All entries for Thursday 07 February 2013

Leadership team work

We did many exercises during leadership course. The Life Boat exercise is a good example of people considers what best leadership is. Because every group has different answers, this means each group need different leadership style, and they chose the most suitable one. However, in a real life situation, we don't usually have chance to choose leader or people you want to work with. I have experienced these through our mini-project leadership. We have been randomly put in to a team, and there are two new members we haven't worked with before. I did not know their skills, capabilities and attitude, so it was quite difficult to lead the group. As the members also do not know any information about me and each other, so it was untrusted atmosphere between each member. Think back at our first meeting, I think skill assessment should be conducted!!! Or each of us should give an introduction about ourselves and at least we should know basic information such as:

• What subject we have studied before
• Work experience
• What areas particular good at
• May be personality

There are many things I have reflected on through our teamwork. I will continue on another day.

I think leadership is about learning the right attitudes, not learning how to do things right!!

"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you."

• 6. Take control of your emotions.

"The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping."

• 7. No, they are not holding you back.

"Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire."

• 8. So, what's in it for me?

"There is only one way to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it."

• 9. How to win an argument.

"The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it."

• 10. It's about more than your words.

"There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it."

Yi Xiang : 07 Feb 2013 23:02 |  Tags: Leadership |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem