Its a people’s skill. A valuable one too. Management is important, especially in the social areas in life. You’ve gotta be able to manage so many things. Time & Money are two important examples. Without management things would fall into disarray, and would be too messy to handle.
Organising an outing would be another example of a management task. You would have to gather the people, decide on places to go, and finally, actually execute the outing. It may seem as easy as that, but managing people isn’t that easy at all. Humans are fickle, by nature, and they don’t like to decide things on the spot. Thats where leadership skills kick in. Being a leader, you’ve got the responsibility of holding a decision for the majority, sometimes by the majority, sometimes not, but as the leader you’ve gotta make a stand. Managing the people involved and all their queries would be a major task, especially in a large scale event. Knowing what to say what when to say it helps a lot too in these situations. Thats all just part of skills every leader has to partake.
Dealing with unforeseen circumstances; another challenge. When you’ve got a plan, and you think you’ve got it all right and sorted out, perhaps think again. Anything could happen, your plan might break up into pieces just after something happens. You’ve gotta be fast and swift to come up with a backup escape route, so that at least something can be salvaged from the original idea. Being firm with your idea puts across confidence into other people’s hearts, and so you win them over. Being indecisive and nervous won’t help a bit; it’ll only tell the rest that your not too sure of yourself and that they shouldn’t gather around you in case you fall on them.
Being a leader isn’t hard at all; the way I look at it. Its all about seeing the responsibilities as challenges, and getting over them one by one is the only way we can get the whole situation back in control. Theres no use panicking when your faced with a whole bunch of problems, you’ll only sink deeper into the sand.
Now that the main point of the project is screwed, I’m pretty much screwed unless I come up with a good escape. Ahh, leadership. >_>
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