Part 8: The five personal values and beliefs I have selected out of that list are success, wealth, friendship, happiness and family. Reasoning's for these selections аге listed below, but аге not listed in order of importance to me. Success: being business orientated, 1 believe success is very important to me. With whatever 1 do whether it Ье school, work or hobby related, 1 always strive to Ье as successful as сап Ье. ln school, 1 try my best to get good marks, make sure everything is submitted on time, regularly check to make sure I am understanding all concepts, and feel comfortaЫe and proud of myself for the success I have. 1 believe success is а key component to living а relaxed life in the future, where one is proud of their accomplishments. Wealth: 1 am very money minded and I believe wealth plays а Ьig part in my life. 1 am always trying to find opportunities to make money as well as having an entrepreneur side with creating my own companies. lt makes me extremely happy when my work is doing what I love and enjoy, and I continue to get busier and busier with customers. Friendship: 1 believe friendship is very important. Since preschool, 1 have been hanging out with а group of ten main guys. We all went to elementary, high school, and now all attend the University of Guelph together. From this, 1 have learned how important it is to have true friendships and surround yourself with people who genuinely саге about you the same you do about them. ln business, friendships and making relationships with customers will take things to а new level. Happiness: happiness is а key part to anyone's life, regardless of their other beliefs and values. lf one is not happy, every aspect of their life including work, friends, family, and more will Ье negatively impacted. You сап Ье as successful as сап Ье, or have all the money in the world, but if you’re not truly happy in general, life will not be as enjoyable and priorities, life style and other things need to be changed. Family: Family has always been a huge part of my life. My parents have always been extremely supportive of every decision I’ve made, and how raised me to be a respectful young adult. My sister and I have had our ups and downs, but I would consider her one of my best friends which is a rare occurrence with a brother and sister relationship. Because my parents have treated me the way they have, allowed me to participate in so many opportunities, as well as always putting myself in front of them, I know how to treat people with respect, have similar values and beliefs to them, and will care for them once that time comes. These five values and beliefs have impacted my leadership in different ways. When I am in the position of leading a group, I believe my friendship and family instincts kick in. I always try to be as friendly as possible, and make everyone feel comfortable from day one. With this, I have the opportunity to create new friendships which has happened from many group projects during my time at the University of Guelph. I believe this will affect my future of leadership in a positive way by creating friendships in the workplace with other employees, or even customers. Currently, I work at Canadian tire and co-own a landscape company with a close friend. By dealing with customers almost every day, I find it very important to impress them with customer service and show genuine care about their thoughts and ideas. This will help me become successful in a business world. Success and wealth are a good thing to strive for currently and in the future, but can also affect me in a negative way. If these beliefs and values get to my head more than they should, it may affect my communication skills and other leadership skills with group members, employees or customers because I am too self-focused and might worry too much about the success for myself, rather than everyone on that team. All of these beliefs and values can affect interactions and certain situations in both a positive and negative way. For instance, if I am a member for a group project and the remainder of the group members are okay with what has been submitted, but I believe some changes can be made to be more successful. Although it may help, if the group members have no interest in doing more work to improve on what’s been one, I may get stressed out and express my feelings which could lead to awkwardness in the group or other group issues. I know that these beliefs and values are important to me, but I need to understand limitations and that I can’t always get my way. I believe I can grow as a person with these selected values by making sure my interest in family and friendship stays true after school and when I can no longer see my friends and family members as much. I believe this can take me a long way in business when my customers realize the care and genuine interest I have for them. Success and wealth can help me grow as a person by sharing my success and being an influencer to others to help them be successful as well. If I one day become very successful with whatever I do, I would like to teach and inform people about the steps I took, the values and beliefs that were most important to get there, and what leadership skills it took to get to the level where I might be. Part 9: 1. Who am I as a leader? - Currently I believe I am a leader who shows a lot of care to others, and puts others in front of myself more often than other leaders I have come across. Some particular values I believe I hold at this moment as a leader are thoughtful, seeks change, practical, loyal and cooperative. I am always open for change as long as it makes things more efficient, and allows for our group to work more productively. One thing that stands out about my leadership style that differs from others is my care for others within my past and current groups. I think this is very important and I shouldn’t change it, as it will create many friendships in the future with everyone I work with. 2. Who do I want to be as a leader in the long term? - I want to be a leader that employees, group members, and peers can rely on for whatever they need. I want everyone to recognize me as someone who genuinely cares, and strives to be the best I can be and wants the best for his group. Three things I strive to work on as a leader in the future are to become more competitive, inspirational and practical. I believe these three things will take what I have now, and really push me to become the best leader I can be. Being more competitive will allow my group to step our game up compared to other groups within the same field and stand out to possible customers or higher work gets done regardless of where it is completed and the customers are happy, then there shouldn’t be any issues. 6. What is my role as a leader? - My role as a leader is to make sure all the tasks get completed, group members, customers and everyone involved is happy and understands all the concepts regarding the work fully as well as showing lots of initiative and work ethic throughout the process. I believe that if I stay true to these roles, that everyone involved, including myself, will be pleased with the turnouts of each scenario and assignments in the future. 7. What do my followers expect of me? - My followers expect honesty and proper communication to get the tasks done. If at any time in a group setting that there isn’t honesty, things never work out well. I believe trusting in each of your group members to get the job done well and on time is a big part of leadership, and if you display that to your group members, they will act the same towards each other. 8. What are the outcomes I will strive for as a leader? - Like I mentioned in question 6, I want everyone involved to be happy with the outcomes of each scenario that is to come. By everyone involved I mean group members, coworkers, customers, management etc. I believe if this is one of the main outcomes that I strive for, my workplace will be a much happier and enjoyable place to be part of and make life much easier regarding work and leadership. 9. How will my leadership reflect my mission and my core values? - My leadership has and will continue to reflect on my mission and my core values. Since being in university, I have been put in many leadership scenarios in and outside of school. I continue to stay true to this and having core values that dictate my behavior, I try to keep them positive and care for the other individuals within my group. Core values are extremely important to me as they help determine if I am on the right path and if I am fulfilling my goals or not, so if my leadership style is successful, I know I’m on the right track. Part 10: During a summer job last year, I came across a situation that my values conflicted with. I worked for a landscaping company for the majority of my summers off from school, and really enjoyed it. We did great work and always pleased the customers wants and needs, which was very important to me. During one of our jobs, it was getting close to the end of the day, and everyone wanted to wrap up as quick as possible so we could start our weekend. While completing a task with one of my co-workers which has been there for a lot longer than me, we came across an obstacle that would have required us to stay about 30 minutes to an hour after our scheduled time to complete the job properly. While his mindset was to get out of there on time or sooner, he wanted to finish the job in a desultory way. I was upset with this decision and knew it would create issues with the boss, especially if the customer complained down the road once taking a look over the work. Customer satisfaction and service is one of the things I strive for with any job, and think it is extremely important to be successful and to build one’s business. Due to this, I mentioned my thoughts about the situation and was clear that I didn’t agree with him. Due to this, there was a slight argument which resulted in me staying late with a different co-worker, while the original person I was working with went home on time with the remaining group. 1) What did you do, and what was the impact? Like I mentioned, I was very honest about my opinion of the scenario and made sure my coworker understood why I didn’t agree with what he expected of me. Although he was upset at the fact I didn’t want to work with him to get the job done quickly so we could go home and was more concerned with customer satisfaction, I knew I was doing what was right. My boss multiple presentations throughout the semester, and one large document to be submitted at the end of the term. 1) What happened? Although I don’t tend to have many issues with group members, for some reason one or two of the members in this particular class were hard to work with. They didn’t come to class much, always made excuses why they couldn’t meet to discuss tasks and our assignments etc. I knew the completion of work would be an issue with the members, so I made sure to set certain tasks to each member early and be sure that everyone knows that is expected of them, that they understand the concepts and that there were no issues. The presentations went well and everything was completed on time, but when it came to the end of term paper that was due, things started going downhill. They weren’t cooperating very well, and as time was running out I began to worry about this being completed on time. I got in touch with the professor of the class, and she tried messaging the group and making sure we all understand the consequences if this doesn’t get completed in time and if we don’t participate in the group project. One this was done, all members began to take things more seriously except for one. I felt as if I annoyed the group with bombarding them with messages each day, and didn’t want them to get a bad opinion of me so I ended up covering the majority of this one particular group members work, so that I didn’t have to worry anymore. 2) Why didn’t you speak up or act? Like mentioned, I felt as if I ignored the group enough, especially this one group member who I’ve been trying to contact for days. I didn’t want them to think I was annoying or that I was worrying over nothing, so I figured I’d just complete the work myself. 3) How satisfied are you? How would you like to have responded? I was not satisfied in myself knowing that I could be pushed around like that so easily. Although it was nice knowing I didn’t have to worry about it being completed, a part of me was disappointed in myself for being too nice to that particular group member and completed his work for him. I wish I would have responded by leaving it up to him to complete, and if he didn’t then he would face academic consequences. That being said, it was a group mark and we were all responsible for making sure it was complete, so I didn’t want to go through the headaches of getting our marks raised by explaining and showing proof to the professor about the situation. 4) What would have made it easier for you to speak/act? If my other group members were more helpful. Either way they could have helped to make this easier for everyone. To begin, they could have helped split up his work and it would have been completed in no time. That way, it was a group effort and wasn’t a huge favour to ask everyone in the group. The other alternative to this would have been to try and contact him as well. In our group chats, it seemed as if I was the only one who cared and ever put anything in that chat. It’s a little discouraging when no one else participates and puts in the effort you do, so I think both of these options would have made this much easier for me to resolve the issue. Part 11: After completing both trial, A and B of the Gender-Leader implicit association test, my results showed many associations regarding these categories afterwards. Regarding trial A, it