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Assessment 1 - Entry 1 Princess Diana: Aisha Amir EDU 3003 Khadija Aljassmi

Princess Diana was an effective leader who exhibited compassion and helped change public attitudes. She sat without gloves with an AIDS patient to show those with AIDS deserve no isolation. Diana championed banning landmines and advocated for marginalized people as a volunteer. She believed in giving people chances and brought awareness to issues like AIDS, hunger, and leprosy. Diana's qualities of empathy, problem-solving, and desire to help the vulnerable inspire the author, who sees similarities in enjoying charity work and wanting to learn from challenges.

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Assessment 1 - Entry 1 Princess Diana: Aisha Amir EDU 3003 Khadija Aljassmi

Princess Diana was an effective leader who exhibited compassion and helped change public attitudes. She sat without gloves with an AIDS patient to show those with AIDS deserve no isolation. Diana championed banning landmines and advocated for marginalized people as a volunteer. She believed in giving people chances and brought awareness to issues like AIDS, hunger, and leprosy. Diana's qualities of empathy, problem-solving, and desire to help the vulnerable inspire the author, who sees similarities in enjoying charity work and wanting to learn from challenges.

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EDU 3003 Assessment 1- Entry 1

Assessment 1 – Entry 1

Princess Diana

Aisha Amir
EDU 3003
Khadija Aljassmi

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EDU 3003 Assessment 1- Entry 1

What is leadership? A simple definition is that leadership is the ability to influence and guide
followers or other members of an organization. Leadership is to establishing achievable goals
and making sound and sometimes difficult decisions, creating and articulating a clear vision.
An effective leader possesses the following characteristics: self-confidence, openness to
change, and levelheadedness and reactiveness in times of crisis, perseverance in the face of
failure, creative and innovative thinking and strong communication and management skills.
Based on this view what the most inspired leader whom I genuinely admire she called
Princess Diana she was admired for her ground-breaking charity work, in particular, her work
with AIDS patients and supporting the campaign for banning landmines.

Why Diana is a good leader


What makes Princess Diana one of the famous and an effective leader in the world that she
has many good qualities and she is an epitome of a servant leader. The great leader is seen as
a servant first and Princess Diana exhibited the core traits of a servant leader, such as
listening, empathy, healing, awareness, persuasion, conceptualization, foresight, stewardship,
commitment to the growth of people and building community.
The main qualities that inspire me in Diana are compassion, kindness and helpfulness, in
1987 when so many people believed that AIDS could be contracted through casual contact,
Princess Diana sat on the sickbed of a man with AIDS and held his hand and even more
significantly, without gloves. She showed that people with AIDS deserve no isolation, it
helped change world opinion, and gave hope to people with AIDS with an outcome of the
saved lives of people at risk.

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Princess Diana skills, values and attitudes


Diana, Princess of wales understood the power of her role in the public’s eye, and she used
that understanding to change attitudes to essential issues. For instance: she changes the way
her country viewed social issues that for centuries were seen as undesirable. According to
Professor Jane Robbins “In her effort to serve others, Princess Diana brought awareness of
AIDS research and hunger awareness in impoverished countries, showed empathy towards
people with leprosy when it was still seen as an untouchable disease, and fought against the
use of land mines” (Robbins, 2019).
Diana campaigned to ban the use of dangerous landmines and as a volunteer for the
International Red Cross, she has visited many places to raise awareness about the devastation
that landmines cause, particularly the atrocious injuries suffered by children.
Princess Diana skills are problem-solving and she advocated for people who otherwise
would not have a voice because of the social system that existed in the United Kingdom, she
was not afraid to speak out and show her support to those marginalized by society. Princess
Diana believed “everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something
back if only they had the chance”.

In conclusion, I consider Princess Diana as an effective leader because of her unique qualities
and I notice some similarities between her qualities and mine, such as empathy which she
exhibited over and over again through her work with charity and I also used to involve in
charity. In addition, I feel happy and proud of myself when I help others as Princess Diana
used too and she has said “Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most
vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny.
Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are". On the other
hand, what I would like to acquire from Diana is overcome the challenges I face and learn
from my mistakes.

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EDU 3003 Assessment 1- Entry 1

References

Changing Public Attitudes. (2019). Retrieved from Dianas Legacy:


http://dianaslegacy.co.uk/changing-public-attitudes/

Liza. (2019). Diana, Princess of Wales Leadership Profile. Retrieved 3 JANUARY, 2017,
from Leadership Geeks: http://www.leadershipgeeks.com/diana-princess-wales-
leadership/

Robbins, P. J. (n.d.). LeadershipTheory and Behavior. Retrieved NOVEMBER 16, 2010,


from LeadershipTheory: http://leadershiptheory3450.blogspot.com/2010/11/peoples-
princess.html

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