Leadership

After reading the article I shared few similarities with article from technical and human skills. After leaning many skills in the excerpt I agreed with what was said about having leadership skills, “Leadership skills can be acquired and leaders can be trained to develop them.” I believe leaders are trained into becoming a leader not born as them. I say this because I was not born with leadership skills, I received them from being told and taught the right way of doing doing things because I am the oldest in my household so I had to set a positive influence to my siblings who looked up to me. More on about leadership skills, I also have excellent technical skills. As defined, “Technical skill is knowledge about and proficiency in a specific type of work or activity”. I had experiences in my life where I demonstrated good technical skills. I modeled technical skills in the kitchen when I make food for friends and family.  I have good technical skills with cooking because I know how to delicious meals without burning the kitchen down or making the food tastes horrible. For example, my friend Jazmine has horrible cooking skills; she never reads the directions on how to cook the foods and her meals do not turn out delightful. While on the other hand I choose to read the directions because I like to make sure everything goes well, and by knowing how to cook a specific dinner by heart now, it is all a master skill to me and I know how to masterly cook a good meal. Continually, I felt the article hit home when they shared another skill for leadership which was Human skill. Human Skill was defined as, “Human Skill is the knowledge about and ability to work with people,” being a leader you must have this quality. As I am a leader in many organizations, I share this skill very well. I was president of my church youth department and I had to deal with many kids my age as well as younger. I always made sure everyone was comfortable around me as well as the other children around them. I am a very sensitive person so I had to make sure no one was discouraged or uncomfortable because I was held accountable for everything went wrong and I would feel disappointed knowing someone was not relaxed under the supervision of me. I always opened up a discussion about how they’re day went just to open them up a little. But as a sad result, I see myself lacking in the skill of conceptual skill. I fear that I do not have the right voice to make something that is a down fall comes up as a big success. I say this because if I cannot persuade people then I feel as if I am a failure. For example, at church when it came time to electing new officers for 2009, it was the most difficult situation I have ever felt myself in. Many of the kids were uncooperative and did not want to elect because they did not want to take the responsibility if they got chosen for any of the selected office that were open. After 30n minutes trying to encourage the kids to vote, they finally gave in only noticing the Pastor came asking how things were going and explaining to him the difficult situation I was dealing with.