Leadership has many different faces. Sometimes it is old, other times it is young.
I interviewed Dr. John Falconer to find out if there is much difference between his leadership perspective as a male than mine as a female. I found is that we believe many of the same ideas about leadership, but we have different methods of executing those ideas.
Dr. Falconer has held many different leadership positions throughout his lifetime. At UNK he has served as the Director of Sponsored Programs, the Director of Undergrad Research, and currently serves as the Director of the Honors Program. He exemplifies leadership in his position with the Honors program by continually striving to advance the Honors opportunities for students, as well as improve the…show more content… Falconer’s views on leadership. The piece that stuck out to me the most was that leadership is about something bigger than yourself. Growing up I played a lot of basketball and I cannot count the number of times I heard this message from my coaches. Even though I didn’t really feel like I was a leader of any of these teams, several of my coaches told me they noticed strong leadership qualities in me. Perhaps it was because I tried my best to take the “team-first” mentality to heart. It wasn’t about me, it was about us. I think that if someone wants to be a leader because they want people to know their name, then they’re in it for the wrong reasons. Like Dr. Falconer, I believe that leadership is about being part of something you are passionate about and giving your best effort to advance that cause. One thing part of Dr. Falconer’s style that would be difficult for me is leading from behind. I do not necessarily feel the need to always be recognized as a leader, or always be the one barking orders, but I also find it difficult to sit back and wait for someone else to take action. A similar type of leadership that I would be more inclined to use would be leadership by example. In this style, the leader does not get up tell the group what do, they put their head down and go to work, which typically inspires others to do the
