The leadership course that I took was PSYC 303, Industrial and Organizational Psychology. This course discusses psychological principles and research of human behavior in the work settings. The different topics we discussed were personnel selection, training, evaluation, motivation, job satisfaction, and organizational leadership and theory.

One of our big assignments was to pick a theory, describe it, evaluate a scenario that has happened to us at work, and analyze how the theory was used in the scenario. I can admit that when I first started this assignment, I had no clue what I was doing. It was so much harder to think about the scenarios at work because there are so many that happen. After reading and understanding all the theories, I finally decided on the best one. The theory that I discussed was Input-Process-Output Model of Team Effectiveness.  This theory states how input helps or hurts a team’s performance and ways they can maximize it. My scenario states how I currently work at a daycare for military children. I stated how ratio works, and what the schedule of the day consists of. We are supposed to work as a team and if one person doesn’t participate it makes it hard for the rest of the team. In one room in the hall, they do not work as a team. They believe that training is only supposed to be the trainer’s responsibility. Input-Process- Output Model of Team Effectiveness would best apply to this scenario. 

This experience has allowed me to learn better communication and leadership skills. I was able to look at a situation at work and use a theory to help provide a better solution. It also allowed to help my department learn new skills that will make us work as a team and have better success. Learning the different theories will let me look at each scenario at my job through a different lens. A coworker of mine was losing faith that she would never get the full time position at our job. I used the skills that I learned, to help her look at the reasons why she did not receive full time. I used my leadership skills to help her and she became full time within a couple months of helping her. If I continue to use these skills in my future career, I will be a respectful, responsible, and organized leader. I will be able to motivate my employees. I learned that I am already an organized leader. I tend to make sure I am organized before I start anything. I believe that I need to work on my communication skills as I tend to get nervous, so it is hard to understand me as I am catching on my words. I believe that within due time, I will gain more respect from my coworkers and employees in the future. 

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