Leadership+questions

1. What is your definition of leadership? My definition of leadership is being able to guide a group of people and take control of any situation that may arise. I think to have great leadership skills one has to be strong and confident. 2. What are the key elements in becoming a productive and effective leader? I feel the key elements of being a productive and effective leader would include being strong and confident like I mentioned earlier but also being able to take a bad situation to turn it around and to be able to effectively take control to make decisions others may not want to take. 3. Using the answers to the first two questions, name and describe a leader in your immediate life. What practices from the Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership does this leader particularly demonstrate and how? I feel that my Aunt Barbara practices the five practices of exemplary leadership. She knows what she believes in and she is able to express herself in such a way that it is movtivating, she is also a 'go-getter'. she will go out and do what mmost people do not do and she'll accomplish what she came to do. My aunt is also a team player, she feels that a family cannot function without togetherness and she makes sure everyone is always involoved in one way or another. When ever one of us is feeling down she also always there to give a helping hand or an ear to talk to, and its not only this way around family, she will give a helping hand to whom ever may need it. She is just a great overall great leader in my life today. 4. In reviewing the The Five Practices and Ten Commitments of Exemplary Student Leadership, highlight a plan for you to practice these as you evolve as a freshman this semester. For each practice and commitment, tell us how you will fulfill this as a member of the Rider Community. This semester I plan on being as involved as possible. I want to network make friends and grow while I am here, I also want to help as many people as possible while I am here because Rider University has helped me out so greatly. I want to make an impact in my community while I am here by donating my time and efforts to helping out where ever I can.I want to become a class officer and listen to the student body and be involved with what my class wants and needs and I want to set an example for the people in my life and let them know that they can bestrong leaders as well.