Lead Here, Lead There, Lead Anywhere
Leadership has many transferable traits. Serve. Honesty. Integrity. Hard work. Communication. The list of leadership traits is long. However, what makes them transferable is their ability to be specifically applied to any environment. That said, how are HBCU/PBI students learning to take the leaderships skills they are receiving and apply them in settings dissimilar than the one in which
they are learning?
Communication, for example. Often times, social and cultural references are used to fortify social, professional and academic concepts. Growing leaders can easily make the mistake of assuming their experience is the shared and predominant one of the group. By using their specific personal and cultural experiences, leaders risk successfully including some, but unsuccessfully excluding others. Being able to identify and implement more general cross-references allows for a more successful line of communication with the clear and safe reinforcement of the concept. A reference too specific and unfamiliar may create frustration, distrust, resentment and set back the process of building rapport.
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they are learning?
Communication, for example. Often times, social and cultural references are used to fortify social, professional and academic concepts. Growing leaders can easily make the mistake of assuming their experience is the shared and predominant one of the group. By using their specific personal and cultural experiences, leaders risk successfully including some, but unsuccessfully excluding others. Being able to identify and implement more general cross-references allows for a more successful line of communication with the clear and safe reinforcement of the concept. A reference too specific and unfamiliar may create frustration, distrust, resentment and set back the process of building rapport.
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