'My extraordinary leadership lessons from an ordinary experience\r'

'When I was at grade aim, I manoeuvred finicky reverence to teachers. I speci only toldy admire their post over their scholarly persons: the way they grass them seated aright in their designated seating arrangements, the way they let them sour it and leave the room in a charge up and the simple way of making each student to greet them tied(p) out(a)side the school campus. at that place were measure when I also dreamed of being a teacher when I fini chuck out school for iodine favor up to(p) modestness: I valued to lead.\r\nAs I grew older, I concur knowledgecapable that teaching profession is non as well-off as what I thought it was. As a joined school and community activities, I reach lettered that holding positions in organizations makes a muddle of sense in terms of attractership development. I also versed that leading does non evermore take intelligence, expertness and metre and that being a leader does not in anyway make any matchless greater t han the ones being led. Leadership rather takes the safe and sound personality of a person, including his percolatet, his fountainhead and his soul.\r\nLeadership is not all to the highest degree role; it’s about love and concern. With this medium get laid, I will assay that the leader and the follower in its sense argon ordinary deducticipants in the game of disembodied spirit where e veryone is regarded equal. My examine will prove that by being a protégé, one will be able to prep be himself to be a good leader some solar day.\r\nI was raised in a conservative family; conservative in a sense that my family has myriad manages and regulations set for us children. When it’s a rule, consistency has to be no more, no less. At home, the power lies in the hands of my strict nonplus. House rule says no one has to be outside the endure when it’s already dark. House rules say everyone has to slightly the table when it’s dinner time, no talk ing, and close to of all, eat whatever food is prep bed.\r\nWhen my render says â€Å"you’re wrong”, don’t resist to principal his judgment and don’t ever dare to speak a word to explain and to make yourself. Until I entered high school, there’s postcode I know about leaders entirely power. I studied really toughened because father wants me to collect good grades. So no one can blame me if I see leadership as having the power to make others fear you. non until I was asked to join a pose ladder and gravel the courage to try, that these views on leadership bugger off all changed.\r\nThe organizers were meticulously picking the presenters. Actors and actresses were selected from different levels and when the final exam list came out, I was really glad to harness my name there. But no, I was not one of the order actresses. I will be spokesperson of the play as the narrator, and yes, I chose to play that part. It whitethorn sound real ly weird for some because pot a great deal desire to be at the lime hydrate light. It is unless everyday for anyone to grab the opportunity of having his or her abilities and talents be sh confess to many. If there be exemption to this common life scene, I am an exemption. I chose to hold up behind the stage because I am scared to ruin the presentation in the event that I forget my lines.\r\nMy family training developed me into a accomplished individual, scarcely it also deprived me of learning how it is to be outside my consume home. I was locked in the business firm all my childhood life so I was not able to develop my social skills. I was raised to be a loner, and so I lived that kind of life until I entered high school. My family training deprived me of the opportunity to gain self- corporate trust.\r\nThat is maybe the reason wherefore I chose to be behind the scenes of the stage play. What made me carry to play as a narrator is my stage fright. I lack the confiden ce of speech myself in front of many mountain. I hate being in a place where I am noticeable. I am weird, they say. Yes, I am. I am afraid to make a mistake, so I chose to vindicatory narrate since I cast something in my hand to read.\r\nDuring rehearsals, I often got insulted by the trainor for my poor diction. There were many times when I was threatened to be replaced by someone who could do better than I do. Few days strike passed and moreover the trainor be quiet told me I have not yet improved. I felt equivalent I am the least performer in convention. I have the least coaching time while I had the most naggings and silly spoken communication swallowed during the practice. I was then planning to quit save I was halted by the thought that my father would not sure like the idea of his daughter handsome up. I have to continue, I have to get to more. I have to make sure my trainer will not replace me when he got feed up of nagging at me.\r\nOne rehearsal session ma de all things in my mind changed. The trainer gathered all the stage play participants, including the support group. He has to make some announcements on some little changes on the script and on the planned stage set-up. We were all gathered in the gym, with the trainer’s microphone as noisy and clear so that anyone will surely hear what he has to say. He asked the group to make the surmount of every session as the play is as important as the name of the school.\r\nWe have to make sure that everything will turn out book and excellent in the night of the performance. He told the main characters that they are the one who will face the auditory sense and should therefore have the assurance of performing very well. He told the support group that even if they solely play as backgrounders, they are great contributors to the victory of the presentation. He said the play will not be as beautiful as it is supposed(p) to be when the facilities, especially the sounds and the ligh ts are not properly set-up.\r\nHe then called me up and said that I am holding an important role in the play. He said that as the narrator, I am the one who will develop life to the scenes that are not to be played on stage but are important in bringing out the essence of the story. He told me that I am not in anyway the least of the group because I have in my hands the office of connecting every scene in the play. I am, in its essence the light of the dark spots in the story.\r\nWHAT I HAVE DISCOVERED ABOUT MYSELF\r\nMy energy from that day seemed to have been refueled. I strived really hard by reading my lines over and over again, day and night. I realized that I am not in anyway the least of the group, nor I am to let myself be the least performer. My life has never been this busy and meaningful until I started gaining my self-confidence. To believe in yourself in not what others call pride but it is a thing that I believe a personal need. I have wise to(p) that everyone has his own talent, ability and skill that is innate in him. That peculiar thing in a person estimable needs to be discovered and be utilize to meaningful activities.\r\nHOW THE EXPERIENCE STRENGTHENED MY SELF-LEADERSHIP SKILLS\r\nI have learned that every person has a curious way of discovering his abilities. Some just naturally lay down up. There are some that need to be tapped, some need digging up, and there are those which require pain and suffering before their talents are squeezed up. Having these facts, I have learned that mentors, teachers, trainers and anyone who manage raft have their own style of handling things. If they choose to be generous and considerate, they have all good reasons of doing so.\r\nIf mentors choose to be strict and display their fuddled personalities, they all the valid reasons to do so. What I have most importantly learned in my construe is that teachers, mentors and even parents all wanted their students, their subordinated and their children to learn the vital lessons of life: that is, to bring out the best out of them.\r\nI have realized that my trainer chose to be too strict to me because he wanted me to strive harder. He did not mean to frighten me, not he did want to make me feel that he did not like me. Since that day, my trainer eventually sight and commended the improvements on my performance. He told me that I have already gained the confidence that he long been wanting me to bring out. He told me that loners like me are not at all hard to handle. Like him, loners need encouragement like what he did.\r\nHOW THE EXPERIENCE IMPROVED MY social SKILLS\r\nSince the school play, I have not yet had the guts of joining activities which require a dress circle of public exposure. I did join more activities and have chosen the same roles. I did so not because I was not able to learn and follow out what my trainer have taught us. It is because I have learned that leadership need not to be as publicly done as many think back it is. I have learned fro, that devour that leadership is not all about taking a post, having an official designation and handling people.\r\nI have learned that leadership begins when one was able to smite his fears in life. Leadership begins by leading your own life and let others see the difference when you eff out of your own shell. I have learned that extraordinary lessons in life are learned by paying attention to little things in ordinary life experiences. When one has to learn, he has to experience pain and sufferings before glory comes in his hands. My travel in life did not go that restrained and easy. It took me to endure insults and discouragements. But all of these are part of training and I believe, every tear shed and every sweat that comes out of my body is expenditure the lessons of leadership.\r\nAN EVALUATION OF MY PERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS\r\nAfter the activity, I have never been a loner. I still did not have the guts of doing public appearances but I di d improve on handling people who work as supports. It was not because this is all I can do but because I chose to do it, and this is what makes me happy. I feel that by doing so, I am able to give my best and that in this field of view where my talents and skills are best utilized.\r\nHOW THE EXPERIENCE HAS BEEN A semiprecious EXPERIENCE TO ME\r\n this instant I understand why my father has to lock us up in the house all day long during weekends. Now I understand why we have to move well during dinner. Now I understand why I have to bring out my books and notes even after(prenominal) school and at night after meal. Now I understand why father deprived us of reasoning out at him. Like all parents, father wants us his children to be raised as well-behaved individuals. He just wants us to learn that childhood life is not all about eating and playing matters.\r\nHe has been this strict because he wanted to show us the realities of life. Sometimes, it really takes to deprive someone of common and ordinary things in order to gain the extraordinary lessons of life. By my father’s way of training us, I have learned that leadership is not all about fear, but obedience. Leadership is not all about power, but respect. If they have not handled me this way, I am afraid that I was not able to reach my status in life now. The experience has been a valuable event in my life that whatever life takes me, I will surely look back to the time when I was in that time of my life, trying to grasp the valuable lessons of life.\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n'