Leadership 101

Since 4th grade I joined a program called 4-H. Every year my county attended several programs about building leaders and making the best better. Since the beginning terms and definitions were put in front of me about leadership and we were expected to impliment those values. 

Now, personally, I've gathered all those opinions about leadership and created my own. Leadership is being self-aware of when and how to lead a group. In a group that is built out of leaders, who leads? To be a good leader is to be able to let go of a situation and follow someone who's ideas and knowledge surpass yours. Therefore a good political leader must be able to step back and allow those with more information to gain control.

This summer I was a camp counselor for an environmental education program. Another counselor and I were in charge of 20-30 kids ranging depending on the week from 4th to 12th grade. My partner had been a counselor before while I was a first year. I had had more leadership training than my partner, but as he had more knowledge of the situations I knew I had to step back when I knew that his leadership would be superior to mine. Good leadership is knowing when not to be a leader.