Junior Achievement Award Ceremony
This year was the first year that I participated in Junior Achievement as a business educator. My brother and I both received a plaque for our efforts. I only have a picture of my brother receiving his plaque because I was on vacation and could not attend the ceremony.
Junior Achievement is a worldwide partnership between the business community, educators and volunteers — all working together to inspire young people to dream big and reach their potential. Junior Achievement’s hands-on, experiential programs teach the key concepts of work readiness, entrepreneurship and financial literacy to young people all over the world.
My brother Rick Kennedy (high school business teacher for E.C. Glass high school) and I teamed up this year. This was his fourth year doing this and my first. Below is the article from the Lynchburg City School website about this year’s results.
Good Business Sense: E.C. Glass Economics Students Awarded for their Entrepreneurial Skills
Effective leader in an organization
The other day I was flattered to find out that a former employee of mine, who is pursuing his PhD through Capella University, wrote about me during an assignment. The question presented was:
Think of an effective leader in an organization you know well. Choose either the two dimensions of leadership in the Ohio State studies (initiating structure and consideration) or the two dimensions of leadership in the University of Michigan studies (employee-oriented and production-oriented) with which to characterize this leader. State the rationale for your choice.
Here was his response:
While working for the Liberty University Distance Learning Program a few years ago, I found myself like many other employees in the midst of a leadership change that would ultimately benefit the school in dramatic fashion within a relatively short period of time. The initial executive vice president in 2004 was unquestionably a great leader who transitioned an outdated program into a dynamic online presence with tremendous potential and with the assistance of a new assistant director in 2005 into a nationally recognized program of excellence with a special emphasis on military student enrollment. A short time later in 2006 leadership changed hands again and is now under the direction on Ronald Kennedy.
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