Week 6 CEDO 565

Good leadership is much more than someone telling others what to do. This class has made e reevaluate my ideas and thoughts on what leadership fundamentally is. It's not just a position, it is much more than that. Leadership can happen at any level of an organization, not just from a person who has the title of leader. Even though we have taken a leadership quality survey, I really had a hard time seeing myself a leader with regards to my peers in addition to my students. But I guess with my peers, I do lead in different things. There is a reason that people come to me when they are having trouble with technology. There is a reason that people seek me out to fix things that are broken (not only items, but even implementations of ideas). I have always seen myself as somewhat of a Renaissance handy man. If there is something that needs to be fixed, regardless of if it is technology or something else, I have no problems in attempting to fix it. I also have no problems in recognizing when fixing something is beyond me (either due to ignorance on my part or lack of time or equipment). So in all, I have learned lots about leadership, how the stress of leadership can cause some of the "goofy" actions of those that lead (usually due to feeling like they are banging their head against a wall) why leaders tend to ask the same people to help them over and over again and how I function as a leader at my site. Instead of having a "useless theory" class like many have had in undergraduate, this class really has led me to understand more about leadership, both good and bad.