Personal Narrative: My Leadership Style

My leadership style is best described as a funnel. My aim in leading others is not to conduct every single individual, but to guide everyone to work towards the same central goal. I believe it is best to let others bring their own unique abilities to the table and use them to accomplish the task at hand. One of my most memorable experiences as a leader was leading my school’s student section. When I came into high school, school spirit was a joke. At games, everyone sat and no one said a thing. I decided that needed to change. My fellow students didn’t want change. They told my friends and I to sit down and shut up. I kept standing, I yelled louder, and kept going. Eventually, I started a spark. By the end of my freshman year there were a group
of students getting into it. My sophomore year the spirit continued to grow. Then came my junior year. I formed a group of spirited students and we become the unofficial leaders of our unofficial club. We kept telling people to come to the games and gave ideas of what to bring. Then came the big first game. I would never have guessed how big the student section had become. There were countless noisemakers, several drums to play, over twenty pounds of powder to throw, confetti, dozens of rolls streamer, and around a fifth of the student population. I led the chaos into a symphony of chants, songs, and dancing. By the end of football season we had become one of the greatest student sections in the state named “The Pit.” As I look back and think, had I never stepped up to be a leader, crickets could still be heard in Racer Stadium.