September 13th Meeting Reflection

1. Name of Cohort Meeting:What is leadership? What is a leader?

2. 3 Things I Learned:

• I learned that there is a multitude of different types of leadership.  Leadership can be moral or immoral.  So, basically, you can be an effective leader without being a truly good leader. 
• I was able to meet two new people who were unable to make the cohort meeting last week which was fun. I am excited to meet my mentor in two weeks and then go on the retreat and get closer to everyone.
• I learned that more people share my views on leadership than I would of thought.  We split into the two groups to design our leader and we ended up having many characteristics in common on our people, even though we did not collaborate.  I thought that was really neat.

3. My definition of leadership has not changed that much other than I would now consider intiative and innovation very important parts of being a good leader where as before I only considered them helpful, not necessary.  I changed this because I realized a leader who just keeps things running the way they have always been run is not truly an effective leader.

4. I think it means that they have expectations of their followers but they are also willing to get dirty helping out.  They do not just observe as others work, they help out too.

5. Picture:This is a picture of me (in the purple) with my intramural volleyball team.  I have taken on the position of captain. I was responsible for helping organize efforts to get teachers, make sure people sign up on time, and decide the line up and how we will rotate.  I also have to make sure each member of the team feels included and knows when and where our matches are.