According to Kumar, Adhish, and Deoki (2014, p. 82), leadership is defined “as an ability to influence a group toward the achievement of goals”. Also, it has been argued that leadership is a trainable and transferable skills, rather than being an exclusively in born ability (Kumar et al., 2014). This invariably means that if anyone has the desire and the will power, such person can become an effective leader. Apart from this, Taylor (2009) sees “leadership in terms of unifying people around values and then constructing the social world for others around those values and helping people to get through change”. As indicated by Taylor (2009), key leadership elements include vision and strategic thinking, external awareness, influence, motivation,
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However, due to my resilience, and based on the past experience, I have learnt a lesson that giving up a mission is tantamount to failure. According to American Psychological Association (APA, 2016), “resilience is the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats or significant sources of stress— such as family and relationship problems, serious health problems or workplace and financial stressors.” It means "bouncing back" from difficult experiences. Leaders also face difficult tasks where decisions(s) must be made which could be costly and …show more content…
For example, in my former school in Nigeria, we used to have inter-medical schools quiz competition and debate where the best among the students would be selected to face other schools. Then, the school authority would choose students randomly without proper knowledge whether these students were ready or motivated for the task. I foresaw a situation when students will lose interests in doing this because there was no structure to keep the momentum alive. As the captain of my class, I started quiz competition within my class by dividing the class into two different groups. This creative idea infused energy into the class, and my colleagues were always looking for the competition. Due to the fact that this idea had been tested and appeared successful with positive outcomes from my colleagues, I decided to extend the competition to other classes, by allowing professors to set questions and chair the competition. This idea did not only create healthy competition among students, it also helped them to pass successfully, and motivating them to participate in inter-school quiz competition. Leaders are known to influence, motivate, and challenge the status quo, and this was what I
However, due to my resilience, and based on the past experience, I have learnt a lesson that giving up a mission is tantamount to failure. According to American Psychological Association (APA, 2016), “resilience is the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats or significant sources of stress— such as family and relationship problems, serious health problems or workplace and financial stressors.” It means "bouncing back" from difficult experiences. Leaders also face difficult tasks where decisions(s) must be made which could be costly and …show more content…
For example, in my former school in Nigeria, we used to have inter-medical schools quiz competition and debate where the best among the students would be selected to face other schools. Then, the school authority would choose students randomly without proper knowledge whether these students were ready or motivated for the task. I foresaw a situation when students will lose interests in doing this because there was no structure to keep the momentum alive. As the captain of my class, I started quiz competition within my class by dividing the class into two different groups. This creative idea infused energy into the class, and my colleagues were always looking for the competition. Due to the fact that this idea had been tested and appeared successful with positive outcomes from my colleagues, I decided to extend the competition to other classes, by allowing professors to set questions and chair the competition. This idea did not only create healthy competition among students, it also helped them to pass successfully, and motivating them to participate in inter-school quiz competition. Leaders are known to influence, motivate, and challenge the status quo, and this was what I