Relationships

Being in a small organization, it makes it easy to know something personal about EVERY member. I know from experience that letting people know you better leads them to trust and respect you more. When I went in for my interview, I told something very personal. Being that open with people made them really trust me since I had trusted them with something so personal. When you know something personal about your leader it makes them more human and more like a real person. You give trust respect when you are given it. If someone trusts and respects you enough to tell a very personal story you are automatically touched and connected with them. Because we are so small their isn't anyone who isn't in a leadership position. But there are certian times when one person is in charge of a particular thing and we all need to follow them. In these moments, although someone is "the boss" we all are more of a team. Thats one of the nice things about being in a smaller organization, we are a group. Last semester we went through a lot. We had differing opinions which resulted in a lot of butting heads but we made it through a stronger group. Though we saw things in a different way we all wanted to better our organization which ended up bringing us together in the end.