Leadership Module 2 -Walesca Marrero

Leadership Skills Assessment   (Leadership Assessment #1)

I scored a 67 an Excellent. Personally there is always room for improvement. A good leader in my opinion is a person who is full of positive energy, integrity, motivates, and believes that a person has the opportunity for growth if they choose to, it the unconditional. I have tried to surround myself with people like that often after all we can do bad all by ourselves. One of my favorite quotes is from Albert Einstein that said “Action is Eloquence “and we all know all about Einstein.

My all-time favorite leader is Abraham Lincoln he reminds me that just because we are different we are still human beings. His leadership was one with compassion and hope. In my job I have to work with low income families and sometimes it’s not easy, but I try to do the best I can to help them and provide them a network 

of support with everything from medical, educational and training for entering the workforce.

Developing Leadership Skills Self-Assessment (Leadership Assessment #2)

Assessing the Environment scored 59

My strengths in this area is being able to network with community partners  such as DHHR, BOE, WV NCCA, WV Extensions Services and our faith based community to develop ideas that will help assess community problems then come up with a plan to meet the community needs. This is what I do for my line of work. My area of improvements would have to be getting better at working with the local government and civic groups.

Creating Clarity: Visioning and Mobilizing scored 71

My strength as a collaborative leader is being able to bring people together to come up with a solution. Improvement in creating clarity I do this by being very active in my community.

Building Trust Scored 61

I build trust by living by what I say I am going to do and by being accountable for my actions whether right or wrong. I need to improve on trusting others, I know that if I expect people to trust me then I must learn to trust others more.

Sharing Power and Influence Scored 66

My strength in sharing power and influences is I am not afraid to say you did a great job, thank you for helping me get the job done. Sharing power is not a big deal for me if my team does a good job then it reflects back to me. Improvements would be maybe to get some training on how to get better at it.

Developing People Scored 65

I have recently in the last six year gotten better at this because my job requires me to train our AmeriCorps VISTAS. I train my people and give them plenty of room to grow and share their ideas and talents I don’t proclaim to know it all I think if your give people you train the right tools then you let them exercise what they are learning then that is a good thing. I need