Group Assignment 2
Leadership
LUCT
Leadership in LUCT
What is leadership? There is a quote that says “a leader is one that knows the way goes the way and shows the way” a leader is a person that never says do this and do that says let's do this and let's do that in simplicity a leader leads and doesn't give orders around. What should be the qualities of a?
Self-assessment: Effective leaders periodically take stock of their personal strengths and shortcomings. They ask: “What do I like to do? What am I really good at?” “What are my areas of weakness, and what do I dislike doing?”
Knowing your areas of weakness does not make you weak; on the contrary, it allows you to delegate to others who have those abilities, in order to achieve the common goal. Rather than clinging to the false belief that they can do it all, great leaders hire people who complement, rather than supplement, their skills. Working on your areas of weaknesses will improve your leadership ability – and recognizing them makes you more human.
Sharp perception: Do you know how people really perceive you? Effective leaders do. They have an easy level of honest communication with their teams and their peers, and a thorough understanding of how they are perceived. Testing others’ perception of you can be as simple as observing their behavior. Are your co-workers and team members relaxed around you? Does all conversation stop when you enter the room? then that means you have an influence on others as in a leader has to have strong influences over people to be able to lead .
Responsive to the group’s needs: Being perceptive can also help a leader be more effective in knowing the needs of the team. Some team’s value trust over creativity; others prefer a clear communicator to a great organizer. Building a strong team is easier when you know the values and goals of each individual, as well as what they need from you as their leader.
Knowing the organization: Effective leaders know the organization’s overall purpose and goals, and the agreed-upon strategies to achieve these goals; they also know how their team fits into the big picture, and the part they play in helping the organization grow and thrive. Full knowledge of your organization – inside and out – is vital to becoming an effective leader.
so after covering what are the qualities of a leader is I would like to share how I built up and improved my leadership skills , personally I've always been a leader since I was a young kid I was infatuated by being a leader so it was only natural that I wanted to build my leadership skills.
My leadership skills improved when I enrolled in LUCT how you may ask? I became a student ambassador, the student ambassador program is a program that gives students the platform to be able to help bring their ideas to live and are supported by tan sri limkokwing himself, so each student ambassador represents a country or community in campus and are excepted to be the voice of their communities and be leaders for their peers to look up to them.
the student ambassador program helps build the minds of our future leaders and that is actually true because we are given the responsibility to represent our country and you don't want to let your people down so automatically you are in responsibility mode so therefore you start acting like a leader when you feel like a leader .
What are some of the challenges that you go through as a leader of the future in LUCT? before I cover that let me briefly speak about LUCT and how it's the perfect place to build your leadership skills LUCT is a very diverse university and it creates a system where communities want to change or exchange cultural ideas and share their knowledge and show how interesting their culture is so in this case you already have a structure that is ready to have leaders leading it
now going back to my point what are the challenges you face in LUCT well you will encounter many characters that will test your strength as a leader and will defiantly sharpen your leadership skills.
of course there are other aspects in which you can be a good leader in Limkokwing university ,LUCT doesn't just provide the ambassador program as a tool to build up a student's leadership skills there are also other ways what are they you may ask because not every student can be a student ambassador its only a selected few but that doesn't mean other students don't have the chance to build up their leadership skills . matter of fact there are many clubs in which the university allows students to flourish in their creativity the clubs sometimes come up with events made by students for students and in such activities leadership skills are required very heavily and will encounter problems in which skillful leaders can overcome .
to conclude our discussion leadership is something we either gain in life through experience or are born with the trait and have to enhance on it but either way we need to know one thing to be a leader you have to lead not just point fingers and expect things to happen, a good leader takes charge and makes sure the whole team makes an effort in whatever they are working on to put it in a better perspective a commander does not order soldier to go fight if he him self is not ready to jump into battle .
so always put in mind a true leader only respects his followers more than anything to make them be whole you need to be the back bone and the structure that supports the entire team .
Random Words Association
The Problem: Why is leadership important to a team?
The Random Word: Management
The Objects: planning, efficiency, effectuation, organization, support, suggestion, communication, decision, influence, power, direction, solution, help, goals.
The Association:
1) Planning –is a dynamic profession that works to improve the welfare of people and their communities by creating more convenient, equitable, healthful, efficient, and attractive places for present and future generations.
2) Cooperation –is the process of groups of organisms working or acting together for their common/mutual benefit, as opposed to working in competition for selfish benefit.
3) Efficiency –The comparison of what is actually produced or performed with what can be achieved with the same consumption of resources.
4) Effectiveness –The degree to which objectives are achieved and the extent to which targeted problems are solved.
5) Organization –are the engines of technological and social innovation, the foundations of individuals' careers, and therefore the bases of social advance and diversity.
6) Support –to approve of an idea or of a person or organization and help them to be successful.
7) Suggestion –is the psychological process by which one person guides the thoughts, feelings, or behaviour of another.
8) Communication –is simply the act of transferring information from one place to another.
9) Decision –the act or process of deciding; determination, as of a question or doubt, by making a judgment.
10) Influence –the action or process of producing effects on the actions, behavior, opinions, etc.
11) Power – is the ability to cause or prevent an action, make things happen; the discretion to act or not act. Opposite of disability, it differs from a right in that it has no accompanying duties.
12) Direction –is the information contained in the relative position of one point with respect to another point without the distance information.
13) Solution –the act of solving a problem or question.
14) Help –to do something that makes it easier for someone to do a job, to deal with a problem to aid or assist someone.
15) Goals –is a desired result that a person or a system envisions, plans and commits to achieve.
The Link:
1) Planning –Planners develop a plan through analysis of data and identification of goals for the community or the project. Planners help the community and its various groups identify their goals and form a particular vision.
2) Cooperation –To achieve something if you are part of a team, of any kind we need to cooperate so that we achieve what we are trying to do.
3) Efficiency –Managerial efficiency is the proportion of total organization resources that contribute to productivity during the manufacturing process.
4) Effectiveness –The effectiveness of the managers is measured in the effectiveness of the organization in achieving the organizational goals.
5) Organization –Creating an organization makes you the super admin. This allows you to manage all aspects of an organization, including member permissions.
6) Support –showing support for a team member's actions or decisions; helping alleviate stressful situations for subordinates; socializing; keeping team members informed about stressful situations; addressing subordinates' negative feelings; and disclosing personal information.
7) Suggestion –This would not only help establish a sense of purpose in everyone, but would also help as someone might come up with a suggestion to improvise which you may not even have thought of.
8) Communication –Members of the team make high quality decisions together and have the support and commitment of the group to carry out the decisions made. The manager should lead members to have good communication.
9) Decision –The team has agreed upon procedures for diagnosing, analyzing, and resolving team work problems and conflicts. The team does not support member personality conflicts and clashes nor do team members pick sides in a disagreement. Great leader is able to control this process.
10) Influence –The key to a successful team is that everyone shares the same passion and focus to achieve the desired target/goal. And that can only happen when everyone on the team is aware that they all are individually important for the success of the team as a whole.
11) Power –Everyone loves to be noticed for their hard work. That's where reward & reorganization sessions come handy. You can have certificates distributed for members who have been instrumental in the team's success.
12) Direction –You must know where you are going if you expect others to join you on the journey. Each person needs to understand how their work contributes. Each person needs to feel valued and part of something bigger than themselves. He or she who has a ‘why’ to live for, can bear almost any how.
13) Solution –Leaders need to focus on solutions, not problems. The challenge for an organization’s leaders is how to turn these strong principles into a process – one that creates a winning team. A leader is the driver; the processes need to be delegated and shared.
14) Help –Working together helps people grow as they learn from each other and develop important skills.
15) Goals –Your responsibility to your followers is to be clear about where you are headed. You must define the performance objective.
Juxtaposition
Leader
of course from the world lead and that’s what a leader does, it’s to lead the
teams to success and keep them on the right direction just like a sign. By
receiving the correct information and order from the leader the team can work
their way to the top which resembles the sign that give you the data you need
in order to know where to go on from the point you’re in to the goal.
Many
words can obtain the meaning of leadership; Influence, Direction, Management
and such. All those words are characteristics a leader has, these skills that
can be described as leadership and the elements needed to reach the goal and
succeed. Not to mention, can have an obvious effect on the team where with all
these features their leader has their can build a stronger relationship and
trust between the two parties.
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