Jantel'z TaleZ Exploring Leadership and Communication Strategies

  This is my last post for my Leadership and Media Strategies Communication 6610 course at Troy University. I was going to take this time to write my plans and where I see myself in two to five years. However, this week was extremely tough regarding mental health. The world lost a great person Stephen Boss, also know to the world as Twitch’. Twitch was known for his dancing, and DJing on the Ellen DeGeneres show. Three days prior to Twitch’s suicide, he and his wife posted a dancing video saying they were excited about Christmas. Now, this was not out of the norm since he and his wife have huge social media platforms known for their dancing. You never know when someone is struggling, never know when someone who appears happy, is sad. It is important to check on your loved ones. If you are unable to provide them with the support they need, please provide them with services like the suicide prevention hotline, or a number to a mental health care professional.    ...

Rounding the bend and coming up on the winter break, and one more week of class. This week in our Leadership and Media Strategies Communication course. I learned that I am supposed to be here. I feel this way at an educational level. I fought to become a graduate student. It took me 16 years to obtain a bachelor’s degree, which I obtain back in 2016. Now, I could have gone directly to graduate school, but I felt I was not supposed to be in graduate school. However, at a professional level I feel like I have yet to show my leadership at my job who I really am. For years I have made myself smaller to not make others feel small. This is something I discussed in week four of this leadership course on my professional blog, titled Lollipop, Poison, and Leadership. “ I have the worst posture. It is something I deal with daily. The pain of my back hurting because I slouch. I realized early on when I started slouching. I was in the fifth grade and my teacher gave me a compliment in front of t...

  Organizations from Amazon, to Boeing, down to the local Community Base Care agency, or lead agencies in Child Welfare all experience some sort of crisis. How fast the leaders of those agencies respond to the crisis are how the community will see these organizations. This was the case back in 2018 in Hillsborough County. The county is in the city of Tampa, Florida. This county went through a crisis when it was reported that unruly teens were sleeping in their social workers/case managers car if they denied their placement. When it was reported that the head of that community base care agency knew this was going on for months there as a meeting that was held with the entire community, but the media was not allowed. This further made the lead agency look bad. Although most of the reports were by disgruntled employees and allegedly violent teens who refused placement. The crisis still looks bad for the agency. Although, Eckerd is no longer the lead agency in Hillsborough County and t...