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leaderships and have heard from people in various industries about how they apply
authority that has the best intentions of the group in mind, biblical leaders like
Moses. But seeing how broad the definition of leadership really is and how many
different styles there are has changed how I view leadership. Leadership is just
driving a group towards a shared goal, whether you are the one making all of the
decisions or just sharing your viewpoint and allowing the group to decide, either
Although we didn’t really talk much about the assessments in class it was
interesting to see how I scored for the true colors assessment, a tie between green
and orange. I think we were told to pick one if we had a tie, but honestly looking at
the color personalities it seems to me like a mix of the two is a good fit. Just from
the papers we were handed out it says that green is a visionary, strategically
centered, and that orange is trouble shooter, and action oriented. To me this
seems like someone can adapt to new situations to solve problems. In my campfire
story I talked about my experience in the chess club in high school. In high school
chess actually took up quite a large portion of my free time as I was in love with the
game. I believe my specific personality uniquely lends itself to the game and my
instance some organizations would benefit more from servant leadership than from
transformational, I believe transformational is the one I can see applying myself to.
can you go wrong with all of those things? However I am not a very charismatic or
chess club in high school I had thought about ways to ensure that didn’t happen
my second time around with chess club 2.0 here at UC. The club worked out fine in
high school and I had fun but it didn’t really feel like my leadership meant anything.
It was more of a group of friends playing chess than an organized group with a
goal. And for that reason the club remained small and exclusive. If I had
established my role as a leader by being open about my vision for the club and
discussed with the other members what they wanted out of a chess club maybe we
could have made some action toward that goal. Perhaps the 4-stage model of
group development was what we were missing. Without asking others what they
Having taken this class I am much better equipped to interact with people in
a leadership setting and have acquired many skills through which to enact
leadership. Skills such as getting on the balcony and how to avoid work avoidance
and identify when it is happening. Having speakers come in and give us a real life
understanding of the theories we discussed in class. It can be hard to talk about all
these theories and methods without a situation to apply them too, and even if you