hdf 415: flite peer leadership portfolio emily carlone spring 2011 [email protected]
TRANSCRIPT
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Strengths Opening Statement
SLIDE 4Section 1: Self Leadership
SLIDE 5Section 2: Leadership Theories
SLIDE 6Section 3: Inclusive Leadership
SLIDE 7Section 4: Critical Thinking
SLIDE 8Section 5: Interpersonal/Organizational Leadership
SLIDE 9
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Strengths Opening Statement
SLIDE 4Section 1: Self Leadership
SLIDE 5Section 2: Leadership Theories
SLIDE 6Section 3: Inclusive Leadership
SLIDE 7Section 4: Critical Thinking
SLIDE 8Section 5: Interpersonal/Organizational Leadership
SLIDE 9
Signature Strengths Restorative
EmpathyContextLearnerAcheiver
Values in Action StrengthsGratitude
Humor and PlayfulnessJudgement, critical thinking, and open-mindedness
Appreciation for beauty and excellenceCapacity to love and be loved
OPENING STATEMENT
Being a FLITE peer leader has taught me so much about myself as a leader. I gained information about my strengths, values, personal leadership style, and how I behave
as a mentor. Through the next few slides I will be highlighting specific areas that I have seen personal growth in and have added to my self discovery as a leader. These areas include practice of a personal code of ethics, knowledge of servant leadership, practice of being a change agent, examples of leadership in crisis
situations and successful techniques for working with difficult people. Mastering these areas of leadership will help me in the future when I graduate with a bachelor of science degree as a communicative disorders major. It will help me even further when I plan to pursue a career in a school setting as a speech language pathologist.
Overall, the leadership skills I have gained from this experience have made me a more confident and independent person. I will undoubtedly use my new found
knowledge and reach the best of my potential in whatever I do.
SECTION 1SELF LEADERSHIP
7. Student will demonstrate practice of the personal code of ethics
Breadth: Being an RA and the situations I encountered during my employment. Depth:
This semester my personal code of ethics was challenged more than it was been in my entire life.I came across a situation as an RA where I had incriminating information about other RA’s on my staff. My dilemma was, do I tell my supervisor the information and snitch on my co-workers who are also close friends and get them fired, or do I keep the information to myself and risk losing my own job as well? This situation haunted me for a very long time, but looking back I feel like I stood next to my values and made a decision that I was comfortable with. I value friendship and loyalty and I would hope all of my friends would agree. Even though society might have seen my decision as unethical, I kept the information to myself and did not tell on my co-workers. Sadly, this decision did not have the best of consequences for any of us involved, but I learned a lot from the whole situation. I learned that I would rather have been loyal to my friends, and had all three of us get fired, than be the RA that ratted out her friends, but got to keep her job. I learned that the guidelines of my job are there for a reason, and in the future I should probably react differently. If I could go back in time, I probably would have responded differently, by either confronting my co-workers for putting me in a compromising situation, or sharing the information with someone in authority who I trusted to keep it anonymous. Overall, I put my personal code of ethics into practice, and whether I was successful or not, I remained true to myself.
SECTION 2Leadership Theory and Models
24. Student will show knowledge of the “Servant Leadership” theory of leadership by Greenleaf
Breadth: My experiences as a FLITE peer leader
Depth: Servant leadership is the most selfless form of leadership. The leader is partaking in whatever form of leadership they are doing for the sole purpose of helping others. Servant leadership has ten defining characteristics; listening, empathy, healing, awareness, persuasion, conceptualization, foresight, stewardship, commitment to the growth of people, and building community. When a leader does all these things they are becoming a servant and dedicating their time and talent to the welfare of others.Looking back on this theory from a Peer Mentor perspective is very refreshing. I can now see more clearly that servant leadership is an act of gift giving. Leaders are giving their gift of leadership to others to watch them have the success and how they can achieve something on their own. Servant leaders are not boastful or aggressive, they are humble and respectful and enjoy basking in the success of others. They like to sit back and watch the domino effect of their influence flourish into something magnificent and productive. I find Servant leadership to be the most poetic of all the theories and ultimately the most beautiful.
SECTION 3Inclusive Leadership / Diversity and its application to leadership
65. Student will describe personal examples of being a change agent
Breadth: FLITE day of discovery
Depth: Throughout my college career I feel that I have been lucky enough to make an impact on the university. A specific time in which I believe I acted as a change agent was at the FLITE day of discovery. I was sitting with my small group and we were discussing the controversial topics of gender, socioeconomic status, race and ethnicity, and sexual orientation.
These are probably topics that these students have never sat down and really discussed in detail before. I felt honored to watch these students view each topic in a new light as each student shared their own experiences and interpretations. I facilitated the
group discussion in a way that would foster each students opinion while still being respectful and cautious. By the end of the activity I feel like all the students had a more open mind and were beginning to view the world through a different lens. Even
though the change that started in their minds was minimal, I knew that I helped contribute to it, making me an agent of change.
SECTION 4Critical Thinking
77. Student will describe examples of leadership in crisis situations
Breadth: RA experiencesDepth: Being an RA presents many crisis situations.Whenever I am assigned to be on-call I never know what is going to happen and any situation could be thrown at me. One night, two of my residents got in a physical fist fight and I was the RA in the
hallway that had to handle it. I tried as hard as I could to remember the protocol for this type of situation that I had learned in RA training, but it was difficult to do with all the adrenaline pumping through my veins. My first instinct was to separate the two boys. I brought one
into my room, and called for backup and another RA took the other resident. The resident I was trying to calm down had a bloody noise and was extremely violent and defensive. I used my most assertive voice to try and calm him down while asking him what had caused
the fight. Before I could get any answers out of him, the campus police showed up at my dorm and arrested him. After that, the situation was under their control, but I think I did a good job of remaining calm and keeping the other residents calm. I told them all to stay in their rooms and avoid congregating in the hallway. I also didn't shutdown and get scared, I was assertive and maintained the situation until the
police got there. Overall, I think I possessed characteristics of a good leader by keeping the atmosphere calm and preventing anyone
from getting hurt any further.
SECTION 5(Interpersonal and Organizational Concepts and Skills )
89. Student will describe personal examples of using techniques to work effectively with difficult people
Breadth: Off campus job at a coffee shop
Depth: A specific example in which I dealt with a difficult person at work happened several months ago during one of the blizzards we had this winter. It was very early in the morning, and the customer came in all flustered because they had to walk through the snow because no one had shoveled our parking lot yet. The customer gave me an ear full about how if anyone slipped we could be
sued and how we were being careless and inconsiderate of the people who had to be out in this weather. As much as I wanted to tell the customer that I didn't want to be awake at 6:30am to go to work either, I apologized for the status of our parking lot and told her we were
doing everything we could to expedite the shoveling process. Next, I made the customer’s coffee and watched her sit at a table in the corner to read her morning paper. She was still disgruntled and had a perturbed look on her face. Since the shop was pretty slow, I made
her a small cup of hot cocoa with whipped cream and brought it over to her and told her it was on the house, and that I hoped her day would get better. She was so dumbfounded by my act of kindness, that her jaw dropped and she could barely get out a thank you. She
had just verbally harassed me, and I made her free hot chocolate. Before the woman left she apologized for being brash and wished me
a good day as well. I think my technique was successful and maybe I brightened her day.