How has your view of leadership changed?

Before taking this class, I didn’t think too much about leadership and how I could personally lead. I pictured a leader to strictly be somebody who is in charge of a group or organization. However leadership class has shown me that there are many more ways to lead in all different types of situations. At first I thought leaders were just born that way, but I now know that there are ways for anybody to learn how to lead. Ways to learn how to lead include taking a class, trial and error, and observing other leaders. Also, I already had some characteristics in mind of a good leader but we collaborated in class and came up with our class top 7 list of traits. A few that really stood out to me were perseverance, keeping cool, and lead by example. Perseverance stood out because a true leader must be 100% committed to his goal in order to effectively lead others. Keeping one’s cool is very important because the leader is who the followers look up to and if the leader loses his composure, that directly affects the attitude of all the followers. Last, I included leading by example as a very important trait because actions speak louder than words and a leader must do a good job of setting an example for their followers. Leadership class has made me put a lot more thought into how to lead and I plan on utilizing the information I have learned in this class in the real world.