...I’m here to explain why you should consider me for color guard captain. To help you understand why I believe I’m the best candidate, I will be answering the following questions: “What makes me the best pick captain?”. What will I do differently than past captains?” and “How do I plan to appropriately be a program leader?”. For starters, as a guy who isn’t interested in sports or athletics, it was hard trying to find somewhere to fit in. I tried staying in the marching band to see if it was the right fit, and once again, I was let down. I didn’t feel as if I could be myself with my marching section. So, I tried out color guard, and we got off to a rough start. I didn’t have any friends at first, and I wasn’t...
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...Section 17: Who Wants to Work? When asked who is ready to do some work, James pre-maturely jumps the gun. He suddenly finds he is really not prepared and attempts to have SusAnne come to his rescue. Jerry immediately picks up on this attempt from James to shift attention onto another member and intervenes by asking SusAnne if she would mind being part of the work James is attempting. James’s hesitation lets us know he is really not ready and we move the focus away from him. 1. You are leading a group and ask, “Who wants to work?” There is a long silence and nobody gives any indication of wanting to work. What assumptions might you draw from this situation? What might you say? I would assume that there is lack in the degree of trust and confidence within the group. I would ask each member if they could verbalize “How safe do you feel right now in this group”? And give reasons why or why not. Section 19: Symbolic Exploration Through Role Playing One of the first things I noticed about this segment is how Casey managed to muster enough courage to go through the role play. The issues of her not only feeling judged by SusAnne and other members in the group, as well as coming out to her mother are very important to her. Her willingness to take the necessary risk to the work on these issues is to be commended. However, skillfully guided her along by first asking a very important question, “Is this your agenda or Jerry’s?” The sheer emotion displayed in this role-play couldn’t help...
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...Section Leader Application What band means to me is far more important than what i can put into words. I have marched with the FORCE for the last two summers and how proud i am to be a member of such a great band is outstanding. It feels great to start off the school day in concert band and ending it with jazz band. There is not one part of band I do not like. I love playing at football games while freezing to death. I love playing basketball games while struggling not to hit the pole thing in front of me with my slide. The past year I got into some trouble in my personal life and band helped me through a lot of it. Whenever i would get mad or upset, I would spend hours practicing and I personally think that is why i have improved so much in the past year. Band is not just a class to me. Its where I feel like I belong. How I can express my emotions through music even though during IPA it looked like I did not even want to be here even though it was the only place I wanted to be. Like I said, how band makes me feel is far beyond words but if I had to use words I would say it makes me feel just amazing. I want to be a section leader in the Force because I would love to be able to have impact on our success. I know what is expected of a leader and I...
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...World 7 MY LEADERSHIP STYLE AND OVERALL REFLECTION 10 My Experiences with Leadership 10 What Kind of Leader do I Want to be and Why? 13 How Best Can I Become a Leader 13 REFERENCES 14 ------------------------------------------------- INTRODUCTION According to a number of different sources a manifesto can be defined as a statement that publicly declares the intentions, views and motives of the issuer. This report is a personal manifesto that outlines my thoughts on the topic of leadership. The topic of leadership has been debated over endlessly this year. We have discussed what the difference is between transactional and transformational leadership, the qualities of the most effective leaders, the different levels of effective leadership and the different styles of leadership. Leadership is also something that, I’m pretty sure, each Genesis participant has physically experienced on top of academically studying it throughout this year. I feel that, after this year, I am much more aware of the importance of leadership and its effect on today’s society and our economy. In the first section I will outline my interpretation of the definition and why I feel it is so important in today’s world. The next section will explore the intersection of entrepreneurship and leadership as well as the emerging importance of entrepreneurial leadership. The last section will retell my leadership experiences and my planned intentions...
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...same. They APRIL 2001 typically focus on knowledge transferinforming new hires, for instance, about the company's products and markets and how to access key resources in the organization. The best ones, like those at GE and Ford, do this by having the recruits work on real business problems, where intense teamwork is required to meet tight deadlines (a technique I've described elsewhere as "compressed action learning"). I've studied tbem all. I thought I'd seen it all. But then I saw Trilogy University. It was 1998, and I was traveling around the 63 HBR AT LARGE • No Ordinary Boot Camp country, studying corporate universities as part of a benchmarking research project on action learning. Within days of my arrival, I knew Trilogy University was a breed apart ~ in fact, my definition of best practice shot out to the horizon line. I've spent hundreds of hours since then at TU, documenting its unconventional approach-and its phenomenal results. (It should be stated, by way of full disclosure, that I briefly consulted to Trilogy last year on the matter of its reorganization. But my relationship to the company and its university at this point is purely as an observer.) Modeled after Marine Corps basic training, a corporate boot camp is designed to push new recruits to their limits. Each day offers some nearly insurmountable challenge, and the reward for...
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...Psychology of Women Study Guide for Second Exam Fall 2014 You are responsible for everything discussed in lecture unless I note otherwise. You are responsible for the material in the text unless I specifically state below that the material will not be covered on the exam. Carefully review the take home points in each chapter. Keep in mind that most gender differences are small and that there is a great deal of overlap between women and men. Thus, when I ask about differences, it is in the context of many similarities and small mean differences. Chapter 7: Communication The text provides 3 reasons why children prefer to play with others of the same sex. Be familiar with them. How do girls tend to play with each other in same sex groups? How do boys tend to play with each other in same sex groups? How do girls tend to talk to each other in same sex groups? How do boys tend to talk to each other in same sex groups? What -- if anything -- is different in children’s cross sex play and talk compared to same sex play and talk? Are girls more likely than boys to engage in relational aggression? What do meta-analysis findings suggest? What gender similarities and differences have been found in how adults interact? What factors determine what types of differences are found? You are not responsible for the section discussing online communication (p. 229). The text provides a long list of differences in how men and women in the US typically use...
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...well, why did it get to the point where he needed to kill him in order for Rome to be good and safe? Brutus is a Roman man that is trying to stop Caesar from being king and taking his spot in Rome. Caesar is a man that was from another country and he came to Rome to try to change things around to make things better for Rome. He was a famous statesman, military leader, and a dictator of Rome. Brutus assassinated Caesar because he felt like he was getting too powerful in Rome and they were noticing that he was taking over Rome and bribing people. They mainly did this because they felt like he was going to take...
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...in the workplace outside of a leadership role. The roles can be formal or informal and can be played by one or more members. During my research I found six common roles that are played in the workplace, which include: the agenda setter, the cheerleader, the critic, the gatekeeper, the joker and the leader. The Agenda Setter The Agenda Setter is "who regularly puts new ideas and issues on the table" (pg. 136). This role is important within a group because this role is responsible for providing an agenda and supporting materials ahead of time. By doing so it will help maximize the time that the group has to ensure that everything is covered in a timely manner. This role can be done by The Leader but it will make things run smoother if an Agenda Setter is assigned. According to the textbook, The Agenda Setter is very important and most meetings cannot survive without one (pg. 137). The Cheerleader The Cheerleader is "who encourages any sign of progress"(pg. 136). This role can be played by one or more people at a time. "An effective Cheerleader will point out the common ground between two apparently opposed positions and can be evolve into a Consensus Builder"(pg. 138). The Cheerleader can also be referred as The Supporter where one would "encourage the other group members and provide emotional support as needed" (section 14.2). During a group meeting The Support may take time to address members individually. For example,...
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...Model/Leadership Statement Section II: My Role in My Education Presently I am at the start of my educational plan. I have successfully completed two sessions at Devry. In five years I will be at the end of my education. I will have my own company and will apply my skills and determination to that business so that I will be as successful with it as with my education. My ultimate goal is to be an entrepreneur and be a positive role model for my parents. I have laid out my classes in a spreadsheet format and have carefully selected each one and the order in which I will take them. This has helped me to visualize my goal further and to prepare for each session as it arrives. I will graduate in the fall of 2015 and will move forward with my education in Computer Information System. As with anything in life, there are bound to be obstacles of which I will have to overcome in order to accomplish my goal. Money is tight and at the present I am working at a company called Fab. Being that I am a driven individual, I will not allow any changes in my work status to prevent me from continuing my education although these changes may slow me down a little. Finally, the last obstacle that I could foresee me having to face would be financing. Right now I am over funded due to my low-income status; however, if the previous scenarios caused me to take a higher paying job, I would lose some of my funding. This would cause me to cut back my classes as well. I would not be funded as a full...
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...quote: schools named after leaders of the integration struggle are some of the most segregated schools, such as the Thurgood Marshall Elementary School in Seattle, Washington (95% minority) or a school named after Rosa Parks in San Diego, California (8000% minority). Kozol notes that most of the students within these schools are unfamiliar with the actions of the minority leaders their schools are named after. Kozol goes on to point out the lack of segregation within the urban communities that surround these schools, specifically mentioning the residential segregation in New York City, which matches levels from the 1960s. Introduction and Chapter 1 Summary The introduction talks about how Jonathan Kozol began teaching and he introduces the book. Kozol lets the reader know what to expect when reading the book. Chapter one is about how schools named after someone in history like Martin Luther King Jr. or Thurgood Marshall are not integrated, they are still segregated. Kozol also mentions how Dr. King said, "as long as the Negros basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one," (33), but right now minorities are moving from larger ghettos to smaller ones. They are trying to get out and move into the suburbs, but when they move out they end up in the same situation.Kozol, at the end of chapter one, talks about how the schools try to instill in the children that they can achieve anything they want to by chanting things like, "yes I can, I know I can." (35). Kozol believes...
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...transformational leader. Increase your impact with self, others, teams, and organizations. Name of Participant: Sample Tester Date of Assessment: 2011-09-30 by Terry D. Anderson, Ph.D., with Ken Keis, M.B.A. Published by Consulting Resource Group Canada: PO Box 418 Main, Abbotsford, BC V2T 6Z7 * USA: PO Box 8000 PMB 386, Sumas WA, 98295-8000 Website: www.crgleader.com © 1990-2011, CRG Consulting Resource Group International, Inc. All rights reserved. This material is protected by law and may not be reproduced in any form. Printed from http://www.crgleader.com 2 of 16 Online Leadership Skills Inventory - Self (LSI-S) © 1990-2011 Consulting Resource Group Professional Development and Planning Section Why Become a Transforming Leader? Skilled Leaders are critical to the success level of any venture, both profit and non-profit. This was validated in the research Jim Collins and his team conducted for his book, Good to Great. They confirmed that the most successful organizations had skilled Transforming Leaders at the helm. (Jim Collins called them Level 5 Leaders.) Our research, however, has shown that fewer than 1 in 10 professionals (as observed in video-taped assessment sessions) have competency in the whole range of skills to Level 4 competency (scores of 7 to 8). And even fewer individuals have the abilities—Level 5 competency, scores of 9 to 10—to teach others the skills outlined in the Leadership Skills Inventory. This confirms why there is such a Leadership...
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...performance improvement. Learning Objectives Upon completion of this unit, you will be able to: 1. Develop and complete a Team Agreement that conforms to the guidelines found in these training materials and that a team will actually use on-the-job 2. Describe your role in the high performance team process according to the definitions found in these training materials and by using input from others (i.e., team members, team leader, team sponsor) 3. Identify your team’s phase of development, as defined in these training materials, and set realistic expectations for team outputs (based on the team’s development phase) © RICHARD CHANG ASSOCIATES, INC. 1 BUILDING A DYNAMIC TEAM Building A Dynamic Team (cont.) Agenda Building Toward High Performance Starting Up A Team Creating And Using Team Agreements Creating Your Team Agreement: A Checklist For Getting Started Creating Your Team Agreement: Mission And Goals (Part I And Part II, Section 1) Creating Your Team Agreement: Performance Measures (Part II, Section 2) ...
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...Personality Approach to Leadership Leaders come in many shapes and forms. As we look at leaders in the different types of organizations, I will be able to explain and justify why leaders act the way that they do. Every situation calls for a different type of leadership style. In my paper I will explain the different types of leaders and why they perform in certain ways. I will also show how their effectiveness to different organization situations effect their followers. Every organization has to step back and look at various situations and focus on how to improve them. As effective leaders, we have to use that strategy to make improvement. Leaders in all types of organizations should be able to seek and focus on improving their organization. If leaders are not able to see and comprehend the need for such improvement, it will prove to be detrimental to the success of the organization. As we look at the personality theory, in regards to leadership, we find that it is the combination of physical, mental, emotional, and social characteristics and traits within an individual. It relates to the way people act and react to others and it can affect an individual’s perceptions and behaviors. When we try to dissect the concepts of a person’s personality we will find that no two are alike. Every person has their own ways of like and dislikes. As human beings, we must also try to understand the ways and actions of others. As leaders, we must be able to do this, because it...
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...Gang Leader For A Day SECTION 1 1.) How would you respond if a graduate student from an elite university turned up at your door and announced his intention to study you? If a graduate student from an elite university showed up at my door with intentions to study me, I think that I would allow him access. I would like the chance to hear what they had to say about my lifestyle. I’ve always questioned the way I live and if other peoples lives’ are similar. I don’t think that I live an odd life, but it would be interesting to see how a stranger viewed it. I know at first that I’d be a lot like J.T. in regard to certain aspects of my life. I wouldn’t behave the way I always do, I’d be on my best behavior at least until we familiarized ourselves with one another. If we became friends like Sudhir and J.T. then I would have no trouble letting my guard completely down. 2.) How would your reaction differ from what Sudhir Venkatesh encountered in Gang Leader for a Day? I think I would have had a very different reaction from Sudhir, at least in the beginning. If my first run in with J.T. was like his, it would have also been my last run in with J.T. First and foremost I would have been very scared, I mean he was held hostage in a stairwell over night. Secondly, I would have taken the fact that I was just held hostage very personally. Then if I did find it in my heart to go back there and hang out with J.T. and his crew at the first sign of real violence I would have been out...
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...Fascist dictators have been around for many years. Many want to have full power and control over a nation or multiple nations. Sometimes, they do this by using extreme violence and discriminating propaganda. In the Populus Leader Project, the fascist techniques of Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Donald Trump are revealed. The section I worked on was about the leader of the USSR, Joseph Stalin. Joseph Stalin had an extremely rough childhood. He lived in poverty and was spiteful at the government for this. He also got arrested many times. As soon as Lenin fell, Stalin jumped in and seized power of the USSR. He supported and had many extreme ideas such as killing all capitalists. One statement he said stated “When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use” (www.brainyquote.com.) Extreme ideas like this lead to violent killings and eventually the mass murder of 6 million people, including his own citizens. He firmly believed that “death is the solution to all problems. No man- no problem.” (www.brainyquote.com.) Ideas like this created the largest man-made famine in history. He used methods such as propaganda and a secret police force to try and get everyone on his side....
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