My Interests of Leadership from My Experience

   When I was high school student, I belonged to brass band club for six years and I experienced the captain in the 3rd grade. Since I already had been in this club for five years, I had seen many captains who have different characteristic each year. Therefore, when I became the captain, I had strong ideal vision that I really want to change better in this club. After my becoming the captain and changing many things such as rules, finally we achieved the goal at the summer competition.

   However, it was not easy to change. For the first time, my vision was too much hard for the club because there are so different from the past. Therefore, my team members and teacher could not accept them first. I thought that I was sometimes competitive, but I did not give up to explain to them why I wanted to change and why it was needed. Also, I never have avoided to negotiate and I have kept to explain until they could understand. Then, my team mates' motivation gradually changed and my teacher gave me many opportunities what I expect to.

   In L@E on Chapter1, it is said "a leader who failed to understand the distinction between individual actions and team motivation". In fact, it seemed that my vision was likely to fail for the first time because of my high expectation toward the club. However, there are a few members who tried to follow me and support me, so my vision became not only mine but also ours. I think it is very important that "leaders at The Eage need to maintain a balance between their own needs and the needs of the team, and they must concentrate on engaging the whole organization".

   Through my experience of leader, I really sympathize with importance of 10 strategies in L@E. Especially, reinforcing the team message constantly is very important, because it is possible to approach and visualize the goal and it allows team members to keep memorizing it. I learned many things through the experience, but there are two main things that I want to challenge again about leadership.

   First is how to enjoy myself during being a leader. Of course, I could enjoy to manage the club, but it was too hard to keep to being as model for team members. After finishing the role of captain, I thought that "I do not want to be a leader anymore!" Therefore, I really want to know how to enjoy the leadership and to try to be good leader.
   Second is how to get along with sub leader. I think motivation of sub leader is more complicate than head of leader, because thier opportunity that they can pratically take a lead the team is less than head of leader. One thing that I regret is that I should anything to try communicating more with her, so I want to know this solution.

   I hope to look for what good leadership is in this class with you!