HONR401
Exploring Leadership in the Context of Conference Development
The transforming leadership theory is described as “‘…a relationship of mutual stimulation and elevation that converts followers into leaders and may convert leaders into moral agents’” while placing emphasis on “‘higher ideals and moral values such as liberty, justice, equality, peace and humanitarianism…’”
(Komives, Lucas & McMahon 71).
(Komives, Lucas & McMahon 71).
At the end of my freshman year, I took a course which was pivotal in realizing what I value in leaders and the kind of leadership I aspire to show myself. Our course focused on reflecting on our personal leadership styles (weakness and strengths we have). After learning about approaches of leadership, we were asked to choose a leadership style we most believe in. I chose Transformational Leadership, and my final essay can be found below. This leadership style has been something I have brought with me in other contexts outside of the classroom, such as in Spanish Club, in the classroom during field experiences, or at jobs.
The course was unique in that we had the opportunity to help plan the Upper Midwest Regional Honors Conference in spring 2015. To do this, we were split into sub-committees within our class. I was on the hospitality committee and planned social events, such as the first evening's Ice Cream Social. Our team also made sure that Honors Programs and Colleges felt welcomed by the university and Mankato community. This was the first conference I had the opportunity to attend, which gave me an idea of what to expect when I presented "Tinta" at Streamlines the following fall. Being on the planning side of a conference gave me such respect for the other conferences I attended in the future.
To spread news about the conference, I wrote an article in the Honors Beacon (starts on the first page of the pdf below), which is a bi-annual newsletter published by the MNSU Honors Program. It was my first semester of six as a writer and editor for the newsletter.
The course was unique in that we had the opportunity to help plan the Upper Midwest Regional Honors Conference in spring 2015. To do this, we were split into sub-committees within our class. I was on the hospitality committee and planned social events, such as the first evening's Ice Cream Social. Our team also made sure that Honors Programs and Colleges felt welcomed by the university and Mankato community. This was the first conference I had the opportunity to attend, which gave me an idea of what to expect when I presented "Tinta" at Streamlines the following fall. Being on the planning side of a conference gave me such respect for the other conferences I attended in the future.
To spread news about the conference, I wrote an article in the Honors Beacon (starts on the first page of the pdf below), which is a bi-annual newsletter published by the MNSU Honors Program. It was my first semester of six as a writer and editor for the newsletter.
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