Leadership

 Leadership

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less. —Andre Malraux. 

What is leadership? 

Leadership is a process “whereby an individual influences a group of individuals to achieve a common goal.  When we think of leadership, we usually think of a person who is in charge. A leader isn’t someone who mandates or rules, a leader is a person who climbs and overcomes the rocks along the way with the individuals walking by their side. 

 

What does it mean to be a leader?

As a personal experience being the class leader was a little difficult, I didn’t know what to do but with help I could overcome it and be more efficient by helping other students keep up and do an amazing job. My main role as a leader is to help and/or assist others at the best of my abilities. 

Helping our professor is another task that the class leaders need to achieve. The majority of the time David and I need to take attendance, make sure that the rest of the students understood the lecture and in the case that they didn’t, help them understand. 

As a leader I always want to make sure that my classmates are feeling comfortable and are working in a healthy environment. I have the need to work alongside them and be part of the short journey that is our Speech class. 

What have I learned from being a leader? 

I will take a couple of things with me from being a leader, one of them is to place my trust in my classmates and letting them explore the best ways in which they can work to their full potential. Another lesson that I’ll take with me is the way of professionalism that I’ve learned to have and how to say things taking in consideration that some words can be interpreted differently as it was intended to be said. 

I’m really grateful for the opportunity that I was given and the trust that was placed in me to guide my classmates through the right path and help them achieve the highest grade possible.   

This experience has provided me with infinite ways of personal and academic development, it helped me to cope with hard situations and how to work under indescribable pressure; the majority of the time I get put at ease by the own thought that there are many people which can count on me to help them in any way I can.