In concluding this class, I have gained a new outlook on leadership than the one I had from before. I have learned that leadership isn’t about being in charge and leading a group of people. Leadership is about collectively joining thoughts and coming together to complete a goal. There are many different aspects that go into leadership. You must have patience to deal with different people and ideas. You must be able to sort through these ideas with respect to all of those given and be able to communicate to your team what the plan is.

We have made a finding that followership is just as important, if not more important than leadership itself. Without followers, there’s no leader. But than again, without a good leader, there’s no real reason for the followers. The followers need someone they can rely on to get their ideas across and to depend on to meet a required goal. Being a leader is more than just being in charge. I feel that somebody who tries to take over is not a good leader.

My statement would be what I pretty much said earlier. “Without followers, there’s no leader. But without a good leader, there’s no real reason for the followers”. Throughout this class, we have had many different talks and we got to meet many different kinds of people, all with different values and styles of leadership. I think we’ve all realized that a leader is only as good as their followers. The leader is what makes the plan but the followers are what make their ideas come to life. That is what makes a team successful.