Blog Prompt #6 - Everyday Leadership

Check out this TED Talk from Drew Dudley on Everyday Leadership.

 

Drew Dudley closes with, “There is no world, there is only six billion understandings of it. And if you change one person’s understanding of it … you’ve changed the whole thing.”  Well, that’s pretty daunting, isn’t it?  Maybe, but it also presents a vast amount of opportunity for understanding and connection with others.  We’ve been talking in class recently about transformational leadership and servant leadership, both of which focus on the collaborative and relational aspects of leadership.  Leadership always involves others. And often times the impact of leadership is not about those grand moments with an impact on a large number of people, but rather the more significant impact comes from those seemingly small moments and gestures that make a profound impact on us.

Identify a “lollipop moment” from your life.  Think of an ordinary experience from your life where someone had a profound impact on your life and that fundamentally made your life better.  Who was this person and what was the impact on your life?  Connect your story/experience to the transformational leadership or servant leadership approaches.

Reminder:

One member of your group should post a response to your team's blog page.  You can write a narrative, post a video or other media, share links to other sources, etc. but your response must include text to show CLEAR connections between your response and class materials.