I was smiling and laughing while many on the plane were vomiting. This was the most fun I’d had on a flight, but not everyone seemed to share my excitement. They had good reason for anxiety; we had endured a turbulent, and were now circling Columbus unable to land. This started my experience at Winter Guard International World Championships in my junior year. Just a few days prior, the Catalyst Color Guard, the team of which I am currently captain, won the Texas Color Guard Circuit State Championships. We earned the highest score in the 10-year history of our program after an incredibly successful season. What enabled us to succeed this past season was the leadership. As a junior and first lieutenant, I felt more confident in my own leadership skills and experience, and I was better equipped to serve my team this year. Our improved leadership style and work ethic improved our team as a whole. Our score increased with each …show more content…
To make it even harder to focus, we could hear the music of another guard’s performance throughout warmup. I encouraged my team to stay focus on how we want to perform. As we prepared to perform, several girls began crying and hugging as if we were already done. I talked to each girl I passed and told them that it was time to focus and to show this crowd how good we are. That performance was the perfect ending to the season; it was everything we had worked for. However, we weren’t done yet; we still had to fold our floor, put away our flags, and get ready for the awards ceremony. On our way to put away our equipment, one of my girls started crying and apologizing for a mistake she had made, afraid that she compromised the show. I told her immediately that whatever score we made, we earned it as a team. I comforted her with my own struggles of perfectionism and feelings of inadequacy, but those feelings don’t necessarily reflect our
Sergeant Coller understands that leadership is not just the act of directing. He demonstrates leadership by setting the example. He is to be commended for his work ethic and performance as an officer and a leader of the Tampa Police
Sweat plummeting down their faces as they catapult yet another girl into the air; each flyer aiming higher than the last go rounds. Their whole body aches and begs for a moment of rest, but they never surrender to the pain. For the hundredth time, they’ve reviewed their two minute routine and for the hundredth time they tumbled non-stop. Knowing that all this hard-work, had the ability to raise a smile onto the face of someone watching. Knowing that at every game, they can provide the match, to lighten up the mood.
For some time the Army has been using a certain expression to defines what an Army leader actually is. To keep it basic, the three words be, know and do explains it all!
The group that I have always felt like I fit in the most throughout all of my life, would have to be my high school Color Guard. Color Guard was always the thing I turned to when I was upset, or simply just had a lot on my mind. To tell you about my Color Guard, I will first have to tell you a bit about the town I grew up in. I grew up in the small town of Antlers, Oklahoma where we had two stoplights, a small school, a dollar general, and a small array of family-owned businesses and restaurants. This small town has never been excellent at any sports or academics, but, we have always had the reputation of having a great band and Color Guard. I never fully realized how great and truly life changing this group was until I became a member of The Pride of Antlers Bearcat Marching Band and Color Guard. Color Guard, despite the stereotypes, has not only been a life changing experience for me but has also helped shape me into the person I am today by teaching me how to be a leader, how it feels to be a performer, and even how to work with a group of girls, and truly be part of a team.
The best leadership accomplishment that demonstrates my potential to make significant contributions to the campus community and broader society is cheerleading. Cheerleading has made a huge impact on my life and has created many opportunities for me. It has paved the way for my high school career. Cheerleading provided me with opportunities to lead, volunteer, perform and show the athletic ability of our squad.
When I entered the airplane I was as excited as a 6-year-old could be about losing the people she loved the most. The greatest aspect of my fear was the idea of losing my mother. As a child, I always
Despite not being a part of over 20 different organizations, as some claim to be, being a part of a smaller number of groups has allowed me to focus on developing my leadership skills more thoroughly than I could otherwise. Not spreading myself too thin has made me much more committed and involved in the organizations that I am a part of, making my influences so much stronger. I firmly believe that I am trying my absolute best not only in school, but in leaving my comfort zone and being an active member in our community. I am honored that I have been considered for such a prestigious invitation as
I believe the chain of command is important in a police agency for many reasons. It is a roadmap that shows the route within the organization that order would flow coming down through the organization or that requests flow going up the organization, like a two-way street. The chain of command also establishes formal lines of communication within the department for organizational purposes and it must be used by everyone to communicate formally. This will eliminate crucial departmental problems. For example, if the chief administrative level does not follow the chain of command downward and gives an order directly to the patrol officer, this could cause confusion. For example, the supervisory level might feel that it is alright to do the same thing sending information up the chain. The purpose of the chain of command is to show individuals who their bosses are, from the chief
Leadership in the field of law enforcement has been defined by many individuals, by the individuals, who work in the profession, by the individuals who are served by the profession, and by the individuals who monitor and scrutinize the profession. Leadership in law enforcement can at times provide leadership to subordinates, community members, and government officials and groups.
Early in my tenure at Taco Bell, I demonstrated leadership qualities, which opened the door to a Team leader position. However, I just became a Team member at Taco Bell because they needed me to be full time, but with college I knew school came first. Although, Taco Bell’s complex franchise structure that included a diverse workforce, it refined valuable communication, time management and stress control skills with customers. This position made me work well in teams because that’s how we got challenges accomplish, but I had to be a leader for my team to stand out and work two times harder than the average worker when things got rough. Furthermore, the team that I was a part of on a daily basis develop my skills that guided my successful relationships
The United States Army is the best Army in the world. We go fearlessly into battle and never accept defeat. This is instilled in us from our superiors, our leaders, upon our entrance into the army and for the rest of our military career. The leaders of the United States Army are the people who make us the best Army in the world, they are the ones who not only install fearlessness into everyone, but organize everything and make everything possible. They do this by following two main army procedures. These procedures are the Operations Process and Troop Leading Procedures. These processes are what drive the Army and are not only done by commissioned officers, but noncommissioned officers as well.
Finally Friday came. The tournament lasted for about three hours, peppered with constant complaints, arguments, and threatened fist fights. To my own disbelief, we lost -- by one point! For the rest of the night I rationalized our loss by creating stories of how they must have cheated, accented by remarks about the character blemishes of their mothers. I just kept saying that we were still the best and it didn't matter that we had lost. By the end of the night no one was speaking to me, not even my partner in the competition. I finally snuck off and went home. All the way, I could feel myself choking on ...
Even though this program has just begun, I am beginning to appreciate the dedication and willingness to instill the fundamental concepts to effectively lead. The orientation last week was a very insightful and eye-opening experience that allowed me to ultimately understand the amount of invaluable skills that are needed to accomplish a single task. For example, one of the tasks was to uncover the exact path to walk from one side to the other without setting off any hypothetical bombs. In that one task, it was important for everyone to exude patience and the willingness to hear a variety of opinions on the right course of action. The ability for all of us to effectively execute a proper plan and work as a cohesive team was the one of the only
We got into our lines, behind groups of excited families and happy little old men and women. As the line ascended up the ramp onto this enormous water vessel, pictures were taken of every group of passengers. Smile, laugh and look happy! Riiight. As a matter of fact, I was pretty anxious. I'd never been on a boat like this, and especially not for a whole week.
As an instructor I was humbled to share my passion for aviation with the other boys in the troop. I felt very excited as I taught the aviation merit badge and gave many boys the opportunity to see the world of aviation from the controlled tower of the local airport where they observed the air traffic controllers in action and then experienced flying in a Cessna aircraft. Described by adults as mature for my age, I felt ready to commit to progressive leadership roles, attended the Youth Leadership Training and ultimately was voted by the adult leaders to lead the entire troop. I was proud of my role, and committed to my very best every day as Senior Patrol Leader. I was flattered to be chosen over many others. At the time, as a junior in high school with three Advanced Placement classes and with a junior college course, I had to focus my very limited time on the right tasks. The perseverance I had learned growing up through adversity fueled me through the long working weekends. I kept focused on my responsibility to do my duty to myself and grow as a person, and do well in school while doing my duty to others. Often I had to prioritize to meet deadlines and to get my studying done to keep up my 4.5 GPA. I felt proud as I successfully lead my troop while simultaneously volunteering to coach at my waterpolo club while also working on my Eagle