My Leadership Experience Essay

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Throughout life I have realized that there is always room for improvement in anything you do. Since leadership has been a large part of who I am and my life, I want to continue my leadership journey, making improvements and growing each and every day so I can impact the lives of others more efficiently. After I took and reviewed my Leadership Practice Inventory I found out really what kind of a leader I am, and what areas I need to improve in. In my report out of the five areas of modeling the way, inspiring a shared vision, challenging the process, enabling others to act and encouraging from the heart my weakest areas were inspiring a shared vision and encouraging from the heart. I am the complete opposite of the rah, rah, pump people up kind …show more content…

Not surprisingly, the areas I excelled in were related to setting examples and following through with the directions I have given. The results were not shocking by any means, I knew that I was an average leader all around coming in, and knew that I had a lot of room for improvement in many areas. The reason that I feel I am an average leader right now, is because my leadership experience is not very diverse. I have a lot of experience in leading athletic teams from being captain of both my soccer and basketball team, but I lack experience in the area of leading classroom groups and work groups. Even though athletics have taught me a great deal of leading in the correct manner and how to manage people, I want to widen my experience in leading classroom groups and work groups to benefit me in the future for my career. After reviewing the result from the Leadership Practice Inventory, I am extremely excited to build off of the areas I excel in and to improve in the areas I am inadequate …show more content…

The SMART goals tactic formed by The Student Leadership Challenge book is very useful when it comes to creating short term and long term goals. A short term goal of mine is to join a student organization involved with finance majors by the end of the first semester. When I accomplish this goal, I will be opening doors for the future that will help me down my career path to find an internship and or job. My schedule right now consists of just class, joining a finance student organization will help me make better use of my time. Joining a student organization related with finance will also increase my five practices of exemplary leadership, especially the area of inspiring others expressed in The Student Leadership Challenge book. Another short term goal of mine is to increase my activity and participate more in each of my class discussions this semester. I want to enable myself to feel comfortable talking in front of my classes that are full with my peers. Down the road I will need the skills to talk to groups of my peers in order to accomplish my other goals, and I feel that talking in front of my classes is a necessary building block. This is a quality goal for me because it will force me to step outside my comfort zone and grow as a person, the only person that is preventing me from accomplishing this goal is myself. Being like Elliese and taking the initiative to start

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