Introduction The Frontline documentary, “The Interrupters”, captures the heroic services that one organization, Ceasefire, provides in assisting individuals involved in inner city violence. Through mentorship and modeling, experienced “violence interrupters” are able to mediate and prevent violence from occurring within at risk communities. The documentary demonstrated the problems orbiting around inner city violence, prominently homicide. Furthermore, the film portrayed an effective solution to
Leadership is influencing and motivating others through inspiration, personal dedication to setting the example and followership while providing a clear vision for success. I often see true leadership in the way a person chooses to live his or her life. As a young man my elders raised and mentored me in many aspects including how to seek further enrichment of my personal leadership characteristics. During my Coast Guard career, I have appreciated many leaders who inspired me to reach high and settle
my academic societies I have demonstrated a growing record of accomplishments through increasing significant service roles from conference and paper reviewing to doctoral consortiums and committee work. Lately, these have primarily focused around mentorship and editorial roles (See C.V. for details). As discussed above, I have had the opportunity to mentor aspiring authors in both pedagogy and business ethics research through my editorial roles at the Journal of Management Education (JME), Business
1. Leadership is influencing and motivating others through inspiration, personal dedication to setting the example and followership while providing a clear vision for success. I often see true leadership in the way a person chooses to live his or her life. As a young man my elders raised and mentored me in many aspects including how to seek further enrichment of my personal leadership characteristics. During my Coast Guard career I have appreciated many leaders who inspired me to reach high and
to 29 years of age) who face multiple employment barriers are provided intensive support with this incentive, such as paid pre-employment training, job matching, job placements (financial incentives for both the participants and the employers), mentorship services, education, and work transitions supports (Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Development, “Youth
world wide for his works. If Picasso, one of the greatest artists of all time, was sufficiently taught through mentorship and through guiding rather than restraining, why is art not taught like this today? One movement aims to return to this style of teaching and poses a threat to the university style of teaching art. This movement, the alternative art school movement, offers students mentorship from current artists, freedom in creation, and low to no cost programs. It is exigent liberal arts colleges
1. The steps that I have begun to take and will continue to pursue is seeking knowledge, mentorship and guidance within the field and educational pathway. I will continue to meet with and interview facility managers of group homes and facilities targeting a diverse population to gain a well-rounded perspective. I will pursue a membership with Minnesota Association of Sober homes (MASH), NuWay, and Minnesota Recovery Connection to name a few. In addition, I will continue my steps of having a presence
Lack of Women in Leadership Positions: Possible Solutions to Problems in Lean In According to the American Progress website, only about 14.6% of executive officer positions are held by women. Sheryl Sandberg, an American technology executive and COO of Facebook, wrote a book titled Lean In where she explains the inequality that women face in the work force which can be the reason why women are not reaching these leadership positions. One of the problems that Sandberg writes about is relationship
advocacy mode of capacity development. The Ferguson article discussed the Social Enterprise Intervention (SEI) method. This intervention is preventative intervention utilized to provide homeless youth with vocation training, small business skills, mentorship and referrals to health and mental health services; this intervention seeks to build upon the strengths of these youth. The Nembhard article focused on
Although these current issues do not affect me directly I was quite excited to attend this specific session just because I grew up with other individuals who have been affected by this political problem. Walking into the room I noticed the chairs were arranged in small circles, we were meant to sit in a chair facing each other. What I enjoyed about the session that was ran by Steven Wang and Enrique Ramirez was the fact that we got share our opinions and stories. We talked about the effects depression