Week 3, ISLE, and MTBI

Hello World,

This week was a jam packed one on top of class this week for Hixson, we had a leadership session on friday, and ISLE on saturday.  So we have lots of stuff to talk about this week.

Let's start with class!  Class was extremely interesting this week since we spent the majority of the time talking about MTBI results.  I was quite skeptical of MTBI after taking the quiz "choose the word that stands out to you" to me did not seem like a efficient way to test someone since to me it seems like they are petty useless choices. But, Debra proved my thoughts wrong tuesday in class, my results seemed very much like me and the people around me in the individual groups were a lot like me.  Now we weren't the same on every level, but on the little levels we were split into were very accurate.  I believe taking this test is important because it is important to know and understand yourself if you are supposed to lead fellow students.

This is my second year attending ISLE, I went last year for my fraternity for the entire time rather than just a couple sessions this year.  I believe ISLE does a great job of introducing  students to large variety of leadership topics which can jumpstart their interest in leadership activities.

This year I went to a session on entreprenuership and one on stress management for leaders.  The entreprenuership session was led by one of my old professors and I was interested to see if he changed any of the topics from class for ISLE, he did not.  In this session we talked about leadership skills and what it takes to be an entreprenuer.  For those students who are going into majors that will cause them to have their own business someday it was an extremely useful session.

My last session was stress relief for leaders.  This session was good because the speaker was very interesting.  One thing that really opened my eyes was we did a activity were we marked our stress relief habits and pinpointed which were good and which were bad.  It really made me think about my own habits and if I should change them.

So although it was a busy week I believe i got a lot of good out of all of these sessions and learned lots about myself and my leadership style.