Dr Tim Lautzenheiser Student Leadership Review

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As written in the book Student Leadership by Dr. Tim Lautzenheiser, he outlines many ways on how a student should lead their peers. Lautzenheiser believes that a student leader shouldn’t be chosen for how talented, popular, or how well their academic standing is. Instead the student leader should be chosen for how well they interact with others and how they are considerate of their peers. Being dedicated is a quality that every leader should obtain, but being cooperative and giving are the two levels of maturity that a student should be at before receiving a leadership position.
To begin, a student should be dedicated to their activity of choice before applying for a leadership position since being a leader isn't just about acquiring a …show more content…

Being cooperative with your peers means that you listen to their concerns, are willing to give constructive advice and offer help, and have a mutual understanding. While leading a team, a student must be flexible and is able to communicate with their peers . By being flexible the student is able to accept new schedules and is able to adapt easily, is calm in difficult situations, takes on new challenges at a short notice, and is able to think quickly to provide a solution to a sudden change in circumstance. Communicating with your peers is very important physically and mentally. Communication is important physically because if a practice is canceled your peers need to know, it's also important that your peers know their role in the team and what they are expected to do. A student leader should communicate with their peers because trust throughout the team ensures integrity and without communication team members would be useless if they didn't know what to do. Cooperation within a team in very important because without it how is your team going to work together to strive for the

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