In today’s final simulation, titled “Tip of the Iceberg”, I learned the impact of language barriers when working on a team. In this simulation, I was placed on a team with three other members and we were each given a unique role— either CEO, Director of Community Outreach (COM), Finance Director (FIN), or Director of…
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LIGC Blog Post 7 – Global Leadership
Today, we looked at leadership and analyzed it with a global lens. Leadership in a global context means being aware of cultural differences and the obstacles that accompany them while actively using methods to triumph over them. It means being able to lead beyond the borders of your own culture, but rather on a global…
LIGC Blog Post #6 – The Common Information Effect
Friday’s simulation, titled “Climbing Mount Everest”, put our decision-making and team leadership skills to the test. In this simulation, I was placed on a team with four other people and we were each given a unique role. There was a team leader, an environmentalist, a photographer, a physician, and a marathoner. Personally, my role was…
LIGC Blog Post 5 – Power and Influence
Today’s simulation, titled “Power and Influence”, gave us the opportunity to lead organization-wide strategic change for the fictitious sunglasses company, Spectrum Sunglass. The main objective was to gain support for a sustainability initiative. I experienced how when a leader suggests change, they may be met with resistance. I realized this when I noticed some colleagues…
LIGC Blog Post 4 – Adaptive Leadership
Today’s simulation, titled “Patient Zero”, immersed our team within the context of a zombie apocalypse and required us to make a series of five increasingly difficult decisions. The event I personally found to be the hardest to grapple with was Event 3. To give a brief summary, Event 3 required us to decide whether or…
LIGC Blog Post 3 – Cognitive Bias
In today’s simulation titled “Judgement in a Crisis”, I was deemed Project Manager of a medical device manufacturing company called Matterhorn Health. The crisis that I had to handle in the simulation was concerning the high inaccuracy rates of GlucoGauge, Matterhorn Health’s new glucose blood monitoring device. I had to make a variety of decisions…
LIGC Blog Entry #2 – My View Of Leadership
What comes to mind when I think of leadership is reaching a common goal or a desired outcome through collaboration, communication, and delegation. Some instances where I have witnessed these three elements of effective leadership was through the service fraternity I am involved with called Alpha Phi Omega. As Alpha Phi Omega members, we are…
LIGC First Blog Post Introduction
My name is Regina, and I am a rising junior at the University of Pittsburgh. I am a Biological Sciences major on the pre-med track with minors in History, Chemistry, and Religious Studies. I am also on track to receive the Conceptual Foundations of Medicine certificate. I was born in Brooklyn, New York and raised…