Message to the alumni association
As an official blogger for an international association, I wrote the following (Knight, 2013):
As a researcher of professional communication, I recognize that many different conceptualizations of leadership exist. For me personally, however, I like to view leadership as a communication process consisting of two parts: 1) communicating to create a vision and 2) communicating to achieve a vision. Leadership is considered by many to be an “influence relationship,” and in my personal conceptualization of leadership, leadership would involve influencing others through communication associated with the goals of part 1 and part 2.
Kota, Masanori, Hide, and Kana deserve recognition for communicating to create and to achieve this event! This event was Kota's final leadership project in my seminar, and he accepted my offer to connect him with IBC alumni who had displayed their leadership abilities in previous years. Masanori created a leadership event in Crystal Hall that brought together business leaders and KUIS club leaders. (Hide helped Masanori.) I continue to use Masanori's portfolio website as an example in my leadership seminar now. Did you know that Masanori was vice- president of Makuchari? Hide created the first event that brought together all IBC students (1st, 2nd, 3rd, & 4th year students) and professors. (Kana helped Hide.) In addition, after working for the Government of Japan overseas and returning to KUIS, Hide created an event in Crystal Hall that brought together KUIS students who had lived in Africa. Kana was extremely skillful in online communication. She created a website to see how many followers she could attract in a short time, and the number was impressive. Kana spent time in Australia, and it was not surprising to me to learn that she was in charge of the IBC Facebook page. When Kota told me that he wanted to bring together all IBC students, alumni, and professors together for one event, I knew that I should introduce him to these three leaders. Kota has now joined the ranks of the other IBC leaders that I use as examples in my classes, and you have most likely heard me talking about projects such as a public beach clean-up and barbecue event, fun English lessons for orphans, and the professional management of a comedy performance in Tokyo in order to raise money for victims of the earthquake and tsunami. I hope that you will all create and achieve socially responsible visions in your roles as leaders!?
The story of Dr. Kevin Knight
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