First Meeting

Hello everyone! Welcome to my blog. Here, I will periodically be posting about my experiences as a member of the STARS LEAD Program.

I was first drawn to the STARS program because of my friend Collin. He introduced me to the STARS Program as a whole. He got me to attend the initial meeting and spark my interest in it. After a semester of being in the program, I knew that the STARS LEAD program would help me further develop my leadership skills. With the STARS LEAD program, I can learn to be a better leader with my peers and hopefully get enough experience to potentially be a STARS Mentor next year. That position would require many leadership qualities and I think that the LEAD program can help me perfect those qualities so I can be the best leader possible, even if I don’t end up as a STARS Mentor. 

I was very anxious to go to the first STARS Leaders meeting. It was my first chance to meet all the other leaders and to get to know them better. I really liked the ice breaker activity that we did because it gave me a chance to learn more about everyone else, and to also tell everyone a little more about me. I now realize that I should have mentioned that I am a leader in my introduction. I found it very interesting that no one mentioned that. It shows that all of us still have much to learn in order to get to our full potential as leaders. Leadership can also be defined in many ways. I would say that leadership can be defined as having the qualities to be able to direct a group of people in a smart and coherent way during difficult situations, and developing the leadership skills of the individuals in the group as well, from leading by example.