Leadership plays a huge role in my internship, much more that I expected it would. Within the first week of my internship, my manager assigned me the role of being project manager for the planning of a huge international, annual conference! I was shocked that I had been given such an important role so soon, but I was also extremely excited because keeping people on track and making sure deadlines are met are a few of my strong suits! The planning for this conference can be a bit overwhelming at times, because there is so much information, and so many people that have to be accommodated, and since I wasn't at the conference last year, I don't really have much to reference when it comes to planning this year's conference. Although I face these challenges, my team members have been so great about helping me out with the planning and guiding me when I need some previous reference from someone with more experience.
I have also been heading up the planning and implementation of a sustainability plan to ensure that the use of a new learning tool is effective in the office among the staff. I have created an interactive contest that will engage the employees in the new learning tool and will incentivize them to utilize the tool more than they have been. The results of the contest and the usage of the tool will then be presented to our CEO for approval.
My co-workers and supervisor display leadership capabilities on a daily basis. Because we are part of the Learning and Development team, we often have to take a lot of initiative in teaching ourselves a program or skill, so we can become an expert on it, and then teach that skill in return to other employees.
Hello Mackenzie, You can consider me jealous of the opportunities that you have to exercise and display leadership so early on in your career. I had applied for internship in Phoenix’s Neighborhood revitalization department before receiving the offer for the one that I am in right now, and sometimes I wonder what it would have been like to work in the community to plan events and outreach programs at the grass roots level, similarly to your situation. Although things may seem a bit daunting at times, in my opinion you sound like the right person for the job so good luck with your internship and any other future endeavors that lay ahead.
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