Hixson Blog Post #8
What sort of descriptive words come to mind when describing a leader? Enthusiastic, well educated, good communication, or consistent? These are just a few of many characteristics of a leader.
Leading groups effectively was the topic of discussion for this week. There are many effective ways in working with groups, but leading one requires a little more skill. An effective leader will provide the members of the group incentive to engage, create, and assume responsibility for them to achieve goals. We also talked about the physical environment that can influence the group's nature of activity and level of performance. One way of effectively leading a group in the physical environment. This is usually not considered enough. It will include factors such as temperature, lighting, seating, distractions, and seating arrangements appropriate for the tasks of the group. When leading our session next fall it will be important for me to be sure to be aware of such factors, for they will only help with cooperation with the students. When a leader acts in these ways group members will truly engage and own results as their own and will be able say "we did it ourselves." (Newton:Students helping students)
Question: Are leaders born or developed into one?
Good comments Cole! I agree that environment plays a big role in cooperation from students. We've all been in that hot/cold classroom and that takes away the focus of the student because they are concentrating on the temperature of the room.
ReplyDeleteThere are born leaders and developed leaders. If you grow up in a household full of leaders then you are most likely going to be a pretty good leader yourself. Which is why I like to lean more towards the developed leaders instead of born leaders.
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