Today my definition of leadership is someone who looks out for every follower and who has empathy. A leader is someone who understands and who not only thinks about their own well being, who knows what people need and what their community needs, it is someone who also stays humble, someone who not only knows how to lead but how to follow as well. I believe a leader is someone who is willing to fail and learn from those experiences and who also is willing to take in input from others.  

 

      My philosophy on leadership has changed throughout the Leadership Minor a lot. I remember when I began this minor we got asked who a great leader was for us, I remember just thinking about powerful leaders and mostly, entirely men. There's where I learned the “Great man Theory,” I had always thought that great leaders were born and were men that's what society made me believe for the longest time. 

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      I truly and strongly believe that anyone that wants to be a leader can be a leader and that no matter what qualities you have you can make a change. Today my philosophy about leadership is that being a leader takes practice and time but anyone can do it with the correct learning, that's what I have come to realize these past semesters. A good leader practices to facilitate in order to help their group come together and form a solution. This leader has to be concerned about the effects of their actions in the long term and think in terms of renewal and place emphasis on vision, values, and motivation. Thanks to this minor I know that a leader is not born, a leader is created. That a good leader is full of empathy, passion, motivation, encouragement, is inclusive, and is capable of realizing mistakes and letting his/her community help with that, it's someone who doesn’t look for his own well being but for everyones’.