Jan

17

Leadership roles… What are you?

Filed Under Babbling, School 

Well folks, back again. To my friends over on my LJ aggregation, my apologies for the friends list swarm you faced. I had no idea that would happen, but I guess because it finally got synced and the feed read right after all of the tries yesterday, well, it went berzerker.

The thing about my courses that I like is that every single class has a group, pretty much. I’ve already said that, I know, but even still, it started to sink more in last night when we picked them out in one of the classes. See, last Thursday, two of the folks in one of my classes recognized me from other classes. So we decided then and there that any classes we were in, we’d try to get into the same teams, just to lessen the number of folks we had to worry about over the semester for each of us. So in three of my classes, I have one member the same, and in two of those, I have two team member cross-overs. Can’t complain right there.

I’m all about teams. I enjoy teams. Matter of fact, I have one of two roles that I almost always take when I’m in teams:
[1] Dictatorial to a Degree - Yup, supreme command and control, making sure that everything is running smoothly and going from point to point and being on everyone. I like to be in that control because I feel like then I can make sure that things go smoothly. And because I have a high standard of the end result, well, it’ll make sure that as a whole everyone will grade well.
[2] Wallflower - The guy who you never see, gets everything in on time, and takes little to no leadership role.

Extreme leadership positions, I know. It’s something that I’m working on because neither extreme really is an ideal position to be in. Slowly, I’m relinquishing the reigns. The ride is just as nice most of the time, if you ask me. So readers, the question of the hour is … What leadership role(s) do you take in group settings?

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I’d write more, but I got a call from a friend, so I’m going to meet them on campus… When I come back later, a discussion of observation and reading the fine print even when you’re given none.

Comments

2 Responses to “Leadership roles… What are you?”

  1. Forrest on January 17th, 2008 4:02 pm

    I generally tend to be stuck in the leadership role in all my business class groups myself. I am usually several years older than my teammates, and as someone who doesn’t mind speaking in front of the class, I usually get the leader hat right away.

    Of course, it’s never fun and games being in charge, because most people seem to think that turning in work based on the LEGO model is good enough and will land us all A’s in the course. What I mean by LEGO model is where someone is like “I’ll write this part of the report, you write that part, so and so writes their part, and then we just put it all together and turn it in! Easy as cake, we got this!” and then a round of high fives.

    I seriously have experienced this exact scenerio before, word for word. I was like “Really? Are you serious? Because the professor is going to take one look at that and be like “Get the eff out of here with that weak noise.” A paper written by five people looks like (gasp!) a paper written by five people!!

    It never ceases to amaze me how many dullards attend university these days.

  2. Adam on January 17th, 2008 5:01 pm

    The LEGO model I’ve always abhorred myself. That’s why I’ve always placed myself as close as I can to the leadership role in papersl ike that because it lets me take the final editing into the paper and “smoothen it out.” Best example I have is the last accounting paper/report I did where we walked away with over a 90 on the paper and the teacher couldn’t believe that it was written by 5 different folks.

    Groups as a whole are functional when the members will devote themselves to it, but most of the folks in the collegiate groups aren’t on that “same level” quite yet.

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