Examples of great leaders can be found throughout different time periods and situations. This paper is a guide for people who are interested in leadership. Introduction The dictionary definition of a leader is that of one who leads or goes first. In other words a leader should be able to be ahead from others in all questions concerning his or her job. This person uses abilities to influence a group toward obtaining a particular result.
Small farmers benefit from consumers who choose them over Stop & Shop’s aisles of imports, and these small farmers are getting help from the government. When you buy local more money stays in the community. This would not be the case however if you bought from a big food chain which sends the money out all over the place. For local business owners, the money that is spent locally will eventually find its way back to them which in return helps strengthen the local economy and helps local businesses thrive and grow. While some argue that buying local threatens small farmers elsewhere in the world, they ignore that if everyone bought local food, everyone’s local economies would improve.
Children’s Hunger Alliance Children’s Hunger Alliance My Healthy People 2020 topic of interest is Nutrition and Weight Status. The goal stated is “to promote health and reduce chronic disease risk through the consumption of healthful diets and achievement and maintenance of healthy body weights.” (Healthy People 2020) There is a nonprofit group called The Children’s Hunger Alliance that helps Ohio children achieve this Healthy People 2020 goal. This organization started in 1970 with one single volunteer and a $5,000 grant. In Ohio over one half million kids go hungry at some time during the year. The Children’s Health Alliance states a simple message, “Hungry children can’t learn.” (Children’s Hunger Alliance) They work with schools, faith based organizations, and child care centers to increase participation in The United States Department of Agricultural meal programs.
The commercial proves to the audience that Life cereal is not a repulsive cereal. This is shown when the younger brother Mikey, who hates everything, digs into the cereal. Therefore, anyone should like this cereal if it is enjoyed by someone who normally hates everything. Also the commercial proves trust and creditability by showing a product made by the Quaker oats company. And, anyone who purchases Quaker products knows that they are a long time tried and true company that sells healthy products that are good for you.
Unit M3.50 – Introduction To Leadership & Management Anita Graham-Bateson Tutor Understanding Leadership & Management To me leadership is setting the benchmark, standards, targets and behaviour for others to follow to reach a common goal. In my daily life I am surrounded by some form of leader or another, from watching the Prime Minister on the news who leads a country, talking to my boss at work or speaking to my mum who has lead me to have a good life. Leadership is making a difference to the people or team you lead, when you are there and when you are not there. It is combinations of different abilities one must have, which include being able to persuade, influence, motivate and inspire others to reach a particular goal. A good leader gives compulsion to people to do what they ordinarily may not do.
The ten personality characteristics are self-knowledge, open to feedback, eager to learn, curious risk takers, concentrates at work, learn from adversity, balance tradition & change, open style, work well with systems and serve as models & mentors. The four competencies of leaders are management of attention, meaning, trust and self. Bennis mentions that empowerment is the effect of leadership. In organizations with effective leaders, empowerment is most evident in four themes: people feel significant, learning and competence matters, people are part of a community and work is exciting. In summation, this article introduced descriptive traits and competencies of
After decades of lies and industry propaganda, the truth is finally coming out: junk food kills. Even after the effort of some states to tax soda pop, require healthier school lunches, or mandate calorie information in chain restaurants, obesity rates are still growing. Studies have shown that school organic gardens, salad bars and healthy lunches improve the health and academic performance of young people. Healthy eating habits and gardening skills nurtured and developed at an early age most often have a lifetime impact. A 100% tax on junk food and beverages would help pay for the collateral damages of this industry: the $150 billion in diet-related disease and health-care costs now incurred by the public and taxpayers for obesity and diabetes.
284). As regarding the pragmatic approach, such mentors tend to clearly indicate their authority in the mentoring relationship, via “imparting knowledge and skills to the learner” and providing precise and clear instructions to the mentee (Kwan & Lopez‐Real, 2005, p. 282). On the other hand, interpersonal mentor promotes the idea of mutual support, sharing and collaboration, which can facilitate professional growth both for the mentor and student teacher, for instance, as Kwan and Lopez‐Real (2005) clarify, a critical friend mentor is defined as a supporting friend, who nevertheless, can provide some constructive criticism for the sake of the mentee's professional improvement. Managerial style was regarded the least popular style among mentors, which can be explained by a highly judgemental and least flexible nature of the approach, comparing to pragmatic and interpersonal styles. Interestingly, but the change in perceptions of the mentoring roles was found in course of time and experience for some of the mentors and was influenced by two reasons: either because of the student’s
Analyzing Michael Saul Dell as Leader in the Context of Transformational Leadership Theory Transformational leadership works when leaders set out to empower followers and nurture them in creating change. They act as role models for their followers, listen to them and make them have a vision (which is a focal point for transformational leadership). Northouse (2007), pp. 189 – 190 Moving on to analyze the extent to which Michael Dell’s leadership style explains the theory of Transformational Leadership using the four factors and other characteristics of the theory will help to ascertain if indeed ‘Transformational Leadership is an effective form of leadership’. (Yukl, 1999 in Northouse, 2007), pp.
With a bit of knowledge, even the poorer can be informed that if they can’t afford low GI starches, eating maize meal cold significantly lowers the GI. again the choice would be up to the individual then, as to whether or not they would be prepared to eat their maize meal cold. Sugar is also a major contribution, and is in everything we eat, from a packet of Simba chips to salad dressing to tinned food. Large corporates such as Coca-Cola, producers of very high sugar products, should also be considered drivers of the global diabetes