After completing my leadership essay I learned a lot about who I am as a person and how to better understand what I need to do in order to help myself succeed. I always thought being a leader meant that you had to be the person in charge, but I learned that being a leader means just being a part of a team and fulfilling your role to help the team succeed. Everyone is a leader in their own way and I learned so much about how to enable myself to be a good leader while using my strengths to advocate me.
WOW (What's On Wednesday): At the WOW event we demonstrated leadership in the way that we worked as a team and demonstrated roles being played within our team. We had someone be our spokesperson and who ever had more information on a certain subject would be a key part for success in that category. If no one knew the answer we would discuss together as a team and come up with an answer by brainstorming with each other.
2018-2019
Intermural Soccer
Through this experience I developed team roles and team values. We all worked towards a common goal of wanting to acheive intermural soccer champions. I was an asset to the team in a few ways even though I am not a soccer expert. Some of my strengths that I brought to the team was that I was super excited and very optomistic for my team in tough situations. I was also very good at reading the player while on defense. Some of the areas that I needed improvement on I asked my friends who have played many years to help me with some skills such as where to be in certain situations as well as dribbling. I was a very beneficial experience in the aspect that it helped me learn too seek help from those who can assist me with my weaknesses to improve them. There were many roles throughout our team. Some of these were, but not limited to, team captain, fastest runner, scorer, most controlled with the ball, striker, positivity, and defense. The roles that I believe that I played on the team would have consisted of being positive and being a learner. By being positive and being a learner I tried my best to stay postivie and cheer for the team as well as trying my best to learn all about the sport to get better and improve. The roles that each team member played perfectly matched their strengthes and their personalities. I think each role benefited the team but with that if a teammate was abscent no one was versatile enough to cover the role that a particular team member had. Something to be worked on is to be a more versatile team member.
Reasearch Team
My research team was a great experience not only for my research competency but for developing my leadership skills. Working with graduate students really pushed me to provide more thoughtful and quality work due to being set to different standards. Some of the roles that I played were being the undergraduate student who would apply for the Undergraduate Research Grant to help us fund for our research study. I worked on documents such as the poster for presentation, URC Grant, Teacher blurb (explaining to the teacher what the results of our study were), as well as the results graphs. I also took part in data collection to gather data for our study every week. My graduate students helped apply for the IRB and helped edit my documents and scanned for errors. My graduate students were always there whenever I had questions or needed assistance on any of our materials. Also, the professor I worked with who overlooked the research also helped with data collection and gave feedback about our work. Everyone used their strengths to play their roles for this team. I worked with documents and organization as well as graphs because I was good with organization and Microsoft Excel. I learned a lot from my experience as a member of the research team. I learned how to work cohesively in a professional setting to meet deadlines. I also learned how to effectively present my study to others in a professional, effective, and efficient way. This will be beneficial in the future if I have to present any information to a group of people to get a point across effectively. Also this experience of research and putting together information to make an overall statement will be beneficial in the business world fo work.