Crotonville

“The main thing I learned about leadership is that one must display confidence to lead. Getting up in front of forty to eighty people and speaking is harrowing enough as it is, but to do so under the previously mentioned conditions was even worse. Facing the fact that in all reality the students should have been teaching me, I noticed that I was taken more seriously the more forward and seriously I acted. Although I initially was quiet and put a disclaimer into every assertion I made, by acting confident and competent I impressed my boss and those I taught to. Even as I was the youngest and most unexperienced in the group, I still felt like I was an important part of the intership and pivotal in many of the programs we developed.”

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