Being “Leader” is essential for BBA students since it can bring wonderful life experience and better future to us. During these eighteen years, what leadership-related experiences do I have? In this paper, I will share the most memorable leadership-related challenge to you with some suitable concepts and theories. What’s more, the lesson I have learned after the challenge happened in order to be an effective leader in the future.
Leadership-related Challenge: Lack of confidence
Because of my personalities which are outgoing and curious, I was the member of Girl Guide since I was form one. When I was form four, our school held a leadership training activity for us in the hope of training our resilience and patience, which was “Orienteering”. We were distributed into five groups and each of group included five girls from different forms. I was the leader of my group since they were all form one, form two students and only one of them was form three.
The game took place in Rotary Park Nature Trail in Tai Mo Shan. Because of the unfamiliar place and lacking in experience, I started to be nervous. We were acquired a map of Rotary Park Nature Trail with all the checkpoint were marked on there and a compass. However, same with my younger group-mates, I have not tried to play orienteering before. What’s more, I was unfamiliar with using compass and map. Therefore, we were all stayed in the starting point helplessly even all the groups were hunting their checkpoints.
As I did not read the map of Rotary Park Nature Trail before the orienteering, I knew nothing about there. Moreover, lacking in confidence made my decision hesitantly. For instance, deciding the priorities of those checkpoints uncertainly and determining the direction nervously and wrongly. One of my teammates who were form three thought that we needed to keep on walking in order to keep up with other groups while I thought that we needed to first plan the priorities of checkpoints before