Relationship Leadership

What is Rational Leadership?, you asked. Well I'm glad you asked. Rational Leadership is a model that focus on the effectiveness of leadership such as purposeful, inclusive, empowering, ethical, and process-oriented. 

Out of all the elements, I am most comfortable with the purposeful element. 

I believe that everything happens for a reason, whether if it is good or bad. Without purpose what would be the meaning for half the things we try to accomplish in life. For example, many people goes to college for a better education to seek higher paying jobs, to get a job that interest them that requires an college degree, to meet new people, find love, e.t.c. But let's be real, how many people would actually go to college and spend thousands of dollars to go if there wasn't a purpose behind them to go because I know I wouldn't. It would be a waste of money and time if I did. Everyone may not know what their purpose is as of right but eventually they will find one.

Not only am I comfortable with the purposeful element, I am also comfortable with the inclusive element. 

I feel that being inclusive enhances your knowledge about people, such as your friends, and where they come from. I consider me and my group of friends as inclusive. Some of us are African American, White, Asian, Japanese, Jewish, Jamaican, and Puerto Rican. We all have similar and different values, styles, and individuality. For instance, my Jewish friends do not celebrate Christmas but the rest of us do. But one thing that we all have in common is that we respect everyone cultures and do not put each other down because of who they are and where they are from. 

My friend Olivia's birthday party

When we went Ice Skating

At CVS taking pictures with Brutus!

*You may not be able to see all the different races but I think it gives an idea of what I am trying to explain.

Although I am most comfortable with purposeful and inclusive, I feel that I have learned and developed the other three as well and I hope I can get comfortable with them as I am with these two.

Young Scholars Program

Part One 
     A community I am involved in/ know about is called The Young Scholars Program. Most people have not heard of this program but it is a program through The Ohio State University Office of Diversity and Inclusion. The Young Scholars Program is design to prepare young people for college academic, personal, and career development wise for The Ohio State University. Attend meetings, community services projects, maintain a 3.0 in high school, and attend Ohio State for one summer (Summer Academy) are things you had to attend/do to stay in the program. Staff members were very nice in helping us out when we needed help.They offered tutoring if we were struggling in the class and gave us ways to contact them if we needed advice for just wanted to talk about things that were going on in our life, whether if it was good or bad.
     Summer Academy is one of the best thing the program has to offer, in my opinion. For summer academy we would come here at Ohio State for a month and stay in Drackett Tower. During summer academy we would take a science, math, and writing class (not for college credit). The classes helped us prepare and/or get an idea of how college classes typical are instructed. Nobody would wake us up for classes, make us attend our classes, or to tell us to do our homework. Beside classes, we had to make our schedule for when we eat, study, sleep, workout, and do homework. This opportunity gave us an idea of how college would be like and being on our own.
      In conclusion, this is I how feel the Young Scholars Program shows leadership. I still keep in contact with the staff members and other young scholars to let them know how I am doing. This was a one in a lifetime opportunity and I was grateful to be a part of it.

Part Two
     My own sense of hope, optimism, and ability to build and strengthen others are letting people make their own mistakes and learn from them, and not be judgmental. Anybody can tell someone not to do something and give them millions of reasons not to but how many people actually listens to everything someone else tells them to do or not to do something, I know I don't. In my opinion, it is better for people to make their own mistakes because they get to experience the reasons as to why they were told not to do something and hopeful they would learn from it and not do it again. Also not being judgmental towards other. Nobody is perfect and nobody is ever going to be perfect. Instead of judging people because of who they are or what they did, we should still respect them and encourage them to do the right thing, not bring them down and make them feel bad about their self.