Leadership

Leadership is a skill that I had not really taken time to develop coming into the Honors Program. I had some leadership experience from extra curricular activities in high school, but I certainly did not and do not consider myself someone who naturally gravitates towards leadership opportunities or consider myself a natural leader. Furthermore, I had a very narrow conception of leadership that was limited to seeing it as being a distinctly authoritative quality that was used in formal leadership positions. It was not that I did not consider leadership to be that way universally, more so that I only thought of leadership being used by myself in such scenarios, which was not often. During my time in the Honors Program I have been able to learn about my strengths and how I can use them to my advantage in leadership. I also learned to reflect on leadership that I use in less formal positions. Collectively, my experiences have allowed me to create a defined leadership style; a democratic style by default, but ultimately one reliant on communication and fitting the needs of the situation and position I am in.

 

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