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Leadership Tips For Students
Colin Ong TS
Today’s youth are living with an explosion of technological
advances especially in the area of the internet, mobile
applications and multi-player gaming. This increases the need for
proper supervision and mentoring as they may be overwhelmed by
the sheer overload of activities and information.
How is leadership relevant for them? Are they able to see beyond
their examinations and their leisure activities?
Leadership values are crucial life-skills for students because
they enable students to be able to manage their
career-progression and financial independence when they mature.
The accessibility of updated information is not a problem;
however, there must be a leadership quotient for a student to
make a decision and act on this information.
Here are some tips for educators:
A school’s achievement will have an indelible mark for students,
especially in the area of school loyalty and branding. However,
it is how the school reacts to unplanned events like losing in a
sports competition that it is supposed to win easily, provides
leadership insights to students. Leadership values are not only
relevant for periods of success but also help a student go
through times of adversity.
The interaction time for students and their teachers can be
greater than with their own parents. This does not diminish the
importance of parental guidance but at the same time puts a lot
of responsibility for teachers to impart leadership principles.
Students are very observant about how their teachers motivate
them and put the extra effort to make their lessons more
interesting. This is leadership at work.
Teachers have to ensure that leadership case-studies are relevant
to the student’s understanding. It is absurd to get a leadership
case-study from a business journal and expect the student to be
“wowed’ by how a CEO had turned the financial fortune of an MNC
or how a Military General won a battle with under-strength
military force. These macro examples can be adapted to the daily
experience like how students can organize a charity drive to
raise monies for their school building fund.
Students should be encouraged to voice their opinion about how to
take charge of global issues. This is important as leadership is
within the context of an ever-changing global landscape, not in
an air-conditioned class-room. A relevant class activity is how
countries that were badly devastated by the tsunami disaster can
put up a global warning system.
Following from the point above, students must complement their
current affairs knowledge with good persuasive and presentation
skills. They have to be convincing enough to lead the rest of the
team members. This entails the blending of multi-media
presentation tools with a lot of background research. However,
with the usefulness of the search engine, a student’s research
time can be drastically shortened.
All great leaders are supported by a world-class team. Leaders
must have good people-skills and be able to bring out the best
from the individuals in the team. These skills take years to be
developed and it is important that every student is given a
specific leadership task to fulfill.
Colin Ong TS is the Managing Director of MR=MC Consulting Pte Ltd
http://www.mrmc.com.sg . He is a
sought-after trainer in
educational institutions.
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