How does leadership play a role in your internship? Are you able to demonstrate any leadership skills? How do your co-workers or supervisor display leadership capabilities?
This is a great internship because I get the chance to demonstrate my leadership abilities. I am definitely not running errands, making coffee, or collating copies. I am given projects to work on, and I must decide how to approach them and who I need to contact to get information. I work independently a lot, and I must be self-directed and self-motivated.
Last week, the other intern Patricia and I led a meeting to discuss communications and messaging for the city's new smaller trash container size. We presented our ideas and had a great discussion with several of our co-workers about different ways to explain and promote the new program to the public. Next Monday, we will present these ideas to the Assistant Public Works Director at a Solid Waste meeting.
My supervisor Lori demonstrates leadership capabilities in her job by guiding Patricia and I in our internship program. She supervises several other of my co-workers and is responsible for budgets and contracts. She has a very friendly and supportive leadership style, and so I really enjoy working for her.
It's great to have people that you enjoy working with and can learn a lot from! It makes the internship experience so much more rewarding!
ReplyDeleteHi, Megan~~I'm so glad you learn a lot from this great internship.You could choose the field that you are interested in and do a lot of actual practice during the internship. Keep it up!
ReplyDeleteThat's really cool that you get to work so independently and its good to hear your not running around doing someone's errands. It sounds like your having a good experience and I hope that continues.
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