Blog 1: Leadership

A leader is a person who provides motivation and guidance to others in order to accomplish a task or goal. Leadership reflexively refers to the qualities a leader has and to the capability of one to lead. A political leader is one who uses leadership skills within the political spectrum to enact change on the behalf of his or her constituents. 

In high school, I was a cadet in the Army JROTC (Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps). It was a leadership education class, dedicated to teaching leadership and citizenship to its members. In my second year, I was promoted to the position of Staff Sergeant and was given the position of leading my own squad. I was in charge of teaching a LET 1 skills that would help them throughout the rest of the program, like marching drills, ranks, and other miscellaneous knowledge. I did well enough that I was given a second LET 1 and was promoted the next year to work with the highest ranked in the program. I won a NCO (Non-commissioned Officer) of the Month award and was in the running for NCO of the year award. On my final year, I was promoted to being a the headquarters company executive officer and was in charge of organizing the files of all the cadets and guiding their work to completion. At the last award ceremony of the year, I was given an award for being the best executive officer in the battalion. The program gave me plenty of leadership experience and I have been able to transfer those skills to other aspects of my life.