Charismatic Leadership

• I believe I lead a charismatic lifestyle. So I try to exhibit these traits daily, however here are the ones I've noticed I've used in the past 2 weeks:
• Emotional expressiveness and warmth: I'm a generally happy and expressive human being. I always express what I'm feeling, usually it's very positive and warm. 
• Dramatic and unique: I've always been a rather dramatic person (ask anyone in my family). I'm dramatically unique as I like to call it. I'm not dramatic enough to the point where I get unnecessary attention and I'm unique enough that people take notice.
• I always make it a point to smile and say "Good morning" or "Hello, (insert name)" to someone else, who knows, you might have made their day.
• My father is a CEO at his company, he is loved by all of his employees. I realized this when my grandmother passed away and all of my father's co-workers drove down to Iowa to give their condolences and attend the funeral.My father is the definition of a charismatic leader (the good kind, haha).

Leadership traits

Traits:

1. Humility: many may not know this but I have a hard time talking about myself. I consider it rude and unbecoming if someone is always talking about themselves. It was the way I was raised. Plus, the people I admire most are the ones who do amazing things without needing recognition.

2. Sense of Humor: I always find the humor in every situation. I think humor is linked to intelligence and the more people exercise good humor, the more intelligent they will be. I love having good humor about everything. It also means I have a good attitude.

3. Extraversion: I love being around people and hanging out, working, etc. Though I do love my alone time, I do enjoy human beings in general. I think all people are good until they prove me wrong.

4. Trustworthiness: I'm one of those people who always is honest. Lying and dishonesty get you no where in life. Plus I'd be far to guilty to lie to someone. I would feel completely horrible. Trustworthiness is just a part of my personality.

5. Optimism/Warmth: I try my very hardest not to be a negative person. I think how you perceive the world is how it is, if you perceive it as negative then it will be just that. If you go into any situation with optimism, it will surely work out for the better.

Motive:

1. Tenacity & Resilience: All my life I have always been resilient. I think it is important for not only leaders but people in general to be resilient and tenacious. I can bounce back from any situation thrown my way.

Traits, Motives, and Characteristics I must work on:

1. Emotional Stability: Without sounding too crazy, I am ADHD: my emotions are always heightened and I feel extreme emotions sometimes. I am working on calming myself down and having a better sense of what emotions are appropriate at what time. My mother has definitely been a great help with this.

2. Assertiveness: I have trouble being assertive at the risk I will sound bossy or like a nag. I also fear that I will hurt someone's feelings or they won't like me if I'm assertive. I do realize there is a fine line between being assertive and being bossy and being assertive and not being a push-over, definitely something I am working on very hard.

3. High Tolerance for frustration: I tend to shut down when I get frustrated or I get really anxious because all I want to do is understand or be understood. This is something that has improved dramatically for me over the past year but it's definitely still something that needs to be improved upon.

4. Farsightedness & Conceptual Thinking: I sometimes have a difficult time imagining a goal in my head, if it's not right in front of me then its hard for me to picture.

Task-Related Attitudes/Behaviors:

1. Adaptability to the situation: I believe this is a behavior I have exhibited every week I've been in Costa Rica. Adapting to a new culture and place is an every day occurrence. 

2. Risk-taking: See number 1.

3. Hands-on guidance and feedback: I'm like a mother hen to most of my friends here and back home, I'm always helping them out or giving them advice on academic and personal issues or dilemmas.

4. Organizing for collaboration: Many of my classes at Veritas require student-to-student collaboration whether it be for homework or projects.

Strengths.

Here are a list of my top 5 StrengthFinder Themes after doing the strength test:

1. Belief
2. Empathy
3. Communication 
4. Developer
5. Self-Assurance

-The theme that describes me the best is definitely empathy. I find myself very in-touch with my emotions and I can always tell what someone is feeling at any given moment and I always want to help them (or empathize with them).

-The theme I use most frequently is communication. I'm big on telling everyone what's going on all the time. I am not a big fan of people that can't communicate their feelings or situations to me, all I want to do is help out or know what's going on and communication is essential for things to run smoothly.

-When I'm in the zone, I've found that I'm a developer. I have an uncanny talent for seeing potential in others and placing them in a line of work that most suits them. I read people. 

-I'm really trying to harness my ability as a developer and focus it toward a career, possibly working in recruitment for a college, company, or whom ever needs. A long term goal would to one day be a head hunter and place talented and experienced people in important company positions.

About Me.

Here is a little map about me.