At Saint Pius X, I serve as a teen youth group leader. This experience has been life changing as it has helped develop me into the person I am today. Through my years as a teen leader, I have learned how to cooperate with others, plan events, and be held accountable. As a leader of this group, my job is to lead or youth group nights. Furthermore, we have monthly leadership meeting, where we plan what will come at the next youth group. On the leadership team, I’m one of two leaders who is a senior. Therefore, leading my other team members, that are also on the leadership, to look up to me. One specific leadership event that I participated in was a retreat where I was a middle school group leader. Consequently, the impact this event had on me was monumental. …show more content…
I was in charge of a group of middle schoolers. However, the retreat went flawlessly, the girls truly looked up to me. Such as, when preparing for mass, the girls were fighting over whose hair would be curled by me. We were all together and it felt as if I had 10 little loving sisters. This experience truly changed my view on being a leader. Those girls in my group looked up to me and made me aware of how much of an impact I am able to have on other people's lives. The lesson of the retreat was that we are all princesses in God's eyes. We are all special in our unique ways. To be able to teach young girls that they are valuable and worth something and that no one can take that away from them, that is life changing. I was able to have an impact on these young teens and I am so grateful that I was able to do
Overall, I was grateful for this experience. I was able to find out more about the behind the scenes responsibilities of our schools’ leadership.
My most fulfilling leadership experience would have to be starting the 4-H Medical Careers Spin Club. I started the club three years ago, to allow teens to have opportunities to experience the medical field before they spend money on a career they may end up not liking. The Club has been able to tour medical schools, hospitals, cancer centers, and many other facilities. I was instrumental in getting three teens in the club to apply and get accepted to Southern Illinois University School of Medicine Physician Pipeline Preparatory Program I am involved in. Countless people in the medical field kept wanting to help me gain medical opportunities, but HR departments and HIPAA rules kept getting in the way. Through this experience, I learned that
As an active leader in several organizations, I have had the opportunity to reach out to several different groups of youth throughout my years. The utmost prestigious role I have gained is my Area IX Office in the Texas FFA Association. Being an area IX officer had been my goal since freshman year, and I finally accomplished it this past May. Over the course of the past few months, we have held several leadership camps, but I feel our highest success has been the Area IX FFA Leadership Camp held in June.
Being a leader is no simple task. During my Eagle Scout project, I lead a range of people, from adults to youth. It was my job to make sure everyone was working and, that everyone was capable of doing their task. I had many issues doing this throughout my project because I am only one person and I can’t be everywhere at once. Thusly made being a leader a drudgery. But I had an incredible set of adults guiding me along the way, who taught me that being a leader was not doing everything myself, being a leader
Out of all leadership opportunities I have had, one stands out to me the most. The biggest event I was the leader of, was when I was in charge of the camping at Marquette Kennel Club's 2016 AKC dog show. I volunteered to be the the leader of camping, because in years past it had been a mess for the Marquette Kennel Club, and the exhibitors. Exhibitors in the past never made reservations, so when I took charge I decided that having camping reservations on the entry form was crucial. It was a lot of work organizing all of the reservations, and dealing with people but surprisingly I enjoyed it. I took joy in knowing that that would be the largest year yet for camping, and that maybe next year there could be even more people. The three characteristics
Since elementary school I have been in Celina's Boy Scout Troop 69. Starting as a Tiger cub and after many years eventually becoming a Boy Scout. 10 years later it is my last year of being a Boy Scout and I will be aging out in April. From building fires, tying knots, and learning first aid, scouting has taught me life skills that I will never forget. The greatest lesson of all though has to be grasping the skills of being a leader. The character and roles of a leader are very important for everyone to understand. But they can also be hard to grasp. I was 16 and decided to run for the position of SPL or Senior Patrol Leader. The SPL is in charge on all troop activities and is tasked with running things smoothly. The
I have been given several opportunities to teach these skills to younger girls, including organizing the San Francisco Girl Scout Skills Camporee training, where we trained Girl Scouts of all ages for the annual Skills Camporee. For multiple years in a row, girls in my troop and I organized and designed the training activities for this event. Events like this have improved my leadership abilities and inspired me to continue learning as a Girl Scout. Of all of the amazing experiences that I have gotten from Girl Scouts, the most important to me has been the opportunities to meet hundreds of other inspired young women and help them enrich their own lives through Girl Scout programs. Through my troop, I was connected with DWEN, Dell Women’s Entrepreneurship Network.
These are people who in one week, not only became lifelong friends and mentors, but were able to teach me valuable lessons about life, friendship, and leadership that I will carry with me throughout life. The group leaders were able to teach me lessons that I would not have gotten anywhere else. The National Youth and Leadership Forum opened many opportunities for me as a young adult and I would not have changed it for the world. The conference taught me not only leadership skills but allowed me to meet people and form bonds that I never thought
As one gets older, leadership becomes a huge part of who they are and how they carry themselves. Are they able to take on responsibilities, express their opinions and make decisions among their peers? Are they respectable and reliable and therefore able to inspire and support others? Are they outgoing, and positive? All essential for a leader. Throughout the past 4 years, I have taken on several leadership roles. I have become more involved in my church. I have taken on more responsibilities in 4-H and Kane County Ambassadors. I have participated in high school cheerleading, and competitive All-Star cheerleading. Participation in these organizations has allowed me to develop outstanding leadership skills.
I’d like to thank everyone for coming this evening, and thank my classmates for giving me the opportunity to speak before you. For those of you who don’t know, Greater Green Bay Teen Leadership is a group composed of sophomores, graduating in 2020, from several high schools in the Greater Green Bay area. We joined this program to focus on the advancement of our leadership and the development of subsequent skills – all with the goal of creating a vision and implementing these learnings into our everyday life.
One of the things I was put in charge of was translating. I was able to translate a sermon we put on for the kids at a vacation bible school type of camp. That was super challenging to know that people were dependent on me, but it is also where I began to see where God had blessed me in my life and where I could be used on this trip. How lucky was I to be given the capability to speak Spanish fluently? It was at this moment that I finally became thankful for the talents God had given me. The trip opened my eyes and I was grateful for the opportunity to share what God had given to me. Another task we had the privilege of helping them with was building them a new chicken coop. We built a new roof and cleaned it up so that the chickens wouldn’t get so hot. The tricky part was communicating that we built exactly what they wanted. Therefore I was there to both help construct, but also help get communication between us and the owners under control. I remember having to go on the road to pick up some supplies. I was with my dad and one of the workers at the orphanage. The actual supply run was not what made the event memorable, it was actually when we stopped for coffee. We were able to sit down and ask him questions. I remember asking why he did what he did, like I just didn’t understand why, he did not make much money and it was not easy what he did. He simply looked at me and said that he loved serving the
There have been several communities that I have been a part of over the course of my life, but none have impacted me more than the Boy Scouts of America. When I first began this program, I was mostly interested in the fun activities that my troop offered such as camping, woodworking, and firearms shooting. However, I began to learn some very important skills from my scout experience. I was taught how to be both a good citizen and a leader by assigning positions to me starting with small responsibilities to larger positions such as patrol leader, which managed campouts, merit badges, and other events in the troop. By taking on these roles, I was able to practice my leadership skills by helping others and leading by example.
I joined Girl Scouts when I was six years old and continued with it until my senior year of high school. Without Girl Scouts, I know I would not be where I am today. By the time I entered high school, my troop consisted of a mere eight girls. Despite that small number, we were able to take on big projects that our leader gave us entire control over. It is because of these events—Girls Night Out, the Father Daughter Dance, and Spa Night to name a few—that I learned how to be a leader. Planning these events taught me how to organize, manage my time, and delegate tasks. Being a leader was never something I was thrilled to do, but Girl Scouts forced me out of my comfort zone and taught me skills I will use for the rest of my life.
I am lucky enough to say that I have had a variety of leadership opportunities and experiences in my life that have led me to be the person I am today. Many of these experiences came from involvement in wrestling, Boy Scouts of America, volunteer projects, friendships, and different employment opportunities. I recurrently underestimate the degree of impact these experiences have had on my life. Although a considerable amount of these have been positive experiences, some of them have definitely been quite challenging. But all have played their part in molding and shaping my personality and values.
Discuss a leadership experience you have had in any area of your life - school, work, athletics, family, church, community, etc. How and why did you become a leader in this area? How did this experience influence your goals?