I had an interesting week about leadership and all the opportunities that come with it. I had the opportunity to host the Midwest Career Conference at Purdue University and learned a lot! I learned a lot from the speaker at the conference. Although he may be hard on us, I have a feeling that I will really like him and learn a lot from this class. The speaker had an interesting way of showing us leaders, but it was extremely helpful and memorable. He showed a lot of commercials and clips th...

The secrets to leading others... Where do you begin? Our professor has outlined five easy steps to lead others. They are as follows:1. Tell them what you expect.2. Make it doable.3. Reward them.4. Give them feedback.5. When they are done, reward them again.I think that these could be the main five steps to lead others, but there is also a lot more that goes into it. I feel that by doing these steps the followers will be more willing to help you out as a leader and be more motivated. Every lea...

In class yesterday, our professor continued talking about the top five secrets to success. He asked the question, "What do employees want?" If you think about it what is it that really motivates employees to stay at a job? Employees want to know what is in it for them. They need to know how the job is going to benefit their personal lives. In ranking the qualities for what employees want in a career, I was very different from the way supervisors ranked the qualities. Supervisors ranked ful...

Why do we have 2 ears and only one mouth? According to my professor, it is because listening is twice as important as talking! It is hard to listen to everything that others tell you! Active listening is when you hear what the person tells you and then you repeat it back to them in different words so they know you understand what they were trying to tell you! I listen to what other people say, but I sometimes have a hard time remembering what they said. The example that was given in class was...

In class on Monday, we worked on a survival activity. We were stranded in the desert with our team and we had to figure out what items were most important to us. The individual scores for our team were a lot better than the group score. I think this is because some people on our team didn't care which order the items were placed in. Some of the members didn't say anything about any of the items or the order we placed them in. We had some people in our group that had logical explination for wh...

In class on Wednesday, we had the opportunity to watch a clip about 4 different ways to answer a concern by an employee. The first manager was extremely rude, didn't act like he was in the least bit concerned about the problem, and didn't even know the employee's name. The second manager was extremely laid back and didn't seem worried about anything. He just acted like the problem would dissappear and he wouldn't need to do anything. The third manager was really rude to the employee and trie...