Strength-based leadership

Through strength-based leadership, anyone can be successful.  Learning your strengths and the strengths of others and using them effectively can produce positive results.  Don’t spend too much time thinking about the areas in which you are weak.  By effectively using your strengths, it’s possible to accomplish so much.  I am not the most creative person, but when gathering a team together, I can find a creative person to add to my team.  When everyone focuses on their individual strengths and incorporates them into accomplishing the team’s mission, we will produce positive results.  Don’t spend a large amount of time kicking yourself about what you don’t have, but use your strengths and go from there.  Effectively using your strengths will make up for the areas where you are weak.  Working with a team, having everyone’s strengths available to tap, will be more beneficial than just one person working to accomplish a task. 

Becoming a Better Leader

         I am currently enrolled in a Personal Leadership course at the University of Phoenix.  This is my third course on my quest to receiving my Master’s degree in Teacher Leadership.  In this course, I hope to learn how to be a better leader.  To become an effective leader, you first need to be able to lead yourself.  Through evaluating my leadership skills and building on them, I can have a positive impact on my school and my community.  I recently took a self-leadership assessment.  Based on my results and my reflections, I am an effective self-leader.  This will be valuable during my quest to become an effective leader for others.  By becoming a better leader, I will be more successful in my career field.  I will be able to have a positive impact on the teachers, administrators, students, community members, and parents that I come in contact with.