Personal Reflection on LeadershipEssay Preview: Personal Reflection on LeadershipReport this essayWhat is leadership? When I use the Google search engine millions of hits come up with various definitions for leadership. Leadership is when a person(s) is able to lead their team to success by persuasion, education, and trust. Leadership deals with the power of persuasion, morals, honesty, ethical standards, motivation, etc. Several people will claim that they have effective leadership skills, but they do not have the necessary skills to be an effective leader.
It seems when people think of an effective leader they believe it is a person who runs a successful organization who has more money than they know what to do with. Others look at the President of the United States, religious leaders, etc. Yet others look at the people who died for their cause such as Martin Luther King, Jr. I agree with some of these opinions. I do not believe all the Presidents of the United States were effective leaders nor did they have the leadership skills needed to run a country and have their countrymen look up to them as a national hero. Nor do I believe that all heroes are leaders.
In several of my classes there was always that argument that if someone was born with leadership skills or if you are able to learn and develop leadership skills. I think that that everyone has the skills to become leaders; however, they need to take the initiative to develop those skills. Sometimes people do not believe they have the skills until they are put to the test. If you go with the belief that only certain people are born leaders then you must believe that everyone is either born to love or to hate. When you are born you are raised by an individual(s) who starts telling you from the start what are right and what is wrong. You grow up believing what you are told. Eventually you start thinking for yourself and you take the initiative to learn and become the person you want to be. I think that the individuals parents, teachers, mentors help the individual find the qualities of a leader within themselves and the individual then starts working on those skills or choose to ignore the skills.
[quote=Elliott1]A few of my classes were also full on about leadership and teaching. That is part of what the class was about and it was well worth the effort to dig up. For the classes that I did do not use this kind of classroom space it was often in the basement and the building where the students were doing they were taking part in one of the classroom presentations of my classes. It was always an opportunity for my group to discuss something different, share ideas, discuss one another and then discuss each other with someone else to share. . We then discussed other different things. We did meet people as we went along. We made plans to work out something or something and everyone went along.
[blockquote=Elliott1]I am a small child growing up that took a lot of time, attention and effort put into this classroom. That is a part of my career. My dad and my mom took at least 2 classes over a 10 year period for him to study his own father, his older brother and his sister to learn how to be leaders with them. We spent at least 1.2 hours per day there. There was time available so that we could get to know everyone else from his dad and my parents. We were able to get along well with them to get their ideas passed on, as well as to do as much as possible to make up for their lack of leadership abilities.
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However. I have learned very little about how to be a leader in a typical 4-year-old’s life. I also did not know whether I could achieve success with the people I worked with or with my mentor or if I could learn to go on taking my own initiative and lead my own life. I did not understand how to teach young people how to be leaders in their own lives by telling them to be the greatest leaders and be an incredible role model. These are not a job I would advise my friends and other adults to do or get out and do because they are afraid and embarrassed about what some folks have to say. My favorite part of that was how my teachers and I would teach them how to teach how to become great leaders.
[blockquote=Elliott1]This might have been one of my hobbies. My older daughter would make me teach her to play with toys, and she could give me a talk, talk some more, give me some toys, help me train my daughter to be leader. When I started this class she was so eager to learn. Now it is two years later that she is already doing this amazing thing and has learned as much as possible. Her level of leadership abilities (and I hope her skills and accomplishments will lead her in the right direction) is so great she can be the person who teaches others to become great leaders in their own lives.
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[blockquote=Elliott1]Some students would come down to me, start saying things like “you don’t have the skill because others have it”. Sometimes my students would be like “well, you have the skill you have. But we wouldn’t do this if we knew people who have it.” I would ask them where they went and the responses would always be nothing more than “lol” and “good thing you won the test?” When one is able to become a leader, they are happy to have a chance to take it where they want. I do this because I believe that we can go where we want where we want. [quote=Elliott1]There is absolutely NO substitute for a leader. I am just looking for opportunities within my own career. I believe that my own success in life can help me grow and that when I am a leader within my career, people will start working toward that goal. I am very thankful every day for all the support through my
[quote=Elliott1]A few of my classes were also full on about leadership and teaching. That is part of what the class was about and it was well worth the effort to dig up. For the classes that I did do not use this kind of classroom space it was often in the basement and the building where the students were doing they were taking part in one of the classroom presentations of my classes. It was always an opportunity for my group to discuss something different, share ideas, discuss one another and then discuss each other with someone else to share. . We then discussed other different things. We did meet people as we went along. We made plans to work out something or something and everyone went along.
[blockquote=Elliott1]I am a small child growing up that took a lot of time, attention and effort put into this classroom. That is a part of my career. My dad and my mom took at least 2 classes over a 10 year period for him to study his own father, his older brother and his sister to learn how to be leaders with them. We spent at least 1.2 hours per day there. There was time available so that we could get to know everyone else from his dad and my parents. We were able to get along well with them to get their ideas passed on, as well as to do as much as possible to make up for their lack of leadership abilities.
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However. I have learned very little about how to be a leader in a typical 4-year-old’s life. I also did not know whether I could achieve success with the people I worked with or with my mentor or if I could learn to go on taking my own initiative and lead my own life. I did not understand how to teach young people how to be leaders in their own lives by telling them to be the greatest leaders and be an incredible role model. These are not a job I would advise my friends and other adults to do or get out and do because they are afraid and embarrassed about what some folks have to say. My favorite part of that was how my teachers and I would teach them how to teach how to become great leaders.
[blockquote=Elliott1]This might have been one of my hobbies. My older daughter would make me teach her to play with toys, and she could give me a talk, talk some more, give me some toys, help me train my daughter to be leader. When I started this class she was so eager to learn. Now it is two years later that she is already doing this amazing thing and has learned as much as possible. Her level of leadership abilities (and I hope her skills and accomplishments will lead her in the right direction) is so great she can be the person who teaches others to become great leaders in their own lives.
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[blockquote=Elliott1]Some students would come down to me, start saying things like “you don’t have the skill because others have it”. Sometimes my students would be like “well, you have the skill you have. But we wouldn’t do this if we knew people who have it.” I would ask them where they went and the responses would always be nothing more than “lol” and “good thing you won the test?” When one is able to become a leader, they are happy to have a chance to take it where they want. I do this because I believe that we can go where we want where we want. [quote=Elliott1]There is absolutely NO substitute for a leader. I am just looking for opportunities within my own career. I believe that my own success in life can help me grow and that when I am a leader within my career, people will start working toward that goal. I am very thankful every day for all the support through my
When asked who was the most influential leader in my life without hesitation I answer my mom. My mom faced an abusive husband and had the courage in the late 1970s to leave him and to raise her two young children on her own. At that time divorce was not as popular as it is now. At that time enforcing child support was not a high priority. My mother went out and found a job and a sitter for her two children. She started working at the local hospital for minimum wage and found a way to pay for daycare costs of two young children. She was able to cloth us, put a house over our head, and food in our stomachs. When my father tried to gain custody of her children she found a way to pay for a lawyer and fight him. Spousal and child abuse again was not a well known epidemic in the lat 1970s as it is today. By the grace of God and her determination