Do you still remember the first time you was a leader? Were you feel exciting, afraid, or confident? Have you successful performed your job? For me, it is an exhausted but impressive experience.
I was in charge of organizing an activity which contained performances of different countries by foreign exchange students and buffet to welcome them, in order to enhance their sense of belonging to the University of Macau. The budget was MOP8000, with 20 helpers. What was more, the event required presents and certificates for best performers, as well as lucky audiences by lottery draw. I lead this activity through planning, organizing, leading motivating and controlling.
The first step was planning: when I took this job initially, I set the ultimate goal which was to enhance the friendship between local students with foreigners through actively participant in performance, joining games and enjoying delicious meal.
Next was organizing: after planning the run down, I wrote a proposal to divide the whole event into several steps: opening speech, performance by exchange students, lottery draw, serving buffet and ending speech. To be a democratic leader, I consulted fellows and asked for suggestions to improve.
The third step was leading: after organizing for run down, I assigned certain jobs to different helpers and each of them took responsible only for his or her own part: MC, time controller, site designer, leader of each foreign country’s exchange students, presents purchaser, certificates buyer, person in charge of buffet, and financer.
Next action was motivating: I encouraged helpers to actively seek for responsibility for works and said motivating words such as, I was confident you can fulfill it on time. So that peers voluntarily contributed and enjoyed working on this project.
The last behavior was controlling: after assign jobs to my fellows, I regularly called them to know what they had done, what difficulties they encountered, in order to identify the difference between the goal and actual results, made improvements and corrected errors immediately.
On one hand, I own certain number of strengths as a excellent leader; on another hand, a lot of improvements are needed. However, I am confident in myself that I have great potential, because my leadership journey just begins.
