If you were to tell me a year ago I would be auditioning to become a squad leader, I would have called you crazy. I also didn’t think the marching band would have had as much of an impact on my life as it did. I learned to love marching bands to the point where I looked forward to it every single day. I look forward to seeing my old friends and the new friends I made while at camp. I want to be the squad leader so I can help my section succeed and so I can give other people the same joy and excitement I felt throughout marching band. Being a leader means being a person who can inspire others and a role model that people can look up to. I am a good role model because I am responsible, and I am someone who gives it their all 100 percent of the …show more content…
They chose me because I am a reliable person and someone who will do their part to make someone else the best they can be. This has helped me become better at teaching other people and improved my patience. Another leadership experience I have is how I have been the facilitator on many group projects in the past. A facilitator's job is to keep everyone on task and working efficiently. As a squad leader, these qualities will help me keep my squad from goofing off and help everyone improve individually and as a group. From these experiences, I have learned that without a leader, success is hard to reach as well as how to resolve conflict. Being a leader has also taught me to not expect others to understand everything immediately and to expect the unexpected. I believe I can be an outstanding squad leader and a good model to everyone else due to my experience leading and guiding others. My goals for the marching band include making my section the best it can be and building strong relationships among us and the rest of the band. One of the reasons I had a great experience freshman season was because of the people I got to share it
When I found out that I was one of the captains of the Varsity Sideline team, I had a beaming smile and felt satisfied with my achievement. As captain, cheerleaders on the varsity and the JV squads come to me with questions and small issues, and I enjoy the opportunity to help them. I have become even more organized and mature because the coach looks to me for help. Being selected as lead captain has had many rewards, it gave me a boost of confidence and inspired me to campaign for other leadership
Ever since I was little I wanted to be a captain just like my older sister. Back then I thought it was just a cool label, but in my past three years as a TCHS cheerleader I have quickly learned the amount of dedication and hard work this position entails. I qualify for being a captain because I have a good attitude, work well with others, and always put in an effort to work hard.
Finally, leadership is an equally important characteristic I display. As a class officer for the past two years, my job is to guide and encourage the class to participate in projects and events. Even though many were hesitant, I showed leadership and encouraged participation. I also am a possible candidate for an officer position in Student Council. I have been selected for this position based on my strong leadership abilities, such as bringing forth ideas, compromising for projects, and speaking up when others will not.
During the time I’ve been in high school I’ve participated in the Hamtramck High School Marching Band both freshman and sophomore years, Physics Olympiad during sophomore year, chess club during freshman year and a drafting competition (the Engineering Society of Detroit, where my group and I won $30,000 scholarship each) during freshman year. Outside of school, I helped out at my local place of worship, the Al-Islah Islamic Center. During the summer, I would volunteer to help the kids improve their reading of our holy book (the Quran). Also the prayer leader (Imam) of the mosque was writing theses instructional Islamic books and he asked me to help him write and edit them. I plan to do more things outside of school and also participate in more clubs next year like robotics and government.
When someone asks me what marching band means to me, it’s very difficult to come up with a simple answer that everyone can understand. Marching band means belonging to something bigger and more worthwhile than just a “team”; It means having a stake in something that is a treasured part of both our school and our community. Even if it means going to bed feeling every muscle in my body ache and knowing I may wake up feeling worse, I always look forward to doing it all again the next day (and the next year). Marching band is a challenge that pushes the limits of my physical and emotional endurance in such a way that I can’t wait to come back for more because I know I will be a better person for it.
Involvement in marching band, field hockey, and various other activities has given me many opportunities to show leadership. My first leadership opportunity was in eighth grade when I became a WEB leader. While I was a WEB leader, I helped incoming sixth graders get adjusted to middle school life and find their classes on the first day. I also met up with the sixth graders in my group once a month at lunch and got to know them while I asked how school was going and helped them with any issues they had. In marching band, this past season I was a marching captain for my section. I helped the freshmen learn to march, demonstrated proper marching techniques for others, and gave advice to anyone having trouble with part of our marching show. At the start of field hockey season I showed leadership by helping new players learn to play field hockey by demonstrating how
Being a leader is no simple task. During my Eagle Scout project, I lead a range of people, from adults to youth. It was my job to make sure everyone was working and, that everyone was capable of doing their task. I had many issues doing this throughout my project because I am only one person and I can’t be everywhere at once. Thusly made being a leader a drudgery. But I had an incredible set of adults guiding me along the way, who taught me that being a leader was not doing everything myself, being a leader
I knew before I auditioned for the role that it would be challenging. I knew that to be treated with the respect I wanted I would have to earn it and being a leader meant that someone at one point was always going to hate me or not like a decision I made. Yet, knowing all of this, it is still challenging. There are times where it seems like everyone hates me and days that I would rather go home and cry then have to deal with the constant criticism. One thing that I did not know before becoming drum major though was how much stronger it would make me and how those who speak out against me would be the people who encourage me to be better, even if that’s not their intention. Even though I have had many challenges in this role, it has made me so much stronger, more passionate, and a better person than I could have ever imagined.
“Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.” --John Maxwell. Drum Majors and Section Leaders are renowned for their ability to lead by example, poise, and demeanor. As band camp begins, the Drum Major assists the directors by teaching the incoming marchers basic marching skills and help refresh the rest of the band members on their marching as well. The Section Leaders help their section be comfortable with our challenging music before the band rehearsals and help their section refine their marching skills. Both positions require leadership skills, confidence, and dedication to be successful and I believe that I have what it takes.
All soldiers, especially leaders, are highly recommended to keep a certain set of values that radiate throughout the entire U.S. Army. They are challenged to keep them near and dear to their hearts and to define and live them every day. A leader is one who takes these challenges serious and abides by
It is about who I am off the podium. For the past five years (I marched up as an 8th grader), I have been proving something to these people, so that they trust me in this position. The character of drum major or leader is one I have been perfecting since I was a freshman. For a long time I was just an actor trying to be a character. Eventually, I had acted the part so much that I became it, and it was my role. I give respect to receive it. I build real relationships of with members to achieve trust, accountability, and effort. When people are torn up inside because of their home life, which is quite frequent in Lenoir City Tennessee, I am their shoulder to cry on, or a set of ears to vent to, or a buffer to dull their anger. When people are frustrated with me for some reason, I seek them out and learn what I can do different. When there are five flavors of gum stuck to the floor of the band room at 11:30 on a Friday night, I get on my knees with a plastic fork and start scraping. When the band director constantly yells at me for this that and the other, I take into account the criticisms and practice harder. The band and the director see this character I have transformed into, or maybe the one I have always been, and that is why I have the honor of standing on the podium and wearing the gloves. I have become the band’s teacher, nurse, cattle driver, answer dispenser, and friend. Somehow, those all add up to leader. I refuse to let them down, rather I lift them
While I'd love to write a four page essay on all of my positive attributes and why I can be a positive addition to band leadership; I'm going to narrow it down to three key points that clearly show my success in the band program. I’ve looked forward to demonstrating my will to become a part of the band leadership program since the end of freshman year; wanting to prove how much i've learned throughout my participation in the color guard. Starting with my dedication to the whole band program, will to improve my all around skills through the band, and ending with the fact that the guard has evolved tremendously throughout my highschool years in a positive way.
been in band for three years in middle school, high school band was a whole new world full of
To be a leader you need to be able to inspire others, get people motivated, and set an example to other people. A leader needs to do all of these because if one of these aspects fails people don’t look at the leader...
Being a leader in almost any given situation has been an innate quality that I have possessed for as long as I can remember. I have always found myself nominating myself for leadership positions. My most recent and fulfilling leadership position was in my eleventh and twelfth grade school years when I held the position of Drum Major for Purnell Swett High School’s Marching Rams. Being in this position meant that I had to give up the spotlight of performance, turn my back to the crowd, and lead my fellow band members on and off of the field of competition, high school football games, and community parades. Over the course of these two years, I have learned many defining qualities about myself and have learned how to incorporate these newly learned and innate qualities into my everyday life.