For module 1 of SLC 300, we were assigned to read three different articles. These articles were focused on what characteristics make good leaders, how to identify your own values and implement them into your style of leadership, and why leaders may make unethical decisions sometimes. While reading Forbes’s top 10 list of characteristics in leadership they touched base on what I believe is the most important and that is communication. Forbes describes communication as an essential part of being on a team and more importantly, leading a team. If you can not clearly communicate then your team will be on different pages and not working towards the same goal. I saw the importance of communication firsthand this summer during my internship at Fidelity. I strongly believe that part of my success this past summer was due to the communication between me and my manager. We met the first week of work to go over how I like to work, the best way to critique my work, and how we should go about communicating with each other throughout the internship. This was critical to my success in so many ways. This provided me and my manager with clear expectations going forward from the first week and allowed us to openly communicate with each other whether that be in regards to a project I was working on or her helping when I got stuck. In today’s world, I believe communication is overlooked by many people because they believe it is so simple and unimportant to success when in reality it is a pillar to any successful relationship in the workspace and especially as a leader.