What Is Leadership? | Opportunity Hunters | Career Advice for Youth
Leadership is an interactive conversation that pulls people toward becoming comfortable with the language of personal responsibility and commitment. Leadership is not just for people at the top. Everyone can learn to lead by discovering the power that lies within each...
How to Be a True Leader | Opportunity Hunters | Career Advice for Youth
True leaders are mentors with a servant's heart. These are not just pretty words to fill out space. If you are NOT a true servant to others, with a true passion for helping people, you won't ever be a true leader in the real sense of term. You may be doing well and...
Leadership Myths and Demons | Opportunity Hunters | Career Advice for Youth
We think we understand leaders and leadership. And I suppose to some extent we do. But we also work with a lot of leadership mythology-curious ideas developed over time like urban legends-and demons-either blaming leaders for evil in the world or looking upon...
Transformational Leadership Theory – The 4 Key Components in Leading Change & Managing Change | Opportunity Hunters | Career Advice for Youth
Transformational leadership theory is all about leadership that creates positive change in the followers whereby they take care of each other's interests and act in the interests of the group as a whole. James MacGregor Burns first brought the concept of...
What’s Next? A Guide for International Development Students (Part Two)
The Value of Overseas Experience With more and more students graduating each year with undergraduate degrees, it is increasingly important to set oneself apart from the pack. International experience, either through study abroad, an internship or co-op, is one...
What’s Next? A Guide for International Development Students in Canada (Part One)
It’s hard to imagine how many pages of writing and hours of debate have gone into trying to define what exactly “international development” is. It’s a concept that is perpetually contested, redefined, co-opted and venerated. While we may never find a good definition...