Personal Reflection

Each step in Kouzes and Posner book helped improved myself as a leader and also as a person. Before reading the book, I contradicted myself, didn’t take risk, nor did I show my appreciation of others hard work. Following a few of the commitment the book had to offer and finding a location to utilize it, I noticed the differences. When I was in the leadership club in high school, I felt you needed to have power, persuading ability, and take pride. Being the kid that enjoyed and all those factors, I noticed that wasn’t whom I wanted to become. It made me sensitive to every failure, lose confidence in oneself, and just all around reduce my ability to take risk. That’s why my first year and a half of my college year I just went to school and went

One prime example is when I tutor a high school family member. I would chat with them about their wellbeing and interest to understand them more. A cousin name Stacy no interest in education. This would inconvenience me because I am there to help improve her education. Being a millennial that would before to be behind the scene then be in front, she wasn’t outspoken about herself. She was failing her classes to the point she had to be put in a continuation school. I helped improved her ability in school by bringing up her interest in web designing. I had also praise for her hard work when she passed her exam or do well on a paper. After listening to what I have to stay, she is now applying for community college for a certificate in web design and development. She struggled in keeping focus in class because she believes they have no relation to her or her interest. Stacy was willing to challenge herself because I shared with her my story of how I didn’t have money, starved, and even became homeless but, I still kept focus, attend a university, and work full time. Just in this situation, Kouzes and Posner helped me as a person to enable others to act and encourage the heart. Just by changing and helping one person find their values, I showed my ability as a leader. I don’t need to influence a large crowd. As long I can inspire one person, that there makes

This being what kind of leader I am, it would make me a transformational leader. A transformational leader idealized charismatic influence, inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation, and individualized consideration (Stone, Russel & Patterson, 2004). They would oversee every person in affect, even themselves. One example why I’m a transformational leader is because from being part of over five clubs, tennis team, and two leadership organization, I had to have the mentality of a leader and a follower. Being the treasurer of most of the programs I was in, I had to sought ideas on how to save our organization money, while also keeping the satisfaction of our team members. Because I valued the programs more, I would have to make cut backs on activities the student wanted to do. I once had to cut off going to the Lion King Play in Los Angeles because we were falling short of 400 dollars. I didn’t want to make the team disappointed and so I found an alternative where we watched our school school play The Little Shop of Horrors free. The production would’ve charged us for each person costing 15 dollars per person, but because I helped them before and I knew the production teacher at the time, they offered us front seats to the play. It wasn’t comparable to the elegant 75$ ticket play of The Lion King, but it