HDF 190:

FIRST YEAR LEADERS INSPIRED TO EXCELLENCE

LEADERSHIP PORTFOLIO
Sam Noymer
SPRING 2016
Samuel_noymer@my.uri.edu

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Strengths
Opening Statement
Section 1: Self Leadership
Section 2: Leadership Theories
Section 3: Inclusive Leadership
Section 4: Critical Thinking
Section 5: Interpersonal/Organizational Leadership

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*If you do not have one outcome from each area of the Inventory completed,
you may opt to choose 2 from one of the sections.

Signature Strengths
Humor
Fairness
Prudence
Leadership
Teamwork

Values in Action Strengths

Analytical
Adaptability
Ideation
Command
Competition

OPENING STATEMENT
From HDF 190 I learned what my strengths and values are
and how I can apply them to my life and better my self as a
leader. I also have learned many leadership theories that
allow me to best lead people. This means not just leading
from the front but leading along side your peers.

SECTION 1
SELF LEADERSHIP
Outcome 15:
Student will describe personal leadership style and/or personality style including
strengths and weaknesses and examples of application (Sources = Leadership style
inventories, the L.P.I., StrengthsQuest, Type Focus (MBTI), LAMP, and other career
inventories, etc.)
I have taken the Gallup and VIA strengths finder. My top five in the VIA were humor,
fairness, prudence leadership, and teamwork. My top five in Gallup were analytical,
adaptability, ideation, command, and competition. I definitely agree with my top VIA,
humor, because I always want to find the joy in everything and making others, or
myself, laugh is something I find very important. I also agree strongly with my top
Gallup, analytical, because I always think of what the outcome of my actions might
be before I do anything and think before I say anything which sometimes leaves me
silent and looking for the right words.

SECTION 2
Leadership Theory and Models
Outcome 27:
Student will describe personal application of the above theory (Greenleaf)
I have made friends with many of the other people that live in my dorm. After learning
what it can mean to be a servant leader I have let all of my friends know that I am
always there for them and that they can tell me anything or come to me any time.
Doing this allows me to maintain a good dorm community that gets along well and
has very few troubles. I also help others in my dorm with their homework if they
need it because I want everyone to do well in their classes. I will often be in one of
the lounges studying with others and doing homework.

SECTION 3
Inclusive Leadership / Diversity and its application to leadership
Outcome 69:
Student will describe personal example of using cultural anthropology / paradigms
as a leader
During my trip to Germany over winter break I learned a lot about German culture
and how I could better be a leader with a different culture. Even though I only had
taken one semester of German prior to this trip understanding the locals wasnt that
difficult. It was very helpful to first attempt speaking to natives in German even
though most people were fluent in English. Speaking to the Germans in their native
language let them know that I cared about learning their culture and wanted to
improve my knowledge of their culture, and they would often help me with learning
the language.

SECTION 4
Critical Thinking
Outcome 88:
Student will demonstrate proficiency of critical thinking
In this class we were given a group project in which the group had to choose one of
the grand challenges of engineering and present a solution to the class. These are
real challenges that the world is facing and people who have already study the fields
necessary to solve these problems have not created a viable solution to them yet.
The challenge that my group picked was providing clean water to the whole world.
We had to use a lot of critical thinking for this because this is a problem that not
even professionals have solved yet. We also used critical thinking to split the
problem up into parts that would be easier to solve individually, so rather than solve
all of the problems at once we covered each problem one at time.

SECTION 5
(Interpersonal and Organizational Concepts and Skills )
Outcome 129:
Student will describe personal examples of working in collaboratives/coalitions
n HDF 190 we were put into groups for much of the work we were doing in the class.
While in this group we had collaborate on many assignments, these assignments
were part of our grade so we made sure that everything we did was a group effort
that got everyones input before doing something. Specifically for one project we all
had to make time to meet up and work on the project and that wasnt always easy.
Even though we did face some challenges throughout the semester we worked
effectively as a group and we each did our part.