Master of Science in Leadership RG 5043

The Chief Operating Officer of the Council on Aging is a friend of mine who had an excellent job and getting paid excellently well who decided to be the COO of COA, a non-profit organization here in Florida.  She’s far away from retirement age.  When I asked her what made her leave a high paying job to be a COO of Council on Aging, her response actually surprised me.  She has been chairing non-profit organizations like PACE here at the Volusia/Flagler County for free or without compensation, and she found it very rewarding. I have not seen my friend so happy, and every time I see her, she looks younger than the last time I saw her.  She relayed that the enthusiasm of their employees who are compensated not as much as private organizations’ workforce, are very contented and are happy with their current positions.  My COO friend surveyed her employees on what makes their work rewarding.  She said that 83% of the responses were regarding their encounter with their aging customers and t

For generations, women have been construed as a secondary member of the society,  always second to men.  Although women are considered oppress, we can all agree that without women, a family cannot be considered a success.  Mothers give up their profession to take care of their household and most especially their children.  Women have always been born as leaders.  This is the journey that women has chosen. One of Sandberg’s (2010) messages regarding women’s need to believe in themselves and own their own success by learning to negotiate for themselves speak to me the most.  As a leader, it has been a struggle developing my leadership traits of self-confidence, delegation, and communication.  Northouse (2015) defined self-confidence as the ability to be implicit in one's abilities and competencies including having a sense of self-assurance and self-esteem to make a difference.  There were some incidences where some of my projects were not going where I had envisioned, and my despo

The Explorable website defined case study as an in-depth research or study of a detailed story or rather than a survey that is based on statistics.  A case study can be built in a real situation or problem where some portions of the story can be disguised as to prevent public exposure or simply for privacy reasons.  A case study describes and introduces a business or an industry’s account over the years, chronicling a leader’s methods of responding to a situation that generally implicates changing a corporate level strategy.  A case study is developed for educational purposes to give students practice to carefully consider, assess, and examine a real or makeshift business scenario that requires determination to solve a business problem or issue. Through this course, by responding to different case studies my research skills have certainly been improved and enhanced.  I have learned the value of doing further research about the given company or organization via the internet, in addit