This definition of Leadership is best restated by my very own father “A person can demonstrate leadership skills even when not in a leadership position.” Throughout my high school years so far, I have demonstrated leadership mostly in the field of Boy Scouting in two different Troops. I started out my leadership trail in Boy Scouting by becoming a Troop Scribe who as per se the Boy Scout Handbook, 2016 Edition “The Scribe attends and keeps a log of patrol leaders’ council meetings. He records attendance and dues payments of all troop members and records advancement in troop records and on the troop advancement chart.” After that, I ascended into becoming a Patrol Leader and then acting as a Senior Patrol Leader, the highest youth leader of the troop, handling all patrols’ affairs and coordinating with the Scoutmaster for advice and consent.
Joshua: Our community Malcolm X festival was a yearly event at Frederick Douglass Park. Just blacks from our house every group, company, church, school, rich person, poor person and everybody who wanted to come, gathered together for a day to celebrate, being a community. I first I thought it was just a day to eat and have fun, until I started learning more about the history of our people. Sarah (mother): Good morning!
A hero is a person, who is admired for his/her courage, outstanding achievements, and noble qualities. Heroes have quests that they must complete to achieve something. Hero’s quest consists the call to adventure, supreme initiation, transformation, and hero’s return. Mahatma Gandhi is a hero that led the non-violent movement for Indian independence. He was jailed several times for his protests against British rule.
Leadership is the ability to guide or influence others with an objective of achieving a desired outcome. It involves influencing beliefs, opinions, values, perceptions, or behaviors of an individual or a group, and it is an amalgamation of inherent personality traits, learned skills, and it is a response to situational stimuli. I believe that, at any particular moment, where two or more individuals are interacting, one of them will emerge as the leader the other(s). To me, this means leadership role is fluid, and it changes as situational stimuli changes. For instance, during interpersonal interaction involving two individual, the leadership role has potential to shift from one individual to the other, as the situational stimuli changes.
When I think of Dr. King, I always think about how he never let anyone stop him from doing what he believed was right. He always stood up for those who were discriminated against, but he never resorted to violence. This reminds me of a situation I encountered involving someone bullying my friend. I was in 8th grade at the time, and one of our classmates was bullying her on a daily basis. He though he was just joking around with her not even realizing that his words and actions were severely affecting her.
This article talks about why Martin Luther King Jr. was an important person and why we should follow his actions. King is not only known for his famous “I Have A Dream” speech but is known for his devotion "to bring about equality and civil rights for African Americans" and to "used nonviolence as the most effective form of protest" (Reign). King wanted explicit action not to wait and see what happens. For example, a few weeks before King was killed, he was outside a high school gym near Detroit when a crowd of people started "picketing his appearance" (Reign). He then had some word to say to the crowd, mentioning, "A riot is the language of the unheard" which is still as compatible today as it was 50 years ago when King uttered it (Reign).
“When the world whispers, ‘give up’, Hope whispers, ‘try it one more time. ’”-Unknown. This quote refers to nobody in particular. Instead, it refers to the variety of people out there that want to do some good in the world. Everybody, at first, pictures their hero in shining armour or in some unusual getup.
The Myths Myth has been told for centuries now. However myths are just a traditional story that will most likely be untrue. America has been written down in myths about our ancestry, we believe they had supernatural abilities, that today we lack on and wish to obtain from them. We believe that a small part of us still have that same blood our ancestors did. We can conquer over everything if we have to use that godlike ability our ancestors had or at least that myth we believe in gives us the extra courage to accomplish what we believe in.
2711, the distance in miles between Horsham, Pennsylvania, the town I was raised in, and Wenatchee, Washington, the town I now call home. From my first breath of Pacific Northwest air until just recently, I felt as if I was on my own personal roller coaster, experiencing the excitement of meeting new people and despair when I missed home. I went through twists and loops as I struggled to open myself up to a whole new way of life. During this time, I clung to Martin Luther King Jr.
She displays her leadership skills and listens to everyone and what they have to say. She attempts to lead us into a better future. My mother thinks of the problem and sees a solution, not another problem. This type of thinking has made me rethink what a leader is. My definition of a perfect leader is my mother, she not only influenced me to be the student I am today, but she helps my siblings think the same way.
There are many different views and perceptions on leadership and what it exactly means. This is because there are many different types of leaders and many different views on them. But the basic meaning of leadership is an individual who can select the right group of followers and influence them through their distinct gifts, abilities, skills and knowledge. A leader focuses on the follower and puts out a roadmap to the overall mission and vision; hereby the follower is influenced to willingly and enthusiastically in achieving the mission and vision. The leader achieves this influence by humbly delivering a visionary perception of the future in clear terms that resonates with the follower in terms of their believes and values.
Leadership is can mean different things to different people. To me, leadership is more than having a title and subordinates. Leadership is having the courage to make the right choices, engage others in a vision, and empower your subordinates with a shared purpose and to achieve positive impacts. Leadership can also be relational which means it takes teamwork, requires you to be able to work with others in various backgrounds and that may have difference perspectives. Leadership also requires continuous learning, discerned decision making, and savvy communication skills.
From my point of view , Leadership has more to it than I can possibly imagine. I define leadership as the art of enabling a group of people get to a specific destination. As a leader your main focus was to enable your followers lead theselves. As i think deeper i realise a person cannot choose to be a leader. I think a lot of the time people take on leadership positions without knowing.
LEADERSHIP LESSONS FROM SPORTS What is Leadership? Leadership is defined as the ability to influence a group towards the achievement of a vision or set of goals. The source of this influence may be formal, as happens by organizational hierarchy. However, this does not imply that every manager is a leader or only managers are leaders. The ability to influence and motivate an individual may arise in any non-formal structure as well.
1. Describe an example of your leadership experience in which you have positively influenced others, helped resolve disputes, or contributed to group efforts over time. I consider myself a leader, i believe this because i am the type of person that feels like if i am not the one to do it then it will not be done the right way. Whenever i would work in groups i would designate myself to be the one to do the harder assignment, because i only trusted that would take it serious, not anyone else. Also, whenever i do anything that involves a team, i like to take control, because i feel like i am the best one to work under pressure or i can choose the best solution for any situation.
