Executive Yearbook Editor 2017
Head Cheerleader 2016-17
Name: Emilie Joan Mudd
From: Hallettsville, Texas
Siblings: 2 younger brothers, Ryan (16 y/o) Wyatt (11 y/o)
Hobbies/Interests: Cheerleading, basketball, snowboarding, photography, and my pup dogs.
Major: Pre-Nursing
Leadership Experiences: Head Cheerleader, Teen ACTS Director, Executive Yearbook Editor, ect.
Copper Mountain 2015
TAPPS State Champions 2016
Trait Leadership Theory: people are either born or made with certain qualities that will help them to excel in leadership roles. This theory focuses on analyzing mental, physical, and social characteristics of leaders.
Transformational Leadership Theory: focuses on the process of how one interacts with others to build a solid relationship with them, which raises their percentage of trust and likability. This then turns into a motivation, both intrinsic and extrinsic, in both leaders and followers. Leaders transform their followers through their inspirational nature and charismatic personalities.
Situational Leadership Theory: The theory that no single style of leadership is able to be successful in every situation. Each situation deserves a different style of leadership. This signifies that their are certain leaders who will excel at the maximum level in certain situations, but when taken out of their element, they will have a minimal performance.
Fear, information control and personality disorders keep a tight grip on dictatorship. Psychologists who study terrorism and dictators are able to spread fear among their propels and place themselves as their only salvation. Dictators will manufacture an outside threat like the Hitler did with the Jews, or current Kim Jong Un is doing with the entire West. It helps keep the society in a constant paranoia state and off balanced psychologically. Dictators also exploit a well-known insctict for most people, to seek protection from a “strong leader.” Our behaviors are still affected by the past and what went on thousands of years ago. Society’s bond to strong and powerful leaders is because the history of survival. Take the Holocaust into consideration, those who were for Hitler survived…this human instinct has been passed along the decades. Just like any leadership position, personality comes into play.. Jerrold Post, director of the political psychology program at George Washington University, has studied the personalities of successful dictators for several decades.. referring to North Korea and Iraq dictators, Post commented that their leadership style is based on their personality disorders, they’re called the “big six”: sadistic, paranoid, antisocial, narcissistic, schizoid, and schizotypal, along with a psychotic thought process Besides personality disorders these dictators successfully and tightly control the flow of information getting to their followers. “Controlling information and controlling dissent are part of what goes into maintaining a totalitarian state.” -Post So the leadership style of dictatorship is a combination of fear, manipulation, and knowledge of society’s needfulness of survival and using it against their followers to gain more control and power..also known as AUTHORITARIANISM.
After taking the Strengths Finder Assessment, I was able to see and recognize how my strengths play apart in my life. Although on the daily level I do not see every one of them being used aggressively or on a large scale, but I do see how I subconsciously use these on a smaller scale every single day. From meeting new people everyday on campus, to having to solve minor problems that occur in my day, I am able to put each of my strengths to the test.
A time in which I have had to use my strengths in a leadership position would definitely be my senior year of high school as the Head Cheerleader. COMMUNICATION is a HUGE deal within the squad and it was important that I was able to speak my mind and communicate between the girls and our sponsor. I needed to be able to clearly explain and bring my ideas to life in order to accomplish our common goals. IDEATION also came into play for the squad, especially during our homecoming week. I needed to have the creativity and originality to come up with the theme and activities of the week as well as be mature enough to see everyone else’s take on the event. Being the head cheerleader meant that I needed to take others perspectives into thought in order to be a good leader. I was made sure that all ideas were taken into consideration before making a final decision. STRATEGIZING an entire squad can be hectic at times, but as it being one of my strengths I was able to take the challenges that came against the squad and sort through the clutter. I found alternate options for any complications and had to be creative in order to find the best routes to move us forward as a squad. ADAPTABILITY goes hand in hand with the strategic element. While strategizing challenges that arose, I was able to sort through the clutter and adapt at a moments notice to ensure that everything would run smoothly. I knew that being in certain environments with the squad would bring up complications and the future was never fixed. Knowing that I had to take the squads future one choice at a time helped me to become the leader I am. WOO, the woo aspect of cheerleading is the basis of any leadership position. If I was not able to “win others over,” I would not have been the head cheerleader. Bringing energy to a social situation is important as a leader but definitely as a cheerleader, our soul purpose is to bring energy to large crowds. Along with bringing energy to social situations and crowds, I was able to bring energy to others, especially to draw the squad out of their shells and bring them together as one.
Totally a candid…right?
definitely not an ex boyfriend…
8 years of tryouts :))
*insert my high school catch phrase* “WINNER WINNER, CHICKEN DINNER”
SQUAD GOALS amirite?
Galveston, TX…isn’t it BEAUTIFUL?!?
“yeah, I babysit”
yeah, well call me when you’ve taken care of over a 100 small screaming people :)) …but I honestly LOVE it!! <3
FOOTBALL SWEETHEART
Fun Fact: this guy actually fractured my wrist the night before graduation.
*I’m on the left*
POP QUIZ (out of state students only)
What are those ribbons hanging from our jerseys called??
MY LAST GAME *insert crying emoji*
Leadership has many different definitions. Over the decades the meaning of leadership has changed and evolved to fit the society’s needs of the time. The classic textbook definition of leadership is the position one has as a leader of a group with the power to lead other people. While that definition may be correct, my view of leadership is slightly more in depth. Leadership is an influence. The ability to influence followers to accomplish a common goal in life. Leadership is a solution. The ability to see a problem and to become the solution for the situation. Leadership is confidence. The ability to have confidence in oneself to make appropriate decisions in order to accomplish the common goal. Leadership is open-mindedness. The ability to take into account other people’s ideas and to be receptive to different outlooks. Leadership is giving. The ability to give and serve others the materials they need in order to succeed at the task that has been asked of them. Leadership is empathetic. The ability to understand and show empathy towards others and make connections with their followers. Leadership is a language. The ability to translate ideas and visions into a reality. Leadership is an opportunity. The opportunity to become a leader.
