My Leadership: My Definition Of Leadership

Leadership is defined in many different ways. In the Meriam-Webster dictionary it’s defined as a position as a leader of a group, organization, etc. The time when a person holds the position to lead, and lastly the power or ability to lead other people. To me, the definition of leadership means having the confidence, integrity, and ability to lead by example and do what’s right, so others will follow. To me leading comes naturally because people have always looked up to me. My earliest memory of leadership was the summer of my sophomore year in high school. We always had summer workouts leading up to football camp, which lead to our season. That summer, I knew my team needed to come together because the senior running back was not being a

My earliest memory of a leader was my mom. My mom has been my leader my entire life. Being a single mother, working multiple jobs where she helped people and they looked up to her to see if they are doing right or not was huge. I’d often go to work with her on the weekends and see that or I’d hear phone conversations of her talking to people leading and guiding them to stay on the right track. I never realized how much watching her lead people helped make me into the leader I am

I knew my team wouldn’t get far without me being a leader. They liked to win championships, but didn’t have a championship mentality. So, I knew if I stepped up that could all change and we could have undefeated seasons, and go to the championship games and we did. Something my mom did, which was very huge was teach me how to be a better leader being more vocal, not being afraid to let them know they can do better, an encourager, but most importantly she taught me in order to be a good leader you must know how to also follow. Being a leader isn’t telling people what to do and I never forgot