Leadership in Life by Scott

Leadership in Life by Scott - March 2015 Scholarship Essay

Leadership skills are probably one of the most important things to have not only in college but your entire life. You will need to have leadership skills in nearly every situation your in. You need leadership skills when working with a team. You’ll use leadership skills to make it farther in life and become more successful. If you don’t have leadership skills you may not make it far in life.

Imagine nearly any situation in your workplace, home, or school. More likely than not someone had to step up and take charge of the situation at hand. That person showed leadership and depending on how well that person did at resolving the issue would determine their leadership skills. Leadership doesn’t always mean that you have to be in charge of anyone, you could be by yourself resolving an issue about an essay mix up and that would show leadership because you handled the situation.

If you are working with a team naturally there would be a leader. Every team needs a leader of some kind to help direct everyone on the task at hand. When working with a team you need to be able to teach and leader the newer members and get them up to speed with the rest of the team. At some point you might even end up being the leader of your team and you’ll need the skills in order to keep the team together.

Leadership is one of the skills that everyone needs to move up in the world. If plan on running a company you need to be able to lead from 10 towards 10 million workers. Not only that but you must be able to make decisions that would determine whether or not your company will fail. Without the leadership skills you won’t be able to be promoted much and if you some how start running a company the lack of leadership will start to destroy the company you’ve created.
Leadership is a skill that is learned. Even though we are constantly guided by someone in our life it will be us that will become future leaders. It will also be us to determine the success or downfall of our businesses and our nation. Leadership is essential not just in college but in life as a whole.