21 Irrefutable Laws Of Leadership Personal Statement

I agree with you as a leader it is important to recognize where we are and where we want to go. The knowledge that I have acquired from this course has helped to guide me in the right direction. I feel confident leading others and hope to inspire them. However, I understand that I need to be able to reflect on my current leadership style and make the necessary changes. One change that I plan to implement as I stated on my journal is servant leadership which encourages “leaders be attentive to the concerns of their followers and nurture them” (Northouse, 2013, p. 219). Also, I plan to implement situational leadership. I understand that I should base my conduct on the demands of a particular situation. I learned that if I aspire

I have learned a great deal from this class, and through the semester, my ideas of leadership have changed. I now can confidently say that my definition of a leader is someone who embraces diversity, is a team player, a manager and is brave. Embracing diversity is to embrace the ideas and opinions of others and even accepting them. Being a team player requires cooperation, communication, listening and setting an example. A leader should be well versed in conflict as well as time management, and a leader must trust their team enough to take a leap of faith every now and

Over the last ten months, I have gotten the chance to uncover the type of leader, learner, and listener I am. I have learned that I typically learn better in a kinesthetic or sequential learning environment. I have learned that I tend to lead by ordering, and that I need to learn to lead by example. Lastly, I have learned that I am a great listener when I choose to be. Throughout all of this learning, I have grown. I have discovered my strengths and weaknesses, and learned what I need to do to to maintain and fix them. I have become a more

Over the course of this semester, I have become more self-aware of how leadership plays a crucial role in my life. I learned this through a variety of class activities, discussions, assignments, and our group project. Because of all of this, I have learned more about how I conceptualize leadership, and what employers might look for in new employees. Through this class I have grown intellectually and as a person. In the future, these skills I acquired will effortlessly transfer into the workplace after I graduate.

One of my strengths as a leader, is wanting to enlighten others, helping them to find their own spark and

What I learned most about myself is I have the ability to become a formal leader. In order to become a formal leader, I need to first work on developing my skills to being a better role model. I learned I am more of a transformational leader. A transformational leader uses a method to convert and transform people (Bowyer, 2015). As a transformational leader, I have the ability to motivate leaders of the future by researching ways to improve our practice skills using science-driven knowledge through a journal club and finding ways to gain continuing education units for licensure purpose. What I learn about myself and my leadership skill is, a key to being an exceptional leader in my place of employment, is to also be an exceptional employee.

The Personal Leadership in the University course has been very influential for me as it helped me have a better vision of what effective leadership is like. Coming into the classroom during the first day, I had no clue that I would eventually get out of my comfort zone and explain my life to 25 people whom I never met before. In the end, it was all worth it; I made new friends, and I learned that a strengthened community leads to strengthened leadership. I have friends outside of the class who took this course before, and they also say that this course helped change them. If one of my friends were to take this course during the spring and ask me what my favorite things were, I would say that one of them would be my journey presentation. I really got to enjoy sharing some of my personal memories as a child to the class, like how I had to move with my family several times before settling to Minnesota. It was a lot of fun hearing some of my peers sharing their memories as well. The presentations helped show that even if we were all brought up differently, we were still similar to each other. We are all young adults in college who want to strive for success now and in the future. The other task that I enjoyed in class was the one where the stuffed animal was on top of the sheet and we all had to flip the sheet over without dropping or touching the animal. It was very challenging and fun, but it really taught us that collaboration is needed for strong leadership. We talked to

Ch 7: Agree: “Leaders learn by leading, and they learn best by leading in the face of obstacles” (p.138). Rationale: I agree with this statement as we only learn when we actually get do something or experience it. You cannot learn things just by reading or achieve leadership skills by just listening to the lectures. “You can’t learn it by reading up on it, you’ve got to do it” (p.138).Yes, reading and listening to the lectures may help us understand the concept of leadership skills, but you actually need to lead to become an effective leader. For an example, while I was in nursing school I always read books and notes that helped me become an effective nursing student, but I became an effective nurse once I faced many obstacles on the floor. At the long term facilities nurses are not just the nurses, they are also the leaders, so to become an effective leader I learned to lead from hardships I faced on the floor such as short staffing, trying to solve conflict between the CNA’s, managing patient assignments for the CNA’s etc. The “wisdom is gained through pain and reflection” (p.137). Our hardships and past experiences make us the people we are and without these two things we would not learn the lifetime lessons. Disagree: “The more experience and the more tests you survive, the more apt you are to be a good leader (p.138).” Rationale: I disagree with this statement because I know people who have much more experience than I do and they still tend to fail in many things. Many

Prior to starting Marist, my leadership skills were not developed. With the cognitive tools that Marist is providing me with, I am now on my way to becoming a transformational leader. The author of The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader, John C. Maxwell, says transformational leadership can be learned if one practices it as a daily process. He says one needs to have traits correlating to commitment, determination,

It is hard to quantify what I have learned in the semester of Leadership because the courses focus was not about memorizing data, but rather learning about having the will to lead and finding the courage to make it happen. A majority of the information I learned from this course came from learning about myself. Through readings, course activities, and various projects, I learned what makes a great leader, but more importantly what traits I possess that will make me a great leader. In order to be a great leader, one must have an understanding of what leadership is. Leadership is a social influence (Stogdill, p. 25). It means leaving a mark. It is initiating and guiding, and the result is change. Leading is the result of your passion coming to life.

In my first semester at Baylor I was forced to quickly adapt to both the pace of college classes and the demands of LEAD. My freshman year in LEAD fundamentally changed my view of leadership, specifically how I could be a leader in situations that I hadn’t been before. Coming into college my previous leadership experience was limited to being the captain of the tennis team at my high school and the oldest of seven in my family. These roles were similar in that because I had the most authority, based on skill for the tennis team and seniority over my siblings, I felt comfortable in a leadership position. I quickly learned as part of the LEAD program and in my first leadership course, Introduction to Leadership, that being a leader is much more than being

Heading into this course, I wasn’t exactly sure what it was about. Aside from reading the description on the KU website, I had no idea what to expect. I thought it would be centered around what would make a good leader, and the things I should do to achieve this. After the first couple weeks, I finally grasped the purpose of this class, and slowly started to work what I was learning into my day to day life. Through this class I have been able to identify what adaptive leadership is and how to apply it to my day to day task as well as how to work within the disequilibrium. I was also given the opportunity to reflect on what I was learning, through journals and amongst my peers through discussion boards, and how I was using my knowledge to identify different challenges I was facing in my life.

When this class started I had really never given much thought to my leadership style. What I have discovered is that I have the ability to be a good leader. As I completed the questionnaires and first review the results, I was somewhat surprised by what my strengths and weaknesses were and how I would be as a leader. Being at the end of this course, I can visualize myself as a leader now that I know I have good leader qualities. Upon analyzing the answers of the three people I interviewed, two reoccurring themes that kept coming up were: 1) Once I set a goal, I keep with it until the job is done completed; 2) I am a good at bringing people together for a common good cause. In analyzing the questionnaires, I definitely need to learn to deal more professionally in a conflict situation with someone I do not like.

While we found that the majority of respondents believed that a class could be beneficial, the most prevalent concern is that leadership is something that cannot be taught in the classroom. This might lead to a decrease in interest. We disagree with this idea; however, we have identified that the class must be structured in a way that explicitly shows students how they can benefit from the class. In order to maximize interest and utility in the class, it should be structured in an interactive way. We will explain this further below in our

My greatest expectation from this class was to be able to develop myself both professionally and personally. Before I ever started taking classes in Leadership Studies, there was so much I didn’t know about myself. I was always shy and thought of myself as more of a follower than a leader. Ever since I started taking these leadership courses, I have learned that I can be both a follower and a leader, depending on the situation. This class, I hoped, would further educate me not only in more about leadership, but more about myself and who I could be. Along with what I’ve learned about myself, in this final reflection paper, I will also explain what really worked for me in this specific course, new knowledge that I have