Sunday, May 12, 2019
Week 13
One thing that this class has tremendously helped me improve on is my independence. I had taken a few independent online courses this year but nothing like this class. It was very lax other than the due dates at the end of the week, and this helped me prepare for the independence of college. I would have to plan out my week in advance so I knew when I needed to get things done, and when I could focus on other things. This class overall will help me next year because it gave me the first taste of independence while doing work. Next year I am going to have to plan out my weeks to get long term assignments done before the last minute. I am overall grateful for this class and the independence it has helped me improve.
Sunday, May 5, 2019
Week 12
1. Having to move on to unfamiliar territory and/or new adventures is what allows leaders to stretch and grow. So, does, (or did), your project stretch, challenge, and/or engage you? Explain
My project definitely engaged me, and took me out of my comfort zone a little bit. Coaching is something that I have always found myself good at, and passionate about. A dream of mine is to coach at the professional or college level, so this was a very good taste of what that could be like. It also took me out of my comfort zone a little bit. I have never been able to control children that well and every time I try it ends in disaster. This project has helped me learn how to command kids attention in a good way, and get my message across clearly.
2. Sometimes the greatest act of courage is to follow one's heart and do the right thing, even if it is not popular or does not seem politically correct. What is your "North Star", that thing that most drives you when you have to make a hard decision? Do you give yourself permission to make hard decisions without necessarily having it all figured out? Are you willing to step into ambiguity when the occasion calls for it? (Once you summon the courage to take this step, it often opens up wonderful new possibilities that otherwise might have remained closed or hidden.) Share your answer, thoughts, and examples.
Throughout my life, I have had to make many hard decisions. Whenever I am doing this, there is a little voice in the back of my head that is telling me to look at myself after I have made the decision, and see if it benefited me, and how. This is how I tend to go about making tough decisions, the most recent being college. I looked at my top three schools, and I pictured myself at each one. After weighing out all the variables, I chose the school that I could see myself succeeding at the most.
3. Are you willing to risk being wrong? Sometimes leadership takes having the courage to make hard decisions based on the best information you have, knowing that you could be wrong. Do you have an example of this? (Share)
I can risk being wrong, but I do not enjoy it. In football, sometimes it is hard for the coaches to get a defensive call in for each position, after each play. They can have many things going in and in critical moments sometimes we have to improvise. In a game this past season, it was a critical fourth down play and our coach wasn't giving us a signal from the sideline. I had to take matters into my own hands and call a play for the defense. Because I had watched film and familiarized myself with their offense, I guesses the play that they would run, and picked our defense that would best stop it. I went with my gut and turned out to make the perfect call, but it could have gone terribly wrong. In the moment I do not think about the outcome, I just take action. That is who I am, and it usually serves me well.
4. Do you give yourself credit for those tough decisions that nobody else sees? Explain.
I feel like I give myself enough credit for these decisions, but it is important to stay humble to be a successful leader. You know that you came up clutch, and that is all that really matters. It doesn't matter if everyone on the team is praising you for making the right call, because in the end it was a call made for the greater good of the team and if it as successful, thats all that matters.
My project definitely engaged me, and took me out of my comfort zone a little bit. Coaching is something that I have always found myself good at, and passionate about. A dream of mine is to coach at the professional or college level, so this was a very good taste of what that could be like. It also took me out of my comfort zone a little bit. I have never been able to control children that well and every time I try it ends in disaster. This project has helped me learn how to command kids attention in a good way, and get my message across clearly.
2. Sometimes the greatest act of courage is to follow one's heart and do the right thing, even if it is not popular or does not seem politically correct. What is your "North Star", that thing that most drives you when you have to make a hard decision? Do you give yourself permission to make hard decisions without necessarily having it all figured out? Are you willing to step into ambiguity when the occasion calls for it? (Once you summon the courage to take this step, it often opens up wonderful new possibilities that otherwise might have remained closed or hidden.) Share your answer, thoughts, and examples.
Throughout my life, I have had to make many hard decisions. Whenever I am doing this, there is a little voice in the back of my head that is telling me to look at myself after I have made the decision, and see if it benefited me, and how. This is how I tend to go about making tough decisions, the most recent being college. I looked at my top three schools, and I pictured myself at each one. After weighing out all the variables, I chose the school that I could see myself succeeding at the most.
3. Are you willing to risk being wrong? Sometimes leadership takes having the courage to make hard decisions based on the best information you have, knowing that you could be wrong. Do you have an example of this? (Share)
I can risk being wrong, but I do not enjoy it. In football, sometimes it is hard for the coaches to get a defensive call in for each position, after each play. They can have many things going in and in critical moments sometimes we have to improvise. In a game this past season, it was a critical fourth down play and our coach wasn't giving us a signal from the sideline. I had to take matters into my own hands and call a play for the defense. Because I had watched film and familiarized myself with their offense, I guesses the play that they would run, and picked our defense that would best stop it. I went with my gut and turned out to make the perfect call, but it could have gone terribly wrong. In the moment I do not think about the outcome, I just take action. That is who I am, and it usually serves me well.
4. Do you give yourself credit for those tough decisions that nobody else sees? Explain.
I feel like I give myself enough credit for these decisions, but it is important to stay humble to be a successful leader. You know that you came up clutch, and that is all that really matters. It doesn't matter if everyone on the team is praising you for making the right call, because in the end it was a call made for the greater good of the team and if it as successful, thats all that matters.
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