Social Work Reflective Essay

Introduction
Social work is born out of concern with human suffering but with its face set against changing social patterns that might cause suffering. Understanding leadership in social work is important as social, cultural, economic, and demographic factors are becoming diverse. Leadership is required in the social work in order to reach this goal of ending or lowering suffering. We all tend to believe we know a “good leader”, we even believe that we are good leaders in our own ways. I believe in that statement, because you can be a leader in many ways from the true leader to just a leader by heart.
Throughout the semester, we as Social Work students are starting to dip our toes into the real world and about to start our journey into

I will achieve this through demonstrating commitment to self-awareness of personal biasness, both negatives in working with the diverse groups and commit to lifelong learning. I will also apply my critical thinking skills of analysis and problem solving to strengthen the groups, communities, and organizations.
Meeting these goals will require having professional ethics in the work. The NASW code of conduct (Reamer, p. 120) will however guide the ethics. Challenges that I could encounter might include high workloads and challenging clients. I will explore, assess, and plan in meeting my goals.
Social work leaders require specific qualities as they transition agencies into the next century (Cooke et al., 239). These include managing environmental relationships, such as effective agency or program representation and positioning, networking, coalition building, negotiating hostile environments, and dealing with multiple customer and stakeholder groups (Cooke et al., p. 240). It is like what General George Patton once said, “Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their