leader. However, I believe that I don’t need to be a leader to be successful, instead I am always willing to work hard with other people and achieve any goal as a whole(team). Although, I consider myself as a great problem solver, and also very responsible according to the effort I put in every little thing that I do. In the past, I have helped the leaders organize and help them to achieve a goal. I gave my hundred percent in anything I do.

Sports have always been a major aspect of my life. My passion stems from my own parents who played sports throughout their lives and encouraged their children to do so. Many of my earliest memories are of me watching my brother play little league baseball and wanting nothing more than to be on the field with him. This desire was what prompted me to sign up for softball. I have played softball since the 3rd grade. Although this may sound cliché, it really has taught me the importance of working as a team. One player cannot win the game, it takes the team to throw a runner out at first or sacrifice bunt in order to score a run. From a leadership perspective, I have learned that in order to be a good leader, you must lead by example first. It

Holding the position of captain has taught me important leadership roles as well as everyone else who holds a captain position. A leader learns to step up to better another player, to put their teammate before themselves. This role of leadership will follow a player for the rest of their lives and they won’t even realize how many people they will impact. Also, a player will learn to be dependent on their teammates. Athletic teams need a strong base to build on teamwork. One thing that aids in the formation of teamwork is team-bonding activities. Once teammates get to know one another they put more trust into one another, then a team starts to come together. This skill will be used all throughout adulthood because you will have to learn to communicate and depend on your colleagues. You also learn sportsmanship. One thing I have learned to have a positive attitude, even if something does not go your way. You learn to not take your ability to play the sport you love for granted. You learn to respect your coaches and referees because they are here for you. The positive attitude that you acquire changes the person you

There have also been people who have motivated me to be a leader, especially my high school orchestra director. At the end of my junior year, my director called me into his office and told me he would be moving me from the first violin section to the second violin section. He said he knew I was quiet in the back of the first violin section, but he could see I possessed the leadership skills necessary to sit in the front of the second violin section. This really motivated me to try and make him proud the next year at the front of the section. Many different aspects of my life have affected my leadership philosophy.

The path that lead me to choose Sport Management as a major began at a young age where I demonstrated my admiration for sports. I have been participating in sports my entire life and still do to this day. Unfortunately, my time as an athlete will eventually come to an end and I will need to find an occupation that I have passion for. I asked myself the question, “Why not continue my passion in sports”? Being able to work with sports, but not directly in the spotlight, as an athlete is something I would love to be apart of.

I firmly believe that the people i've surrounded myself with have helped me become the person I am today. I think that they have helped me become a leader in my own right and have pushed me to achieve reach my full potential. The passion that I have has forced me to be the leader i am in the sense that i push for the goals I know are reachable and it has also allowed me to be the leader that compromises when it comes to the people I work with. I’m adaptable, positive, and i maximize where and when I

My personal experiences of leadership started when I was younger, roughly 7 years old, I was elected the captain of my travel soccer team. At the time I didn’t think much of it, nor did I have any extra duties that I was explicitly told that I needed to perform. Later throughout the season, I started to notice my teammates mimicking my styles and techniques and I highly enjoyed this feeling of being looked up to. I didn 't realize until years after that the recognition and pride I felt was leadership. This privilege of being captain was the first time I had realized that people weren 't necessarily following my actions because I was extraordinarily skilled, but because I provided this role model status with my confidence and encouragement. Some of the most valuable leaderships traits that I acquired and fortified are:

As I was growing up, I naturally looked for ways to help my community. It was an concept that I was extremely fond and passionate about at an early age. Through this, leadership came easily and almost inherently. When high school came I emerged myself within the wide variety of activities. It was just an effortless tendency. I loved being involved, therefore I got myself involved. As a freshmen, I was at the bottom and I watched in amazement of how the upperclassmen led with such confidence and drive. I aspired to be like them one day. With this large desire to make my mark in my small community, I naturally took on leadership roles because I wanted to make an impact, a lasting impact. John Quincy Adams once said, “If your actions inspire others

Throughout the years, leadership has played a significant role in the world of athletics. Whether it is coming from a coach or a player, leadership is no doubt the most important role one can hold; leadership can make or break a team. John C. Maxwell put it clearly when he stated that “everything rises and falls on leadership”. When looking at leadership as it relates to sports one must first define leadership. Barrow (1977) defined leadership as “the behavioral process of influencing individuals and groups towards set goals” (p.232). This definition puts an emphasis on vision of a leader while it also highlights the importance of the interaction between the leader and the group members. Leaders play an important role in the success of the

It is difficult to write on a subject that is so intangible, yet prevalent and visible at the same time. I was always told growing up that I was a leader, but never quite grasped what that was supposed to mean. I always was taller than, and looked older than all of my peers growing up. While the medical reasons are tedious to explain, the impact this made on my development was fundamental to my personality. Growing up, I was always looked up to, both literally and figuratively. This helped build my conscientiousness and interpersonal skills required to be a leader. At the same time, I had many strong role models in my life who were positive influences in my development as a person and a leader. My father was a high school principal, and is now the superintendent of that district. He has very good ideals and skills that he has instilled in me as far as being a leader. These influences along with others have helped shape me into the leader I am today.

In my future career of being a sports doctor/trainer you need teamwork and leadership to be successful and be able to treat a patient. As a sports doctor you can’t just have one doctor doing a surgery by themselves, to treat a patient you need a whole team of doctors and different nurses to help the person. When you are a sports trainer you have a whole team of different trainers who are there to help you and you need leadership because you need someone to take control of the action or be the person to show the team how to take care of the problem.

The moments that shaped my lens through which leadership is pulled into focus are plentiful and occurred over time. The first, shared above, was being thrust into a leadership role, completely unprepared for the job. The next was my becoming a Coast Guard (CG) Boat Coxswain. This is a matter of great responsibility; CG asset, CG people, CG mission, all the responsibility of the coxswain. Amazingly, my coxswain certification was complete simultaneously with my undergraduate graduation. Consequently, becoming a teacher of science as a civilian job was the next leadership

Describe any leadership roles you have held in the past or any times you honed your leadership skills.

When Professor Lopez Littleton asked the class to delve inside of our minds, we took a variety of questionnaires about ourselves. One that stood out to me was the Locus of Control questionnaire. The very first two statements are leaders are born, not made and leaders are made, not born. I chose the second statement that leaders are made, not born. When I was younger, I was quite insecure with myself and I wasn’t much of a leader. Sure, everyone in the class always wanted to work with me because I received satisfying grades and I always prepared proficient work, but I didn’t guide people to greatness. I always felt like I was my own leader but I didn’t really have any followers. I was not born a leader, but I became a leader as I grew older. I absolutely love being a leader and I couldn’t imagine who I would be today if instead I was a follower. Being a leader has gotten me so far in life and continues to get me ahead every day. I have always been the leader when it comes to group projects and with school in general. I believe when there is turmoil, people always look to me for answers. If I am on an adventure, I love to be in the lead because it motivates me when I am motivating others. This happened in Brazil last summer when my boyfriend and I went on a hiking and mountain climbing excursion. As I was in the lead, and the group was falling behind, I cheered them on and encouraged the group to keep on. They highly appreciated my motivation and it made me feel great, too.

A part of my identity that I believe is necessary to know and understand about me is that I am a leader. To me leadership is doing what needs to be done and making sure it gets done, showing people the what the right decision and action to take is, and being someone that people respect, follow and trust. There are two ways a person can lead, by example and by showing people how the task at hand should be done and they follow. Also a leader is respected, with the ability to tell people what needs to get done. I exert both of these traits in multiple places in my life.