1. 3 people I would consider to be effective leaders in society today are my youth group leader, President Obama, and the celebrities that organized and participated in the Hope for Haiti telethon. My youth group Alison influences other teens and myself by volunteering our time to help others that can benefit from our help with using my religion. She makes the projects fun, but they also get the message across by helping others. It can even be something we consider small, but in reality it could improve someone's life. My youth group went to Kansas City in November 2009 for NCYC (National Catholic Youth Convention). The amount of planning and organization that went into the convention was incredible. I consider them effective leaders because they tried to make us teens have an incredible experiment while we were there and encourage us to help others when we returned home.
Another effective leader for me is President Obama. Despite the economic downfall in the previous months and everything that has happened in the last year since he took office, Obama has done a good job of keeping the nation at peace. The event on Christmas Day caused some curiosity from people because it brought up the security of air travel again. Also with the pass of the health care bill, we can all benefit from this achievement that will help with the creation of new medical technology as well as improvements in the overall health of others with new practices and methods of medicine. Obama will hopefully continue the positive changes in the US.
The celebrities that participated in the Hope For Haiti Telethon are my last choice for effective leaders today. Overall, the telethon raised $51 million dollars for Haitian relief. After the devastation of the earthquake in Haiti, people all over the world are donating money for supplies and necessities needed in Haiti. In that case, I guess we can all be potential leaders. Even though it may not seem like much donating $5 for the cause, the $5 can supply food and water to those in Haiti. The amount of time planning and organizing the telethon is incredible. With over 10 performances and 50 celebrities answering the phones while people called in to donate. The telethon was organized in a little over a week, and it was spectacular to watch. Although the devastation in Haiti is horrific, we all joined together to help others.
2. Some of the qualities I think these leaders possess are determination and confidence. I have some sense of determination, depending on the situations, along with confidence. I think a leader needs both of these qualities in order to succeed because you need a reason to why you are being a leader and you need determination and confidence in yourself and others to achieve success in the goals you are trying to reach. Without confidence and determination, you will only settle for the minimum and not even think of all the other possibilities that can occur with the 2 qualities.
3. My definition of leadership is the ability to guide or lead others in order to achieve goals.
4. I am taking this class because I am shy, but I have a good amount of determination and a want to help others by using the skills that I learn in Leadership Seminar to apply them to my life outside of school and in the future. I think I can make a difference by loosing my shyness and using my determination to help those that can benefit from my help.
5. In the initiative today, I thought I contributed, but not as much as I could. From where I was in the knot, I was in a separate knot with 2 other people so it wasn't too hard to figure out, but there was another chain that was linked inside us. Every move the other chain made was frustrating because it seemed like there was no way for them to leave our circle.
I learned from this experience that things not always happen as quickly as you imagined and that in order to have success you need patience. I have patience, but the human knot was different for me because we were done so much earlier than everyone else so we had to wait for everyone else to finish. Also, I couldn't see because of the tall people in our class that were in my way, so I felt like I couldn't help with the knot that was struggling in the middle of the circle. I will work on these in the future by speaking up more and not holding back if it will help others.
I learned as a group that our class overall has good communication in trying to solve tough situations, but I feel some other people gave up because they had little patience. I think we all perceived that the human knot would be a lot easier, but with the bandanas it was different and it seemed to cause more issues to overcome to succeed.
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