Blog #6 LPI- assessment

I believe after taking the LPI-leadership assessment that many of the results I agree with.  My highest principles were actually a tie between model the way and challenge the process.  At first looking at both of these principles you may think they can’t coexist.  After I looked over the questions again I saw some correlations between the two and examples in my own life.  For example, when it comes to being a big brother I always try to model the way for my younger siblings.  As the oldest I always want to lead and set a good example for my siblings.  To incorporate challenging the process to this example in my mind is clear.  Being the older brother I challenge the process everyday by picking right from wrong.  Making these right from wrong decisions help me also build upon my moral and leadership values.  In challenging the process it states leaders are pioneers and "step into the unknown" (How to Improve Your Leadership Style in Each Area).  I believe that as the oldest I have done a lot of stepping into the unknown that helped pave the way for my siblings.  For instance, I was the first to learn how to drive out of my siblings and now I have the knowledge to help model the way for them.

My second highest principles are inspire a shared vision and encourage the heart.  These two go hand in hand with who I am as a leader.  I believe that when I was on my internship in Orlando I was able to lead others by these principles.  When on this internship I was instructed to lead a team to get a bunch of product organized and set up in one of the busiest rooms.  By encouraging the hearts of my team and sharing an inspired vision we accomplished our task.  During my internship there many moments like this and I believe each helped me grow as a leader.

The lowest ranked principle is enable to act others.  Now this principle was only shy one point from being in the second highest on my results.  I don’t believe that I see this as a low ranking principle of mine but a high one if anything.  In the previous paragraph I gave the example where I was given a group to lead in getting a task done.  If I wasn’t able to bring together this group as a team to trust me then I would have never gotten the project completed in time.

Overall I believe that the LPI-leadership assessment came up with decent results to my leadership ideals.  I also see each of these five principles as things that I need to work on to become a better leader.  This is so that I can see each of these principles as strengths working together towards my leadership goals.

Blog # 5

To answer this blog question I had to step back and really think of a way to answer.  The idea of a random act of kindness shouldn’t be planned or done with the intent to record.  It should be exactly what it says and be random.  The act of being kind should never come with an ulterior motive of a grade or reward for doing so.  I believe that in any facet of displaying kindness you need to really feel it in your heart and act accordingly.  After a week of thinking I thought what if I could find a picture of when I performed random acts of kindness. 

The moment which I was able to find was in the gym.  This is an environment where I spend a lot of my time and feel most comfortable.  As seen in the photo underneath I am helping another member of the gym with a spot.  Now there were many other members working out which could have done the same but didn’t.  I felt that this was a solid act of random kindness because it helped someone out and it wasn’t planned out.  I also didn’t know at the time that it was being recorded to post on his Instagram.