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The document discusses the author's definition of leadership and influences on that definition. Specifically:
1) The author defines leadership as inspiring others towards common goals through empowerment, encouraging creativity, and being a role model with consistent words and actions.
2) The author's top three influences are an English professor who challenged students to exceed expectations, a friend skilled at connecting people and teamwork, and a friend who led a charity foundation with commitment and clear goals.
3) The author is comfortable interacting casually but less so in social situations, tending to follow rather than lead depending on context and familiarity with others.
The document discusses the author's definition of leadership and influences on that definition. Specifically:
1) The author defines leadership as inspiring others towards common goals through empowerment, encouraging creativity, and being a role model with consistent words and actions.
2) The author's top three influences are an English professor who challenged students to exceed expectations, a friend skilled at connecting people and teamwork, and a friend who led a charity foundation with commitment and clear goals.
3) The author is comfortable interacting casually but less so in social situations, tending to follow rather than lead depending on context and familiarity with others.
The document discusses the author's definition of leadership and influences on that definition. Specifically:
1) The author defines leadership as inspiring others towards common goals through empowerment, encouraging creativity, and being a role model with consistent words and actions.
2) The author's top three influences are an English professor who challenged students to exceed expectations, a friend skilled at connecting people and teamwork, and a friend who led a charity foundation with commitment and clear goals.
3) The author is comfortable interacting casually but less so in social situations, tending to follow rather than lead depending on context and familiarity with others.
My definition of leadership is the ability to inspire and to lead others towards a common goal or desire with the ability to empower people and help them seek for their own ways of achieving this goals, encouraging creativity and diversity and being able to make these diversities work. A leader should also serve as role model for the followers, and have a correct behavior and be consistent with his speech, in a way that represents the ideals professed in every aspect of their lives. It should be shown in their talk, reactions and how they interact with others. Leaders should have a really big sense of respect with their surroundings, and be very careful with how they express themselves. It means to be able to see beyond the actual situation and being able to see opportunities where not many other people sees them. To me, great leaders make other people feel safe and comfortable, but in a way that they encourage other people to grow as well and reach their full potential. They make people work together and are constantly paying attention to details as well as listening to opinions and suggestions made by others. They are willing to take advice for people with more experience and perhaps more talent than them and want them to be part of their projects. They want other people to be successful and don't keep all the credit, they make other people feel appreciated and acknowledged for their work. This definition of leadership has been influenced by three people in my life: first is my English professor, Miss Patricia Quintana, who I think it has been the most influential person in my life. She was always supporting us in a way we would believe in our capacities but at the same time trying to challenge us to stretch our boundaries so we would never settle. She always wanted us to take that extra mile and be more than whatever we thought we could be. She believed in our dreams but also was very demanding with our behavior, we had to be consistent with our speech and our acts and be very responsible with them. This last trait was, in my teen years, a little hard to cope with sometimes, because she expected us to have an answer for every question about our decisions which is hard sometimes when you tend to make big decisions out of impulsiveness. My second most influential person is my friend Beatriz Pakzamir, whom I share a very special bond with thanks to our religion's activities. She is one of the most warm and friendly people I've ever met and she is known to be the bridge that connects a lot of people thanks to her social and interpersonal skills. She always manages to make everybody feel appreciated and comfortable in her presence, and when it comes to team work she is also very straight-forward into getting things done and responsible in every task assigned. She has the ability to read people and she's always looking for ways o make them feel like their abilities are acknowledged and valued. The third person is my friend Maximiliano Quiroz, who managed to inspire me as well as surprise me with his leadership skills. For anyone who meets him for the first time is hard to believe that he could be in a context of serious talk and decision making, but when I saw his commitment with the role of Regional Director at the charity foundation he invited me to take part of, I could not help but admire his sense of peacefulness through every obstacle presented. Also he always made us aware of what was expected of us as part of the team, making all the deadlines and goals clear in every meeting but always in a way that was motivational rather than threatening. These abilities I am aware of have shaped an idea of how to be as a leader and have given me some very important clues about how to relate with others. I think I could describe myself as very good at interacting with others, but this is depending on the context I am in. For some reason I'm better at interacting with people when we meet on a very casual, almost random context, without any external pressure. With this, I mean when I meet people for example, while waiting in a line at the bank. I've had the pleasure to meet amazing people in the most random places and learned to value the conversations I have with people in the street, trains or even the airport on the way here. I think I could do better in interacting with people in more social contexts like parties or crowded places where people expect you to interact. I am usually the type to stay comfortable with known people and only approach a group if there's enough people I know in it. It's hard for me to go out of my comfort zone when there are too much people I'm familiar with around me. I tend to take chances or take the lead if I am alone or with not much known people, otherwise I tend to take a step beside and watch other people shine rather than to try to do it myself. Depending on the situation I would tend to follow rather than leading.