Why Learn About Leadership?

In class this past week, we learned about leadership and what it takes to be a leader. We learned how being a leader meant that you had to be able to assign tasks as well as get feedback from those you lead. This is very important because many times the people doing the work may know, or notice something that you do not. The leader must also be strong in front of the workers but not scare them.

The most important thing to do is to choose a leadership style that suites you best. In class we did several activities that allowed us as a group to evaluate each other. This is very important since we have been in our groups for two months now and have experience working with each other.

Finally, many ask why it is so important to be a good leader and the answer is simple. We are in school to get a higher education, and this education will put us into leadership positions. Every place we work will have a hierarchy of command and no one will want to be on the bottom of that, so we will need to lead at least some people. Class has but given us some tools to be leaders, when we get the chance to, we just need to use them.

By:Ben Schnepp