I am Weronika Paluszek, a senior majoring in Public Relation at Virginia Tech. This ePorfolio is made to show my academic studies and personal experience in leadership and it is dedicated to my Leadership and Social Change minor. I am originally from the beautiful city in Poland – Wroclaw, where I spent my whole life before I came to the United States. Since I was a kid, my whole free time I spent at the pool, and I have been swimming since I was three years old. After high school I decided to move to the Blacksburg and become a part of Virginia Tech Swimming and Diving team. Throughout my swimming career here in VT I had ups and down, but I have learned a lot about myself and people around me. I hold the captain position in my team since 2014, and the knowledge that I have gained because of my leadership classes helped me understand my team and the social interactions better, and helped me to become a better leader.
At the beginning I had troubles with deciding what I would want to do in my life, but I knew that I want to get a degree from College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences. After majoring one year in Multimedia Journalism I switched to Public Relations, and now I am also minoring both in Leadership and Social Change, and International Studies. I am planning to graduate Virginia Tech in December 2016 and now it is a good time for me to look back into my college experience, reflect and take lessons from it.
Leadership for me is setting up a positive example for people around me, encouraging and motivating them to achieve the common goals. Leaders should know when to step up and when to let others lead. They should try to recognize the problems and work on solutions that are the best for everyone. Leadership is not about telling people what to do, but making them want to do something in order to make a group better and achieve common goals.
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more – You are a leader.” – John Quincy Adams
“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality” – Warren Bennis
f your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, YOU ARE A LEADER.– John Quincy Adams “ ”
5. A LEADER IS A DEALER IN HOPE- Napoleon Bonaparte
6. “A LEADER…IS LIKE A SHEPHERD. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.” – Nelson Mandela
7. “HE WHO HAS NEVER LEARNED TO OBEY CANNOT BE A GOOD COMMANDER.” A R I S T O T L E
8. LEADERSHIP IS THE ART Of Getting Someone Else To Do Something YOU WANT DONE Because He Wants To Do It. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
9. As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. BILLGATES
10. “A GOOD LEADER is a person who takes a little more Than His Share Of The Blame and a little less than his share of the credit.” – John Maxwell
11. BECOME THE KIND OF LEADER that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no TITLE or POSITION. – Brian Tracy
12. The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. “ ” – George Orwell
13. “I Start Each Day By Telling Myself What A +POSITIVE Influence I Am On This World.” – Peter Daisyme
14. “EARNYOUR LEADERSHIP EVERY DAY.” – Michael Jordan
15. “BEFORE YOU ARE A LEADER, WHEN YOU BECOME A LEADER, Success Is All About Growing Yourself. Success Is All About Growing Others.” – Jack Welch
16. LEADERSHIP IS LIFTING A PERSON’S VISION to high sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. “ ” – Peter Drucker
17. “MY JOB IS NOT TO BE EASY ON PEOPLE. My job is to take these great people we have and to PUSH them and make them even BETTER.” STEVE JOBS
18. “The led must not be compelled. They must be able to choose their own leader.” – Albert Einstein
19. “GREAT LEADERSfind ways to connect with their people and help them fulfill their potential.” – Steven J. Stowell
20. “To have LONG-TERM success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.” – Pat Riley
21. “IF YOU THINK YOU ARE LEADING AND TURN AROUND TO SEE NO ONE FOLLOWING, THEN YOU ARE JUST TAKING A WALK.” – Benjamin Hooks
22. THE CHALLENGE OF LEADERSHIP is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly. – Jim Rohn “ ”
24. “TO DO GREAT THINGS IS DIFFICULT; BUT TO COMMAND GREAT THINGS IS MORE DIFFICULT.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
25. It is absolutely necessary for me to have persons that can think for me, AS WELL AS EXECUTE ORDERS. – George Washington
26. LEADERS AREN’T BORN, THEY ARE MADE. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. – Vince Lombardi
27. A COWARDLY LEADER is the most dangerous of men. – Stephen King
28. Progress comes from caring more about what needs to be done than about who gets the credit 1″Dorothy”Height”
29. Not the cry, but the flight of a wild duck, LEADS THE FLOCK TO FLY AND FOLLOW. – Chinese Proverb
30. THE ULTIMATE MEASURE of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
31. “The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is NOT diminished in the process.” “1”Andrew”Carnegie”
32. AVERAGE LEADERS raise the bar on themselves; GOOD LEADERS raise the bar for others; GREAT LEADERS inspire others to raise their own bar. – Orrin Woodward
33. Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the MOB. – Oscar Wilde
34. Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish. “ ” – Sam Walton
35. “Example is not the main thing in influencing others. IT IS THE ONLY THING.” – Albert Schweitzer
36. If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to DREAM MORE, LEARN MORE, DO MORE & BECOME MORE, then, you are an excellent leader. – Dolly Parton
37. I am reminded how hollow THE LABEL OF LEADERSHIP sometimes is and how heroic followership can be. – Warren Bennis
41. “A Ruler Should Be Slow To PUNISH And Swift To REWARD.” – Ovid
42. You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a LEADER – Henry Ford
43. Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty, and industry. Don’t take too much advice — keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world. “ – Noah Porter
44. “Don’t blow off another’s candle for it won’t make yours shine BRIGHTER.” – Jaachynma N.E. Agu
45. I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, WHICH IS: TRY TO PLEASE EVERYBODY. – Herbert Swope
46. “He who has learned how to OBEY will know how to COMMAND.” – Solon
47. If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform ONE MILLION REALITIES. M A Y A A N G E L O U
48. The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it. “ ”-Theodore Roosevelt
I am Weronika Paluszek, a senior majoring in Public Relation at Virginia Tech. This ePorfolio is made to show my academic studies and personal experience in leadership and it is dedicated to my Leadership and Social Change minor. I am originally from the beautiful city in Poland – Wroclaw, where I spent my whole life before I came to the United States. Since I was a kid, my whole free time I spent at the pool, and I have been swimming since I was three years old. After high school I decided to move to the Blacksburg and become a part of Virginia Tech Swimming and Diving team. Throughout my swimming career here in VT I had ups and down, but I have learned a lot about myself and people around me. I hold the captain position in my team since 2014, and the knowledge that I have gained because of my leadership classes helped me understand my team and the social interactions better, and helped me to become a better leader.
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