e wanted any help, and if he was sure that he didn’t need the extra hand. In other words, to me it seemed like he wanted to bear all the weight on his shoulders. Chris wasn’t appointed or elected. No one challenged him as he took on the position of leader in the group; therefore I assumed that no one had a problem with it. The leadership style that I thought the group conformed to was the democratic style. Chris, being the leader, approached us as a group about the views that were laid out on the table, and we chose which idea that was consistent with our presentation style. Each member was allowed to express his or her opinions freely, and I had enough trust in Chris to know which idea would or wouldn’t work. Another way of explaining the scale of leadership is this by comparing it to the rank of power in the American Government. Chris is president, Dan is Vice-President, Amy is the Secretary of State, and Brian is Secretary of Defense. I can’t judge where I fit in there because that wouldn’t be fair to me group members if I rank my self higher than what I really was. When we got together for our work sessions, as individuals we took on our roles of listeners, talkers, advisers, comedians, daydreamers, and so on. Of course the majority of the time we spent was covering the material, but at one point or another we would end up off track and talking about a completely different topic. We started off each meeting, when Chris would introduce how far along we are with visual aids, and information. Then he would ask each of us to recap on the information that we gathered and if we can cover our asses when it came to our part of the presentation. What’s good about that is he would get us focused on being prepared for our meeting, instead of showing up empty handed. Another good thing about Chris is that he is as good as his word. Everything he said he would do, he did and not a penny short. What was bad a...
