LeaderShape - Day One – Building Community

Excerpt from LeaderShape.org website

"You'll begin to explore what leadership means and discuss its core components. You'll meet the other participants in the "Learning Community," and you'll also join 8-12 other young adults in a group called the "Family Cluster." As your primary reference group, the Family Cluster will offer you feedback, support, and help you develop and refine your vision for the future."

What a high energy day! The faculty was pumped up and excited to meet the participants for our 6 day long intensive leadership program. As an extrovert, I know that I'm so energetic and pumped full of adrenaline that I must scare people.

The highlight of this day is often sharing the meaning of reflection as it relates to being a leader. Taking time for self-reflection and to just think in our busy world is really critical. I also love the definition of a leader that I learned from Caroline Fiskus, "ik che wi cha sha."

It's Lakota Indian and means "the common man whose time has come." The thought here is that we are all leaders in training. We are all teachers and learners. We are (or should) be in the process of discovering who we are and who we can be. Shape ourselves into the person that only we can be to be prepared for that time when we are needed.