Leadership skills for first year college students are very important, our issue is: who is more responsible for building these skills?
Leadership skills need to be modeled at all time not only in school also in homes and communities and churches. Its up to us what we do with it. Our experience good and bad can change the way we value things that can shape our leadership skills.
dear ahmad
leadership skılls can not be limited to university or high school.These kınd of skılls start at home when a child becomes aware of his or her social environment.But it formally started ın kindergarden education and goes on to university.In every level there should be curriculum including skills to be gainedçMay be from simple to advanced level.There should be learning experiences for children prepared by the curriculum
the mean problem ist: nowadays usually people are NEVER trained in leadership skilss, until they start to become leaders... so YES it is important to teach this, from kindergarden, over ground school up to pst-graduate studies...
Leadership quality can be developed in school itself. The teachers should not have Partiality. All the students should be given a chance to express their views. First of all the teachers should go for counseling. They should motivate the students, if not motivated atleast let them not demotivate the students. Getting high score alone should not be the target for the teachers. In general the teachers encourage only high scorer in all the activities. That attitude should be changed. Every child has an inherited talent. This is the duty of the teachers to bring it out and to make him/her pride. This is the real service to the society. the roll of teacher that too elementary teacher role is very very crucial in this regard.
The word 'leadership' has a very similar basis to the word 'interesting'.....it means nothing and everything. Much depends on what aspect you are talking about. In relation to personal qualities, it becomes everyone's responsiblity, eg., parents, schools, university, the workplace and society and, more importantly, the person themselves. Then again, these personal qualities become one of the eye of the beholder, except, perhaps, those related to civic virtue. If you are talking about more technical skills, such as problem-solving in a specific area (adding to one's general capacity for this), then this seems to be contextual, a dynamic interplay of the person and the workplace/school environment.
The points raised are valid. I think providing opportunities for leading in different events is the responsibility of the school/ institute. Those who really have the potential will excel. We have a saying that some of the attributes are visible from cradle itself so why not to try with small activities. More dynamic decision making may not be possible.
It is unstable thing. You can imlplemet to some students but others can't be implemented. Besides, it is related to childhood that structured with leadership awareness. When begin to university that student, he/she will has had an oppurtunity to self-actualization, they have superiority over others. Then there is no need to any responsibility to bild leadership skills. It is occured itself.
Dr. Anuradha Murali Dravidian University, Kuppam, A.P., India
I think it is the equal responsibility of both high school and the university. It is a continuing process. If it starts with good foundation in the high school, it should be strongly moulded and carried forward at the university level. To be even more perfect, leadership skills should begin at home and better shaped with strong emotional intelligence and self-confidence at high school. At the University level, they need little more motivation, co-operation and opportunities to exhibit their skills through effective curriculum and powerful co-curricular activities.
Thank you my friends for your answers, I think its unstable thing as "Ahmet" said, at the same time itequal responsibility as "Anuradha" said.
Yes absolutely right, it strats from school, grow up in the university, and end up in profession. It needs development at all levels but first step of encouragement is the part of the school.
So, ok,. It's an all school responsibility. But what should universities do?
I did some time ago research on the match between leadership skills and profession...
While it should start at school, universities should include it in their freshman year program. This is in many cases left for co-curricular activities but it needs to make its way into first year programs.
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