The title of this subject is "the call to leadership", the lecturer pointed out that there are four calls to leadership. The 1st call is about the statement "Everybody is a leader", the 2nd call is about "Self-awareness", the 3rd call is about creating more leaders, and lastly, the 4th call is about being involved and being a part of the solution that plague's our world.
The goal of the lecturer is to impart these Calls to us, the students, and make us reflect on everything that we learned in comparison to what we already know and how did the new learning affect our daily lives and our future plans. The objective of this paper is to tell how the activities of the class had helped me to better understand the definition of an authentic leader.
First is treating everybody as a leader. The lecturer made us read Heroic leadership, by Chris Lowney, that is where I stumbled upon the phrase "everybody is a leader". The Jesuits believed that everybody has their own opportunity to become leaders, it could be as small as the basic form of community (e.g. Family), or as complex as running an entire nation. They also believed that we perform better when we are exposed to a supportive, encouraging and loving environment, which further proved that in order to make a company run at its best, every individual should be supported to bring out their very best. Because one way or another, a certain circumstance will arise that a person will need to use his or her leadership skills, and I learned that a person will best overcome a problem if they are prepared, and part of that preparation is treating them like leaders. Treating them as a person who is capable of doing a critical thinking analysis.
During our first session, we were first grouped and given a topic. We were tasked to defend why leaders are born, not made or not incidental. During the brain storming, I felt that everyone in the group were sharing their thoughts, and treating each other's idea as a possible answer to throw in the debate. I really felt the leadership of everybody in that group. After that activity we were grouped again, but this time, we were tasked to make a crime. I couldn't be more proud of my group mates. During our first meeting, everybody had a great idea. I was privileged that my "crime" was chosen, they were able to add some inputs to my idea, which made it even better. After all, 4 heads are better than one. During the day of the presentation, we were second to the last group to present, and on the last minute, that was the time when we thought of making a short script. We had not more than 5 minutes to make a role play, and everyone's idea were great, and we were able to construct a short 5 minute play on our Mafia crime scene. The difficult part was, there was no exact script. We only know the parts where we are to talk, but we had to think on the spot what we are going to say. But we were very confident of the skills of our fellow group mates, which I think is the reason why we were able to make a good play.
