Leadership Experience

The first part of any group project is defining the project; I settled on giving food to the homeless, and set about building the group that would accomplish this. I was vague in determining what type of food since I was not sure at this point what the group itself would decide on and I did not want to be perceived as dictating the entire project. Instead, I felt that the group members would get more out of the project if they contributed ideas and suggestions along the way since this would enhance their own sense of participation in the project. In this way, the distribution project would be "ours," not "mine," even though I originated the idea.

Once I had the project in mind, I set out to find eight other people to participate. I approached 10 friends; nine of these agreed that this was a good idea and wanted to participate. I was unable to determine exactly why the tenth was not interested, but saw no reason to push someone into this project if they were not in agreement with it. Each of the participants knew me well; some knew other members of the group. There were two participants who knew only me and no other members. All of us are students.

As I spoke with the participants to talk about the idea, I also talked with them about their schedules, and had each give me several dates and times when they would be available to do this. In addition to actually distributing the food, we would have to purchase it and, if we were making it ourselves, prepare it as well

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hes) and containers to carry them. Those of us with access to ice chests went and brought them while the two others went to the store. The rest of us stayed at my home and cleared space in the kitchen to make the sandwiches. When the store volunteers returned, we set up an assembly line type procedure since it takes longer to make a sandwich than it does to wrap it. By separating all of the ingredients, each "station" could make an entire sandwich and put it aside to be wrapped. The "wrappers" then picked up the completed sandwiches, placed them on the plastic, cut them in half and sealed them, putting the entire package into one of the ice chests. At the end of the session, we had made 250 sandwiches (not including a few which were consumed by the work crew). We ran out of tomatoes and lettuce first (the two store volunteers had admitted they had trouble estimating how much would be needed), but we continued making sandwiches without these additions. We stopped when we ran out of lunch meat. It was early evening when we finished, so we left the sandwiches in the ice chests (each of the four ice chests held approximately the same number of sandwiches) and agreed to meet again the next day to distribute the food. Late Sun

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