As people go throughout life, they encircle different perspectives of what they think a leader should be. Either a famous actor, singer, artist, or even a family member. Growing up, try to remember the first person you looked up to, and why. What about that person made you think “leader”, or what made you want to follow in their footsteps? With being a leader, comes with many different responsibilities. It also comes with how you show off your leadership to your peers. I’m a leader by how I exemplify a positive attitude, to delegating responsibilities, and having complete determination towards my goals. Since leadership is such a broad topic of what exactly makes one, I have my own view of what developed me into becoming a leader.
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a leader, comes with many different characteristics. Having responsibility to withhold every day, to always have a positive attitude in any circumstance, and many more that is involved in that position. That title as a leader is essential to how I grow as a person. But what is the difference between a leader, and what makes a National Honor Society leader? Being a National Honor Society leader isn’t only during school, but having that leadership outside in the community and as a person. Having that title occurs in many different forms, from demonstrating academic initiative, contributing ideas to improve the civic life of the school, and countless more that makes me an National Honor Society leader. I think the fine line that splits up a regular leader, to being a National Honor Society leader, is how I represent myself at school. Not only do I show my leadership skills at home and throughout work, but I most certainly utilize them during school time. Of course, a lot of things make up of what type of leader I am, but the most important part is how I got to become a leader. Becoming a leader, I had to have a start somewhere.
My roots started out when I moved to Illinois when I was five. I moved to a completely new place with new people, and I was bound to hit challenges on the way. Not by only trying to fit in, or make new friends, but having to go home and deal with family problems as well. At such a young age, I had to mature fairly fast in my household. With having a mom who sincerely didn’t care about me, and left me to do everything on my own. I learned a lot of things that usually a 5 to 10 year old wouldn’t experience. To cooking meals for myself and my brother, to keeping the whole household clean, getting my young brother ready for school everyday, and teaching him life lessons about the world. I started to have a drive for success with such a young heart. I, of course, had a stepdad who did a lot to help around, but when he was gone at work and my mother was asleep for the whole time he was gone, I had to be the parent in the house. I protected my brother from many dangerous si and showed him how to grow and not let things essentially break him down. He was the whole reason why I did start to become a leader and try to be the best person I could be so he could have some womanly figure to look up too. There are many different examples throughout living in Illinois that started my characteristics of becoming a leader, and also moving back to Nebraska. From middle school and going into highschool, my leadership skills grew from the
challenges I faced. Most importantly. The biggest challenges I faced for myself was junior year of highschool. As everyone says, junior year is the worst year in highschool, and sadly they were right. To go in this year with just a month in and losing my best friend to a car crash, my whole life flipped upside down. Doubts started to cave in, and my drive for success shot down. The thought of how someone can be taken away and to never having communication with them again, was gut wrenching to me. It started to tear me down, but then I realized that I can’t give up because of that event in my life. It made me want to push even harder to becoming a better leader by showing that even if I get thrown at with something terrible, that I can turn it around and push through it. I got back on track with school, and started to maintain my A’s and B’s, and I became more active with people and the community as a whole. That event didn’t ruin my life, but made me a stronger person today. Those two events are what clearly made me the leader I am today, but throughout my life there has been other situations that caused me to become a better leader as well. As I grew into a leader, I have certain strong points of how and where I am a leader. I show my leadership skills in four different places. I am a leader at home, band, school, and at my job. Since I gave examples of how I am a leader at school in the beginning of this essay, I am going to dive into more of how I’m a leader in those different areas. I show leadership skills at home by always being on top of everything. Especially with house work and keeping things neat around the house. At home, with my siblings I show them leadership skills as well. By keeping on track with school and earning rewards and being involved, they’re always looking up to me for how they should be when they grow up. Then I show my peers at band of how to be a leader as well. By having a year ahead of everyone in my grade level, I show them that if they keep practicing, that they too can become a better musician. Also during marching band I show my group of how to have excellent marching technique and how we could become a better band. I show them listening skills towards our drum majors and to always be on top with knowing all the music and steps for the show.
Everyone has their own ideas of what a leader is, what they might look like, act like or maybe what their accomplishments were. They, who are the leaders are the ones who have made a changed in the world and have shown people how true leaders are recognized as. They may have made mistakes in life, but they each take leadership and they each are unique, having their own personalities and an individual quality that makes them a true leader. A leader can portray attributes like courage: having bravery and overcoming fears, confidence: to believe in oneself, and action: to be able to accomplish amazing deeds for the benefit of family, friends and others.
Leadership is contagious throughout the world and most importantly in the Army. It is not just my view, but of all leaders, at all levels, that organizations are responsible for setting conditions that lead to long-term organizational success. As I reflect on my experiences, through experience and observation, I realize how my values, beliefs, and perspectives about leadership continuously evolve over time. Recognizing these changes over time helps me better understand that people in organizations have different perspectives in life. This leadership narrative serve as important guiding principles for how I will lead at the organizational level and represents my thought, values and beliefs.
To be a leader, you have to be authoritative, but not mean, and you have to keep a cool head, even in the hardest situations. You also have to be understanding, and
Leadership is being able to direct or guide other people by either your own actions or by actually guiding them into the right direction (Acumen). Inspiration to be a leader might come from many different areas like your family, friends, peers, or even teachers. My inspiration didn’t really occur to me until I started attending college in August 2013. In all actuality I never even thought of how to be a leader until I was in Mrs. Moore’s Perspectives class. I now have a desire to be a great leader, and the inspiration has come from Mrs. Moore, and my family. I am the first to attend college out of my family, so in a away I have already started leading my siblings in the right direction. Being a leader means inspiring others to pursue their dreams, and aspirations and helping throughout the journey to success. Being a leader has nothing with authority or being able to tell other what, and how to do things, it’s about having people who look up to you and want to follow your example.
Leaders do not just appear out of thin air and automatically start making great things happen in the world. A leader must learn from prior leaders or role models that they are surrounded by that they look up to. Not everyone can be a leader, only some people have the correct characteristics it takes to lead others in the right direction. Those who do great things, for example volunteering at a homeless shelter, are not leaders. Many people mistake a “great person” as being a leader, which is completely incorrect (Kouzes and Posner, p. 3). While playing an active role in your community is a positive thing it does not make someone a leader of that community. All leaders have a group of people they have inspiration too and that is a good way of determining who your personal leaders are. My mother, brother, and grandfather are my leaders because I have always looked up to them and tried to mimic some of the great things that I have seen them do. My mother has always been an independent women with goals and an action plan to accomplish those set goals. Stephen, my elder brother, is outgoing and tends to have a leveled head when it comes to evaluating stressful situations. My grandfather is the most caring person I know and he is amazing at keeping situations under control in order to please everyone. These are all the qualities I want to combine into my own leadership style. I know I am not a efficient leader of these actions yet, but I plan on growing into this as I more on into my career, fulfill my set goals, and adjust to the curve-balls that life throws at me.
I believe that leadership is not something that you are born with, but that has to be learned over time. You learn to become a leader from watching other leaders, and also from personal experience. People should become leaders; so that they can help others do their best. They should not become leaders for the title and power that may come with leadership. Being a leader does not mean you get to boss people around by telling them what to do. The purpose of a leader is to guide others by encouraging, showing them the way, and by challenging them to do the best that they can do. I learned leadership through personal experience. In high school I played sports and had many class projects to do. My senior year was the first time my school had a soccer program, and I along with two other girls was captains. As we all know, when a group of girls come together, the drama comes too. All three of the captains had to work together and show the girls that if we wanted this program to be a success and grow, they had to work together as well. It was hard at first, but when we encouraged everyone, it worked out better than expected in the end. Also, in my business class, we had a lot of projects that were mostly group projects. During the end of the year, we had a project where we had to make up a new product. My partner and I were both seniors and it was a stressful time with finals, SAT scores, graduation, and trying to become honor graduates. We were tired and just did not want to do another project, but our teacher, Mr. Brace, did not give up on us. He showed us what to do, and encouraged us constantly every day. He would tell us many positive things and would check up on us. He was a great teacher and a great leader. Leadership may be one wo...
In order for a leader to be a leader, he/she must begin with the assumption that you are the one who matters most. As a leader you have to possess that level of confidence in yourself that you are capable of leading yourself “before you can lead others”. And when you develop this belief then you are better able to affirmatively influence “on others”. A leader needs to “believe” in himself and have the confidence that whatever you say will excite and what you do can motivate others. You must be optimistic about what you do, to have some relevance to being in existence.
When people think of leadership so many things rush through their heads. For example am I a leader, am I apart of a group that has a leader, and what does being a leader mean? A common definition of being a leader is a person who leads or guides a group of people. So now knowing the definition of a leader who pops into your head; Phil Jackson, Mike Krzyzewski, Martin Luther King Jr.? All of these people are great leaders, but the real question is why are they so great? One very important thing that all these men have in common is they have a philosophy of leadership. This philosophy is going to help guide these men during turbulent times, or when they need guidance themselves. Nobody is perfect and everyone needs direction no matter how wise or gifted you are. I am no different, which is why writing this philosophy of leadership is going to be a fruitful experience for years to come.
Leadership is all about having the right amount of heart and determination to help make a difference in someone’s life. It takes certain qualities to be considered a good leader. A leader should want to help inspire others to make a change and to be the best that they can be. A true leader does not need to feel powerful, instead they empower those around them. Throughout my life I have come across various leaders who have made an impact on my life. It takes a very special person to inspire and touch people’s lives. Leadership is so much deeper than having power and bossing people around.
Sometimes you may have to take a directive or disciplinary approach which may get the job done but can have a negative impact on the relationship. It is important to recognize this and try to be as open as possible on why the action was taken and how things can be improved in the future. As mentioned before it requires a situational adjustment but that does not mean it has to end negatively. I remind my followers that not all mistakes have to be negative. I have made many mistakes and that is what formed me to grow and be successful. I will also continue to make mistakes in the future the important thing is to learn from them and become better. As a leader I share this with my followers, so they feel comfortable to take risks and learn from their mistakes as well. Now that we have looked at my leadership philosophy let look at how I can take what I have learned from this course and improve my organization.
Good morning Master Chief Marlatt and Senior Enlisted Leadership Class 66. My leadership philosophy has been heavily influenced by my career as a Surfman and some of the people I have served with. First, what is a good leader? Many of my peers would say a person who is a good lifeboat driver. Does that person have the guys to cross a rough bar at night? Those are things that I think a lot of Surfmen would say a good leader is.
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...
Becoming a leader comes with great responsibilities. Leadership is a quality that is not given but must be achieved. Having personal power, strength, and self-determination to make the important decisions for others and to be able to live by those decisions yourself. There are many qualities for being a leader. Leaders must have that take charge attitude. They don’t usually just sit back and wait for someone else to do it for them. They are able to work with what they are given; you know the saying “When life gives you lemons make lemonade.” They are passionate about what they do and when others see that, they follow in pursuit. We read about different types of leaders on a regular basis and what qualities they posses.
I have not always been a leader. It took years of following in high school to emerge my senior year, and subsequently into college, as a leader. Creativity and problem-solving assisted me in leading my high school yearbook. In my leadership journey, I have found accountability and trust to be most important in my democratic leadership style. Communication and sociability have also aided me in being an effective leader and hopefully meeting my future goals.
I was always told to be a leader you must know how to follow. Not to mention, everyone plays a part in all we do. The Law of Explosive Growth takes off when you decide to be all you can be for the cause.