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Alexis Moff Final Leadership Paper Volunteer, scholar, philosopher, medical professional, leader, I like to use these adjectives

to describe me. I have a vast amount of versatility in my interests. This is why I was enticed by the Leadership program at the University of Central Florida in the first place. The Lead Scholars program at UCF was another means of learning and personal growth. It gave me the drive to give my time and a part of myself to the aid of others. It allowed me to devote a set portion of my life towards the benefit of others. I truly learned a lot from the program, from specific techniques of leadership and service all the way to broad ideas of what it means to be a leader and what serving others is. It has allowed me to blossom. It is tailored to my life plan and molds into my life plan of action. The leadership training I have received in the Lead Scholars program at UCF has simultaneously stimulated my love for learning, helping others, and personal growth and intertwined with my love of philosophy and medicine to make me a well-rounded person who will accomplish great things. Leadership may have a different meaning to me than it does for other people. Leadership is a holistic concept that infects my everyday life. I try to integrate leadership into everything I do. I try to use the 7 Cs: collaboration, common purpose, controversy with civility, citizenship, consciousness of self, congruence, and commitment, to bring about social change and changes in my life. As a manager at Pita Pit, I use the 3 Cs pertaining to group values. I collaborate with my employees and employers and any controversies are resolved civilly (Higher Education Research Institute 1). I share the

common purpose of doing my job to the best of my ability with them. Leadership classes have helped me so much with this aspect of my life, because as a manager, even of a food establishment, you need leadership skills to do the job effectively. As a student, I maintain congruence and consciousness of self by diligently committing myself to my schoolwork. My belief, thoughts, and behaviors keep me on the path towards becoming a doctor and my creativity allows me to incorporate leadership, philosophy, and medicine into one beautiful road. I am continuously improving my commitment and employing the leadership art of service learning as a volunteer. Change, in other words, is the ultimate goal of the creative process of leadership- to make a better world and a better society for ourselves and others. Leadership is a very p ersonal thing for me. I want to bring about a change that is detailed in this quote. It is congruent with my primary life goal of helping others in any way I can. Leadership is a versatile idea. It can apply to many different things and people have different definitions of what it means. The most applicable method of leadership to me is leadership through service. As a volunteer, I put my leadership to work; I believe my dedication to my service organization, Straight Street Orlando, is the most valuable thing I got out of being a Lead scholar. Leadership through service is a growing idea that has been applied in several colleges, such as UCF and even Harvard. Harvard states that they foster a culture of community service that embraces those who study, teach and work there (Harvard 1). The movie Patch Adams is a perfect example of how leadership through service and medicine go along with each other. It is about a man who admits himself into the hospital for attempting suicide and leaves to become a doctor. It shows the struggle of him as a medical professional, who sincerely wants to

help people, but is somewhat rebuffed. He says in the movie, I want ed to become a doctor so I could serve others. This is an amazing and applicable quote, because leadership through service as a Lead scholar was my first step towards this same goal. My love of learning is only paralleled and complimented by my need for personal growth. This is why I have taken on the seemingly impossible task of being a philosophy major, a leadership minor, and a premedical student. Leadership ties into medicine and philosophy beautifully. To be a doctor you must be a leader. You must realize, as a physician, that in the medical field no one can stand alone and collaborative leadership must be employed. The Mcgill Journal of medicine states that there are four skills needed to being a leader in the medical profession (Collins-Nakai 3-4). First, the ability to work in social systems, which I was taught through the sociology of medicine class that my minor in leadership has required me to take. Also, the ability to contribute and work in teams, as was taught to me in my first semester as a Lead scholar with the seven Cs. The ability to think creatively and adapt evidence-based practices is another skill needed by leaders in the medical field. I am continuously trying to take a more creative approach to gathering my evidence. Finally, they need the ability to differentiate between solutions that require technical (known but not yet used) solutions or negotiate entirely new solutions as needed. This seems to me like the ability to think outside of the box. I remember as a first year Lead student, we were given scenarios on morality and told to come up with numerous reasons as to what side of the argument we were on and debate our sides. This forced me to think outside the box and come up with new solutions for problems. Leadership has helped me in my philosophy studies for nearly the same purposes. Philosophy is about coming up with creative solutions to idealistic

problems. It is entirely based on reason and evidence for why you believe what you believe. You must build on other philosophers ideas or create entirely new ones. They all coincide perfectly as a science, art, and act; hopefully I will be able to use all that I have learned to become a better leader, scholar, and future doctor and I

Works Cited Collins-Nakai, Ruth. "LEADERSHIP IN MEDICINE." National Center for Biotechnology Information. U.S. National Library of Medicine, 26 June 0005. "Harvard: Leadership through Service." Harvard Gazette. N.p., n.d. Patch Adams. Dir. Tom Shadyac. Perf. Robin Williams, Daniel London, and Monica Porter. Polygram, 1998. Film. Social Change Model of Leadership. Los Angeles: Higher Education Research Institute. 1996. 3rd ed. UCLA

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