NSHMHighSchoolConferenceFashionShow

 I volunteered to be the coordinator for the National Society for Minorities in Hospitality High School Conference Fashion Show in hopes for it to better prepare me to take over coordinating the whole event next year. Through my time in the Hospitality and Tourism Management major at San Diego State University, I have learned a lot about myself and my leadership philosophy and style. I have also learned that there are areas I need to work on before I truly can become a great leader in the hospitality field.  Through the PRINT assessment I have learned that I am overly critical, have unrealistic expectations of others and just overall too controlling.  Through my personal experiences with leadership, I know that I can also not delegate enough, have time management issues, become too authoritative, and just be very bossy.  These are all things that I wanted to work on throughout this leadership experience.

Before contacting my intended volunteers, I wanted to have an idea of what I wanted the high school attendees, the volunteers, and myself to get out of the fashion show. I have been involved with the mentoring programs for Mount Miguel High School and Hilltop High School the past few years so I felt like I would know the students well enough to know what they would and would not want to see. The fashion show was part of the entertainment during lunch and was really to wake the kids up before some very important and interesting speakers came on. In addition, I really wanted to show kids what and what not to where in a professional setting because lord knows I had no idea when I was their age. These goals also went along with the purpose of the whole event, which was to really expose and teach the students about the hospitality field.