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## Intro....Leadership Isn’t Just About Titles [00:00] Hello everyone. Welcome. We'll get started in just a few seconds. All right, welcome to our webinar on leadership is not just a title. How to show your impact in your applications. Uh for today, what we're going to be focusing on is what colleges actually look for when we think about leadership. Um the three ways to show leadership without a title, three biggest mistakes students make, and writing powerful descriptions. Uh something to consider is that leadership roles are still very much important, right? But it's more so of a matter of it's not the end all be all, meaning that you don't necessarily always need to aim for the president or vice president role within your uh club. Um but what it does offer though for those particular titles is that it gives you ability to have leverage and be able to uh create an impact. So we'll talk about a little bit more about that and specifically what is it that you can do within the leadership role or even without that leadership title itself. Uh for quick housekeeping if you don't mind just drop your high school to graduation year in the chat. Kind of curious about who else is here in the room with me. And also if you have any questions ## What Colleges Really Look for in Leaders [02:00] throughout this uh webinar feel free to drop in a Q&A and of course replay notes will always be available. Uh quick background on myself if this is your first time meeting me. I'm Coach Victor with Eagle. And for me, uh I used to work at the admissions office at UC Berkeley as outreach coordinator and getting to graduate school instructor. Uh where I went to different high schools to teach about the college admissions process and also I taught a whole class about uh starting your grad school apps and being able to get in. Also a fun fact for myself uh I did uh work at the San Francisco Unified School District along with other uh education technology places and nonprofits and furthermore I was a UC Berkeley full ride scholar uh for undergrad and graduate school. So that being said uh leadership has was definitely something that I definitely participated in and I'll share a little bit tidbits of how I was able to show that impact uh throughout this webinar as well. So, first off, let's start talking about what colleges actually look for. Okay, when it comes to um people's thought about leadership, people tend to think that you need to be a club president to show leadership. Now, what is it? Well, like why is uh a title important anyways? Like titles do actually do ma they do they do matter, right? Uh titles give you leverage, access to more opportunity and also there is a bit of um kind of assumptions uh with titles that are associated with it. But underneath the titles what they really care about is are you one able to take initiative or starting something new. Uh what this kind of uh demonstrates to is like the activities help us know that uh you don't necessarily need to wait until college to start learning about your particular major or start learning about your interests. Taking initiative means that you're doing it now. You don't necessarily need to wait till somebody actually gives you something to be able to work with. So again the what you want to try to demonstrate here is that um you don't have to wait for someone to create that opportunity for you. Secondly is the problem solving aspect. Uh are you able to uh think critically and be able to be a problem solver? Right? Uh because in the world there's tons of problems, tons of situations where we need leaders to step up and to be able to do something about the situation. And there's a sense of um kind of uh agency and also altruism in this case, right? About being able to uh ## How to Show Initiative Without a Role [04:30] solve problems not just for yourself but also for others. And I guess that kind of goes into the next part about making a positive impact. Uh what these colleges want to know is that if we were to accept you into our university, would you be able to affect those around you and also uh contribute towards our campus climate? And that's why the leadership aspect is really important because they would expect that if you were to take a step up, you were to volunteer for these roles or participate in these clubs, you would participate in the community. So what they want to understand is will you uh not just study all day in your dorm or in your uh in your own residence, but more so will you actually take the time to be able to think about how can you positively influence other people? Uh furthermore, collaborating with others, right? Are you someone that's easy to work with? Because uh you don't want to go into university full of people that are just not willing to work with others. The whole point of the activities also is to you know demonstrate your social skills that you are willing to collaborate, willing to work with others because when you're part of a campus climate, you're going to be working with tons of diverse people. People that you uh don't really understand their background. You might have a different demographic background such as your race, ethnicity, gender, and so forth. And also you probably grew up in a different location. They want to know that can you live cohabitally with each other and can you create a cohesive community amongst each other. And lastly demonstrating growth and reflection. What um this really is important. It's it's about your why, right? Like what did you gain from the experience? Why is it so important to you? Because we don't do activities just for the sake of doing it. We don't do it just because it feels good, but because there is a particular deeper meaning in everything that we we do. So that's that's really important to be able to demonstrate that uh maturity, that kind of intellectual curiosity and that you are able to learn from these moments and that it influences what you want to do from here. Typically, right, your activities that you're doing right now has taught you something. It taught you about something about yourself, about what you're interested in or about what you want to do later on in your college and career. And so you want to be able to articulate that within your application process. So the let's talk about the ways to be able to show leadership without a title. And again just to kind of um make it very clear, right? Title is uh important but not necessary. Meaning like I don't want you to take away from this webinar that you shouldn't like try to step up. You shouldn't try to like take on those roles for those clubs. but more so like it's still totally possible to demonstrate all these characteristics without a title. And the title all it does is just it gives you leverage to be able to do so because if you were technically a president of some kind of club you have more agency autonomy and people probably voted you in into that particular role because they believe in you. So in a way titles are like a bit of like a social proof that they um that your community has voted you in or wants you to be in that role. Yet at the same time know that uh titles don't mean everything because almost anybody can come up with a title. But if you can't so if you can't talk about what what you actually did within your title then it means nothing. uh if you you were to compare two students, let's say one person was like a president of a club, but another was just a member, but the member was clearly able to articulate their impact, their problem solving, their initiative, all those things. That will look more effective than someone who just said, "I was a president of this club and they can't speak to what they did because in ways people are probably just making it up then." So again, title is important but not necessary and uh so I don't want you to ## Examples of Real Student Impact [08:15] get the wrong idea of not to try to uh take that next step. But there are three ways to show uh leadership without a title. One is the initiator. Okay, the initiator is somebody who is willing to start something that no one else is willing or brave enough to do. So for example, Sophia noticed her school lacked resources for mental health. She organized a mental health awareness week and partnered with counselors to lead sessions. It became an annual event. So what Sophia did here, right, was that she identified an issue that was pertinent to her community, right? This is kind of part of the problem solving aspect as well, but um what's important is that she was doing it for a particular reason and also she noticed that they were lacking a particular solution or program. So essentially what she did was that Sophia created something from scratch, right? She came up with the ideas that no one else thought about or was brave enough to initiate. And what's also what's great about here that she did was that she worked with counselors. So, it's not just a matter of I'm going to do this by myself, but she collaborated with other uh staff members to uh to create something that is longlasting because she created something that became an annual event. That means that there is an impact, a long-term impact that is uh going to stay with that community for a long time. And another kind of example, right, is like I always bring this example like what if you were to organize like a beach cleanup. Okay, usually beach cleanups, they're great and all that you're cleaning up the environment, but the thing is that beach cleanup is that one day event. The goal is to be able to show that you're creating a systemic impact or a long-term impact. And so like if I were to remove you from the picture, would that event would that impact still exist? And so by being able to create an annual event with her especially staff members that creates some longevity in there and this is super important because uh Sophia is not just impacting her classmates at that particular year but she's impacting the future years uh above her um that comes into that school. And so that is what the universities are looking for. Can you create a long-term systemic impact and you're not just doing a one-off kind of event here as well. All right. Next thing is the problem solver. So this was kind of embedded in the last one, but uh let's dig into the specific example. So Alex found his uh robotics club had poor attendance. He redesigned the club's meeting format, created social media account, and increased attendance by 60%. Okay. Similarly to the last one, Alex found uh identified a problem, right? And I would say uh it might be even more powerful if we can talk about why attendance is important. So uh insert why attendance is important. for example, right? Like um uh attendance is necessary to uh really it really in in uh details like is this club uh really impactful for students or do do students actually find this valuable or that uh people are able to really take advantage of this opportunity, right? And so if you're able to talk a little bit more about why was this attendance important to you or important to the club itself, then that can kind of amplify the way that you talk about this. And then furthermore, when he talks about redesigning um the club meeting format, create a social media account, right? That shows uh demonstrates like creativity to uh to resolve this particular problem. If he wanted to also amplify this, right? And let's say he was to write this in a personal insight question or a personal statement. Another way to amplify this is to talk about why did you decide to redesign the meeting format or create a med social media account. The importance of that right is because in ways you can solve this problem of attendance in so many ways, right? You don't necessarily have to create a social media account or do the meeting format. You could also do um active recruitment. You can tell everyone to bring one friend. You can uh post flyers around campus, right? And if you were to transform this not just into an activity statement put to write into a personal statement or sorry not just an activity like description but into a personal statement you can go in a little bit deeper about how like how did ## How to Write Powerful Descriptions with Clear Results [13:00] you come to the conclusion that these specific things were the most powerful uh strategies to use and then from there you can be able to talk about the impact and the impact being increase attendance by 60%. And if you want to take this again a little bit further, right, what um what uh was the impact due to the attendance? The goal isn't necessarily just to increase attendance. the goal for attendance is for like increasing retention or to increase the amount of uh reach around the school that you're able to show that you have some type of impact that more students are being exposed to robotics or something of that sort. When you dig in a little bit deeper about why each of these things are so important, it really shows a sense of critical thinking and maturity that you're not just doing it for the sake of doing it because it looks good for a college application, but you're doing it because you understand that there is a deeper meaning behind everything. And so these are the potential areas that one can actually expand much further within the personal statements. All right, let's go. Last one is the connector. Okay. So, the connector is someone who is able to bring community or create community together. So, Anita didn't lead a club, but she brought together classmates and local nonprofits to start a weekend volunteer program leading to over 300 hours of community service. So, this is kind of very similar to what we saw from the um the initiator, right? Because it looks like the initiation here was to be able to bring together classmates and local nonprofits. So I would say like you know this demonstrates uh initiation and also the uh sheer number of people if you wanted to kind of enhance this I would say to try to include the number of uh classmates and nonprofits so that way you can kind of quantify here and to start a weekend volunteer program. Again, if you were to move this into like a personal statement, the importance is like why what is the problem you're trying to solve for? And leading to over 300 hours of community service, which is great, but also again to answer like why was this community service important? I can guarantee you that so many students are doing volunteer service, right? and they think that just having volunteer hours is what will lead them to getting admitted into these schools. That is not the case. Yes, hours are important, but that is just one part of the picture. The most important understanding is why is this community service? Why is participating in these things so important to the community? Because you don't want people to just do things because it feels good or it looks good, but they're doing it because it actually matters. That's why I mentioned in this last example, why is attendance so important? Because there are so many things that you could focus on. There's so many things that you could do, but you decided to focus on this one particular metric was the attendance. In this case, uh this student Nina was trying to focus on community service. And so if you can expand on why did you decide to do this particular community service as opposed to all the other things that you could have done instead, right? that shows that you are um really valuing your time and valuing uh the quality of the work ## The 3 C’s Framework....Challenge, Contribution, Change [16:30] that you produce. And so for here, right, the connector what it does is it's also able to um uh bring people together to uh act upon a common cause, right? And this is essentially a little bit like sales and recruitment in a way, right? Uh these skills are important because in order to uh convince people to participate in community service or in a common cause, you have to be able to be persuasive and be able to demonstrate that you can get people to uh do something that they initially weren't inclined to do. And by you being able to demonstrate those sales and recruitment skills, you are showing that you have a ability to positively influence others around you. All right. So these are again the kind of three major ways that you could be able to do it. Uh if you kind of notice right each of these did have like an overlap with each other but and so in ways right you don't want to just do one of these. You want to do all three of them if you can into your um into your activities. And again, if you wanted to expand this and put it into a PIQ or to a personal insight question or personal statement, this is ways that you can be able to elaborate on it by talking about the why. And uh pro tip too, at the very end of every single personal statement, you always want to connect it to connect it to your future, whether that be what you want to study, accomplish, or achieve. um uh in your uh careers or college. Okay. So if you can connect what did this teach you about like what kind of person that you want to be like for example maybe that you will always want to be of in service of other people or in for particular communities. you can uh you can you can kind of demonstrate that like for example for myself uh when I talked about like a lot of my community service way back in the day, I would always talk about how it was so important for me to be able to come back to my old my city which is East San Jose to be able to give back to the community in some type of uh capacity and by going to college I will be able to learn this particular new experience or learn this new skill that will help me contribute back to my community. So again, your your your goal is to connect your learnings. What did each of your activities teach you about yourself? And then what is it that you're going to learn in college? And how would that lead how all of that lead to you being able to execute on your future goals or your core values? All right, so let's go next section, which is the three biggest mistakes uh students make. Okay, one is listing titles without explaining what they did. All right, this is a pretty common one that we've seen a lot of times. So, vice president of the environmental club. Okay, cool. So, like what did you actually do? So, um again, this is where titles can be very misleading, right? Like it's great that you're vice president. Cool. Uh now, what did you actually do uh within that role? And so a stronger way to rewrite it is led weekly cleanup events and organized Earth Day campaign that brought 200 plus students together to reduce carbon emission. Right? What I like here is that there was a strong action verb which is led weekly uh cleanup events and organized Earth Day ## Avoiding the Biggest Mistakes in Your Activity List [20:00] campaign. What I love is that this right here is a recurring kind of activity. This like shows that it's not just a one-off thing. It's something that is ongoing. organize Earth Day campaign. Okay, campaigns are huge because campaigns are about trying to address a particular issue. So this shows like a um like a problem solving. This shows initiation, right? And that brought 200 students together. So the number of people so this is the connector, right? So this is connector. This is uh the problem solving and this is the initiation here and then to reduce carbon emission. This is the why. Okay. And that's why this is really important. Of course, uh if there was more uh words uh allowed in the uh common app, uh you'd be able to write a lot more if you could expand onto it, right? than being able to demonstrate even more about what was the result of it. Like if you can quantify the carbon emission, I mean that's kind of really difficult to be quite honest. Um but like aside from being able to connect people together, right? That is an input. What was the actual uh impact? Yes, reduce carbon emission but like is there a way to quantify the impact of like um establishing like maybe you can say that you have uh kind of institutionalize a weekly cleanup event at the school that is going to be longlasting. Maybe you can talk about how um I don't know there was a reduction of like reported litter in a particular like uh between certain weeks or something like that or uh or maybe you did a survey where people like were to be able to talk about how much they care cared about the environment and that you increase the score where people actually start caring now. So if you can somehow like quantify the impact right so providing the y and impact and uh calculating the impact right that's going to be a way to make it more powerful. Okay, next part is big verbs like helped, led or was responsible for actually. Okay, sorry. Uh, so they led was not a strong verb. Maybe in reality this could have been a much more I would say kind it could be initiated, right? So maybe instead of lead I would probably would have done initiated and format text strikeout, right? So, helped LED was responsible for uh so strongerware was like Stronger Word is like spearheaded fundraiser campaign that raised $1,200 for food shelter that uh oh uh uh feeds unhoused families by organizing bake sales and community outreach. So, what's great here is that this is the most common word that almost every single student uses. I swear like out of all the activities I've read every single year and also even for the the common applications and the personal statements, helped is like so common cuz helped can mean so many things. So try to be as specific as possible. Spearheaded means like you're kind of taking initiative. It could be like I don't know uh if you just Google like a whole bunch of like strong action verbs instead of helped, you could probably ## How to Build and Track Your Leadership Journey [23:30] find one that works a lot better. So just be careful about your like specific wording that you're using. You want to show that you're not passive, but you're active. And spearheading is an active kind of verb here. So, spearheaded fundraiser campaign that raised $1,200, right? This is like the quantifying the impact here, which is great for local shelter. Uh, so this is the the good part. Uh, for local shelter that feeds unhoused families, right? So, this is talking about um like the particular group that you're trying to serve or the kind of population. It's kind of inferred, all right, that unhoused folks have certain challenges or certain issues. So, just be aware that if you are trying to support a community like let's say like an ethnic community or whatever you identify with, uh it's not going to be very clear about what exactly um do they need or need help with. Like unhoused folks makes a lot more sense just because like generally people have a clear understanding about the circumstances that unhoused families like do face. And so uh that this makes it very easy to talk about. But if you're trying to talk about a particular group of people like let's say kids or teenagers for example, you want to be more specific about what their actual challenges or problems are. So um I'll just put a like a kind of note here that uh make sure it is clear about the specific problem or challenge they are having. And then by organizing big sales and community outreach. Okay, this is great, right? And then maybe if I would expand on this, right? Uh organizing big sales makes sense. Community outreach, right, is kind of vague, I would say. So if I could, I would expand. Maybe um community outreach can be like doortodoor knocking or it could be like doing social media campaigns or something of that sort. Um when you use the word community and use the word outreach, these two words are just large words that has so much interpretation. So try to be uh be more specific in terms of your verbiage, right? Okay. Uh next one is the number three of not showing results or change which is pretty straightforward, right? So tutored students. Okay. Obviously, yes. Like you're helping, right? Uh for every single action, there is always a reaction. Uh so the reaction here is that for this student, it tutor five classmates weekly, helping three improve their grades from C to an A in algebra. That's awesome. So, uh they quantified the number of people they helped. They quantified also the duration of how frequent this happened. and helping three people improve their grades from C to A in algebra. Okay, so this uh shows that they already had an issue. There was already implied issue uh that they had low grades and getting to A was the result. So uh something that you can also expand on this even further is how did you tutor them, right? Cuz like tutoring, yes, it can mean like one-on-one tutoring, right? you're teaching. Um, but like there's so many tutors out there. Like what's your unique way of tutoring? Was it that you facilitated a weekly time where after school y'all met at one particular location? Maybe it was like you organized like uh tutoring sessions with like like you know snacks and um and refreshments uh to make the uh tutoring more engaging and motivating for people. So there is a probably a reason why these students had a C in the first place and you want to show that you're tackling the root problem here. So let's just say like these students they have a C because they didn't have strong study habits, right? So maybe the way that you tutored was like you tutored not just on the um the material itself, but maybe you also tutored on like uh like how to build stronger study habits or student like skill sets that other students do not typically have. And that shows that you have a clear understanding of what is their issue, right? like what was the root issue behind their low grades. So this is showing like again the kind of maturity here, right? That you're not just doing things on face value, but you have a deep understanding of problem solving skills here that uh the grades are just a symptom, right? Uh but there is a particular root cause behind the symptom. So the C right here is the symptom or the result of the root cause and really right uh problem solving in a in a way is like root cause analysis. Why is it that they are experiencing these seas in the first place? And why did you decide to tutor them in your particular way to address that root issue? Other ways think if you think about it, right? It can not might not just be study skills, but maybe it could be a mindset issue. Maybe they just didn't believe in themselves. Maybe they had a fixed mindset. So maybe it's not just tutoring, but you coach them. you coach them to believe in themselves and uh and that's that's where like you're able to show that you have a unique way of tutoring or helping these like students here. Okay. So let's talk about how to write um powerful descriptions and essays. So I'm going to introduce the 3C pre framework and uh try to make this a little bit easier to understand. I used to uh if you were in my other webinars we talked about SAR right situation action result very similarly here but it makes it a little bit easier to be able to remember. So there is challenge contribution and change right challenge what problem or gap did you notice our school's recycling program has stopped and no one knew why. Okay, this is an example of like a way to identify that particular problem. If you wanted to expand on this further, right, maybe consider right about um how uh or sorry, what was the repercussions of the of the school recycling program uh program being stopped? What uh how did you know this was a an important issue? You want to demonstrate to the readers that you have a deep understanding like this is an issue and that you are empowered to address this issue because you know how important it is. Everyone is solving for so many different things, right? There's so many things that everyone could be doing with their time, but you decided to take your time to focus on this one issue. Why did you decide to do that issue? Right? And usually it's because you're probably passionate about that particular challenge that you want to address. So this is where you demonstrate it. You demonstrate the passion that you have to fix this particular um issue and you want to describe like why does it matter to you so much and this is the self-awareness and and the maturity that you're able to show. Second is the contribution. What did you do to address it? So, you met with the principal, restarted the club, and create an incentive system to increase participation. Awesome. Right. What I love here, right, it's that they're meeting with someone that's a staff member, right? Collaboration, right, is a important thing here. We started the club, that's initiation, and created an incentive system, problem solving. All right. So again, this is a way to be able to show the three different point points that we talked about before and um to increase participation. So again, the way that you would be able to take this a little bit further is why did you decide to do these particular actions? Like for example um you knew that in order to uh initiate this school recycle program you need the collaboration of leadership from people at the school. You know that people will listen to the principal and so you decided to collaborate with them because they are an important stakeholder in this process. Uh you restarted the club because you knew that you needed to create like a systemic uh impact where if you were to like be gone next year because you're gone to college that there needs to be something or some group that's still trying to maintain this particular uh system here. And lastly is create an incentive uh system. uh how did you know that there was a incentive system that would work right? Were you able to like kind of conduct focus groups, talk to other students, be able to understand like how did you know like the incentive system would actually work? Did you do some research? So being able to show your critical lens here is really key. uh your so the contribution here it shows like your uh characteristics on how you attempt to solve problems and demonstrates uh your problem solving skills. I think I just repeated myself in two different ways but you all get my point here. Uh and the last point is the change. What happened as a result? So participation rose from 10 to 50 students in two months and our school diverted 300 lb of waste from the landfill. Amazing. Okay, so 10 to 50 students in two months, right? That seems pretty large, right? I I really appreciate the duration that is expressed here and also the number of sheer students. That is like a great way to be able to describe that um you had a large impact in a short amount of time. And our schools diverted 300 lb of waste from the landfill. I'm not sure about you, but 300 lb of weight sounds pretty darn large. So, I would say like this is a great way to quantify that. And so, a way to um also amplify this is to demonstrate like uh what was the kind of the status quo in a way like uh being able to understand um what is typical uh waste that is expected from from the landfill. So for example, right diverted 300 lb of land uh pounds of waste, right? Out of how many is there? Like is there a denominator or typical amount of waste, right? Because in a way that's like baselining and this shows a lot of uh if you're able to baseline and be able to show like there was an improvement, it's very similar to the 10 to 50 students. Uh 300 lb sounds like a lot, but how do you put it in perspective? Uh is there typically like a,000 pounds of waste? Does that mean that you reduce the waste by 30%. That sounds pretty large, right? Uh even the 10 to 50 students, I mean given like let's just assume that your school was a small school as well. uh it's possible that you can put into perspective about how your school is small and like you're already capturing about like 20% of the population to participate in this club or something. So being able to uh put the numbers in perspective to help readers understand what is large or small impact. Right. Awesome. Okay. So let's go into uh examples here to like rewrite the activity section. So let's let's exercise our uh ability to write these activities better. Uh so that way if especially if you're a junior right now, you're probably trying to write your statements right now. So before worked at a food bank. Okay, what does working mean? What did you actually do? What's the point of the food bank? So organized monthly food drives distributing over 2,000 meals and coordinating 15 volunteers. Awesome. So uh a way to kind of strengthen this right is organize monthly food drives u that does what right there's an assumption here that you know food drives will give to the community but like where does it lead to like does it go to unhoused folks does it go to low-income families how many families did you help right so uh so being able to like uh identify like who was the audience um that you were trying to impact, right? Distributing over 2,000 meals and coordinating 15 volunteers. Awesome. So, that sounds like a lot. And uh maybe to also put in perspective, right? Were you able to increase like the number of like meals like compared to what like last year like maybe there was like only 1,000 meals or maybe 1500 meals or something like that. If you can be able to do that, that shows that you not only just participated and organized a food event, but you made it better, right? So, if you can show the change in terms of the output, that shows even like a greater impact. And coordinating 15 volunteers, awesome. And maybe you can put a little bit um what does coordinating volunteers actually mean? Right? So, get more specific here. So for example, it could be that you were the volunteer coordinator coordinator and you like allocated jobs, you managed them. Uh this shows leadership skills. So the thing about these action verbs is that there's so much potential to show uh more well-roundedness and more specific skill sets that you offer to the university. So get very specific as much as you can and then uh of course always talk about the why and try to tie it back to the um reason why you're even working at this food bank in the first place. All right. So let's just say all right you uh want to get started today. You don't necessarily uh know where to get started. Okay. Uh this is for and even if you wanted to take your leadership skills to the next level. The first question to ask yourself is what problems do you see in your school or community? Right? Again, this goes down to problem solving and also what do you actually care about? I would say like yes, volunteer service is very important for admissions, but like be real about like what you actually care about. And if you're not a person that's really into community service, then at least think about what do you like doing, right? And how can you share that impact with other people? So um let's just say like if you are not inclined to be a ser like of service of others uh then at least think about like what do you enjoy and how might you share that enjoyment with other people. Other things is uh within problems in the community is just like what do you hear right from others? Do you notice your peers are complaining about something? Do you notice that uh a particular community that you are a part of is particularly frustrated about something? Don't do things just for the sake of trying to look good for leadership. Do things because there is something that's worth solving, right? uh when it comes to even like the workforce and thinking about like all these startups and companies that are created if you didn't know so many startups uh there's a reason they're called startups because they create a company to solve for a particular issue and then a lot of these companies end up like being unsuccessful and they fail and usually it's because there's not enough demand as in like people are not willing to purchase the services or the goods that they produce because they don't have Um they call it product market fit. That's a fancy word to say that it's not actually solving for a problem. Okay, you have to be so able to solve for a problem to really matter. Next, what is one small step that you can take to solve it? Okay, you don't have to think about like a massive campaign. You don't have to think about what can I do to transform everything. The goal here is uh just get motivated. Just start small. So small steps equals small results. Right? Can small results lead to more motivation? More motivation leads to higher impact. Right? So what I mean by there is build momentum. If you start small, you can at least be able to take it piece by piece and then as you're building that momentum, bring others along with you. Right? You can't make a large impact by doing it by yourself. The whole point of this leadership, right, isn't about trying to be the one that is able to accomplish everything. You are one that empowers, inspires, motivates other people to be able to participate in this particular impact. And the last piece, how can you track your results or document your growth? Right? Always, always, always uh update your sheet or resume with your results, right? uh you and maybe if you uh and also another consideration, right? Update your LinkedIn if you don't have one already because LinkedIn is a great place to be able to document all these things and you don't want to lose track of your impact because imagine this like let's say you're writing your common application or your personal statements. You're working in an activity section and you're trying to think about the impact that you made back in ninth grade. And then you're trying to be able to think like, "Oh, okay. I remember doing this club, but I didn't track or measure anything." And then you end up finding out that you don't you can't put down any results or that you have to make up some number. You don't want to do that. So, uh, so keep track. Think about this. Think think the long term, right? Always document your impact for future records. And who knows, you might even use it for your resume for like uh for applying to jobs. All right. Uh so we're going to bit of wrap up, right? So again, quick summary here. Leadership isn't about title. It's about initiative, problem solving, and real impact. Also, uh I forgot to add there also is collaboration too. leadership uh is leadership uh title is important but it isn't necessary right so I still encourage everyone to still try to actively uh participate in clubs get motivated and and try to get into these like higher positions because they do matter and it doesn't matter because of the title but it matters because of the impact that you could be making. Second, use storytelling and clear results in your application, right? Being able to be articulate. Uh try to, you know, always ask why, quantify, you know, expand on it. Don't just start at the very don't don't just use basic language. And lastly, you can start building your leadership story right now. Meaning that you don't have to wait for something to happen. The whole point about initiative or showing initiative is that you can start as early as today or tomorrow on these issues. If you see a problem, work on it. If you're passionate about something, just do it. And so, don't overthink it. Just take one step at a time and then it'll naturally fall into place, right? All right. And so, that's your kind of call to action there, which is just to get started. Uh, and so that is the end of our webinar just for today. And so for those who are new to this webinar and you uh really liked what you heard, uh you could text coach to be able to receive your 15 uh your free 15-minute coaching call to 949-7750865. Nothing is sold on this call. The goal is just to be able to get you started if you haven't engaged with our community before. Second, text notes and replay to 949-770865 if you want this recording or if you want the notes uh to this Google document. And so know that uh this it will be made available within 24 48 hours once we have processed the video and um go from there. Aside from that um we can go into Q&A. I think we have a smaller group today so I imagine there might not be too many questions but does do folks have any questions about anything that we talked about regarding leadership? All right, I'm hearing none so far. So, that being said, I'm going to stop this webinar and uh it was uh good to be able to present to you all. Hope you enjoyed it and uh good luck on terms of your activity statements. See youall next time.