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July 22, 2015 I'm going to start today to record on a daily basis whatever happens to strike my fancy. So, it is a very cool breezy day. I just posted 5 short book reviews to The Monthly Reading Challenge. I'm suppose to put away some winter wood today from the woodpile outside but I'm playing hookey from work to write so starting this blog will get done. I'm having a daily fight with a flock of English Sparrows that are trying to take over my barn. They are making a terrible mess so they have to go. I have destroyed several nests so far they don't leave but they get out of the barn when I am around. I'm just starting the fight so I guess I don't know how far I have to go to discourage them. I'm trying not to spread myself to thin on WDC because I find so many things that are interesting here and I am trying to work on a new story. I really enjoy sitting at my desk with a cup of tea and reading blogs on WDC. |
What characteristics do you admire in a leader? Is there or was there a time in your life when you took on a leadership role? Research different leadership styles and describe which style you would most like to follow. Which style are you? When you are in a leadership position, do you exemplify the qualities you admire in a good leader?  Quote: Visionary — mobilize people toward a vision. ... Coaching — develop people for the future. ... Affiliative — create emotional bonds and harmony. ... Democratic — build consensus through participation. ... Pacesetting — expect excellence and self-direction. ... Commanding — demand immediate compliance. {from Google search (leadership styles) This prompt is a little over my head?  So, I'll take on the questions one at a time. Besides, I found places that said there was 6, 7, or 8 styles.1. I like a leader to be honest, even bluntly honest and knowledgeable, about whatever the subject is they are leading. The person should be able to direct the people being led into some kind of knowledge, that may be needed for the situation. 2. Yes. I was a mother, a cub scout den leader, and a leader of a church youth group. Also, a riding instructor for horseback riding and training. And at one time I taught some children dog obedience for their companion dogs.) (for children and teens from about 12 to 17.) Depending on the group I needed some musical ability to lead songs, organizational ability to teach classes about how to train and communicate with animals. And, any knowledge of children I could glean. 3. This is a part where it's over my head. I guess I did not know leadership styles was a subject you could research and chose to follow in such a strict manner. When I took journalism classes the professors used transformational. 4. I always tried to impress honesty on any groups I was in charge of and make sure they had knowledge that they could depend on, as they grew, to be accurate and far reaching. I did not delve into this subject too deeply, so I would think maybe the way I led was as a coach, or in a visionary capacity. Mostly, my position was brought about by the fact, that no one else was available to lead the group. I was the one with the training, knowledge, or time to participate. So, it would have been a combination of leadership values to meet the need of the situation. I will be interested in answers to this as many of you have college courses in psychology and leadership in business. THE END.  |
11/18/2019 - What is something that most people misunderstand or wrongly assume about you?  ???What a question? How would I know? I actually never talk to very many people. I tried to be friends with one of the neighbor ladies years ago and that turned into a mess. Actually, I'm stunned by things I know now I did not know 30 or 40 years ago. I don't think our children are being raised with enough knowledge about humanity. One neighbor thought I was writing about her in a short story I wrote about some women gossiping about a neighbor at a meeting for coffee. I explained all this before in another blog. I tried to join a book club a few years ago. The ladies tried to use psychology to put me to sleep or just get me to tell them if it was safe to take an over seas vacation? I just left quickly and then laughed for awhile at home. These ladies are into prophecy or oracle speech from spirits. I was interested to read in one book last year about Pope Benedict who loudly proclaimed. "I'm not an oracle!" when some church members wanted information from him about future events. It was in a book I might have reviewed. A catholic journalist who was covering the Vatican reported the situation. I read a lot of journalist writings about church history. History does try to repeat itself especially if people are not inclined to read about past occurrences in the history of humans. Lots of history books have references of other books and sometimes I'm inclined to look up some book used for a reference and read the whole book. Of all the hundreds of books I read I feel like my total knowledge bank would still only fit on the head of a pin. I'm just a person. I don't have all the answers. Besides, if you want to communicate with God you are suppose to develop your own relationship with the Creator. In a Journalism class we were required to write an article about a person in a community. I'm rural so I'm not up on too many local special people. I read in a newspaper about a pastor that was retiring soon and had contributed to a lot of community enrichment. I interviewed him and wrote up an article about him. When the professor of the class read my article he said I made the man sound like any ordinary person just going about his every day work instead of a well known man in the Christian community. I was interested in the fact that the professor thought this person was not living an ordinary life because he was a Christian? I like to listen to other peoples ideas about an ordinary life on the earth. Maybe there really isn't any such think since no two people approach life exactly the same I think you can train two people to do a job but they will follow the rules of the work of slightly different angles. THE END Quote: "Trees exhale for us so that we can inhale them to stay alive. Can we ever forget that? Let us love trees with every breath we take until we perish." ― Munia Khan https://onetreeplanted.org/blogs/stories/inspirational-quotes-about-trees |
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