Reflection Of Leadership: My Role As A Student

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Leadership Paper A leader embodies many characteristics, motivating and inspiring people to bring about change. In the counseling profession leadership is essential, but as a student, it is confusing to understand my role as a leader. Although I have been in various leadership positions, integrating those characteristics into a cohesive style is difficult. West, Bubenz, Osborn, Paez, and Desmond discuss the importance for counseling students to develop a leadership vision and create a plan of implementation. Through this reflection, my goal is to cohesively integrate my qualities and skills and create my own leadership plan.
Personality and Personal Qualities Of all the components of a leader, I believe personality and personal qualities are most important. I have come to understand my personality fairly well, and with the help of the MBTI, it is clear how those qualities influence to my leadership …show more content…

Interpersonally, I am not a patient person and that also emerges when working with others. I often find myself finishing tasks myself because I do not wait to wait around for others. As a leader, this would be counterproductive and leave me overwhelmed. Also, I could improve my flexibility. In a leadership role, I tend to like things to be completed my way, but I have begun to give up some control and be more flexible when working with others. Flexibility is important as a leader because things will never run completely smooth, and it is important for leaders to adapt to changes or shortcomings. I also find that I need to improve on my own self-reflection as a leader. Although this paper is helpful, improving on this interpersonal characteristic would be extremely helpful when I am in a leadership position to understand my thoughts and choices better. Overall, utilizing and improving my interpersonal and interpersonal characteristics would be greatly beneficial as a

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