In last week’s post, I wrote that one of my most important responsibilities when in a position of leadership is the people on my team. This got me thinking about experiences I’ve had supervising student and professional staff over the last 16 years, major “aha” moments and lessons I learned along the way, and great supervisors I’ve had in my career that have influenced how I lead.
As a storyteller, one of the genres I’ve loved all my life are superhero stories, including watching DC and Marvel stories on the big and small screen. In workshops on storytelling, I’ve asked folks to think about their origin stories, and as I wrote my posts for July 6 and 13, and today’s, I realized these posts share key points of my own origin story.
In my post on February 16th, I wrote about empowering youth in the development of their leadership and career skills, and I’ll be diving deeper into these themes in my next two posts. In today’s post I want to share some of the different leadership development books and resources I’ve used throughout my career that I would recommend to anyone working with young people (or anyone).
As we hear so often, the problems previous generations create are the problems our youth will inherit, or are already having to navigate and solve. This is why one of the most important things we can do as educators, parents, family members, and/or mentors is to empower/continue empowering the youth in our lives to share their voices and become involved in creating the changes our world needs.