Week Two

The best kind of leadership is strength-based leadership.  Most people can always focus on their faults, but a good leader will focus on their strengths and use those strengths to lead.  I tend to always focus on what I can do better and what is wrong with me and how I can better myself in the future.  However, I could become a better, more productive leader if I would focus more on what my strengths are and how I can use and refine those strengths to better lead others.  As a teacher, when you lead using your strengths you can foster a learning community that is based on positivity and finding and using everyone’s different strengths, instead of trying to force students to suppress their strengths and develop their weaker areas.  For example, if a student is really good at writing, why force him to take on drawing in a group activity; why not let the student excel where their strengths are and work towards developing other strengths throughout the class time?  When students are able to use their strengths they are much more productive and excited about learning.