Leadership Post

My computer has been acting up lately. Here is my post about leadership:

Taking this class has definitely brought new character traits and skills to light. Being a leader is more than having an outgoing personality. It’s also more than being the one in charge of everything or the one doing all the work. I’ve learned in this class the importance of having a strong personality, but also that it is not the only necessary trait of a leader. A good leader needs to be able to delegate when necessary, rather than doing everything on her own. A leader should know the strengths and weaknesses of other people on her team and work towards those. I think if I had to pick one form of leadership that I identify with the most as we go through the readings in class, I would say that I am a situational leader. I let the different situations I am in determine the kind of leader I am. Every situation is a little different, so why shouldn’t the leader be as well?

A little bit stressed.

Lately nothing technological of mine has been working. It has made turning in assignments and other activities for school very difficult and has put me behind. Also, every single FYE event is during one of my classes, so I don't understand how I am supposed to make it to one. I'm just going a little crazy right now and do not even know what to write for this blog tonight.

Back on Track

Today, the girls in the One Girl Program finally got to go to our first trip to Walnut Springs Middle School! It will truly be a time management lesson as we only get to spend half an hour with the girls. The girls are all in 8th grade, and today we all participated in an ice breaker over TimBits and chocolate milk. Each of the girls (ourselves included) wrote down an interesting fact about ourselves and then turned them in. The facts were then read aloud and the girls had to try and guess which girl went with each fact. As tired as everyone at Otterbein is of ice breakers, it was a good way to get to know a little about the girls in the program, and also a good way for us to asses what kind of girls we were working with. We have already had some small bullying issues, and there are some clear cliques in the group already, but we hope to break through that and get these girls to be a good group of friends. I think this will be a good program.