Our children will inherit the world that will be full of complexes, ambiguities and other social, political and economic problems and, in order to best cater with the growing problems, they have to be strong, sturdy, possessing the best leadership skills.
When such an immense necessity is of leadership characteristics, the children should be made acquainted with leadership styles, its theories and its traits at an early age, to nurture them as a successful leader in the best possible way.
The article well covers the important characteristics required for a leader and, unveil the different approaches at academic levels that would bring out of them a potential leadership.
There lies a wide array of leadership styles, classifying the diverse behaviors, actions and characteristics of varied people. However, the most successful is the “transformational Leadership Style” for; it encompasses the collective motivation and participation of leaders and subordinates, providing a source of inspiration for subordinates. Also, it could be applied while tackling various problems. Therefore, it is exceptionally important to carve our children as the transformational leader to best tackle the future adversities.
Good Communicator, Creative and Innovative, Imaginative, Keen Observer, Decisive, Responsible, fully aware, Motivated, Flexible, Assertive, Optimistic and Social; these are the hallmarks of the leader’s characteristics and, these could ensure the unconquerable leadership.
The fundamental qualities can be instilled by introducing few measures in the curriculum
• Good Communication Skills
The present globalized world is all about information and communication. No matter how much skills does a person possess, no matter how much intelligent and knowledgeable he is, it can not be displayed properly if the person lacks good communication skills. Hence, it is extremely vital to improve and mature the communication skills of pupils.
To instill the comprehensible communication skills, campus education must encourage public-speaking. Pupils must be assigned with some topics for presentation and at the assigned date, allow the children to express their ideas articulately in front of the students, teachers and administration staff. The audience must be spurred to come up with the useful question to alleviate the good communication and understanding skills of both.
Moreover, the children should be allowed to guide youth club members on the topic of their interest as a teacher, covering each and every niche of topic. Group discussion, conferences and debate competitions should be organized to encourage healthy conversation, giving them an opportunity to present their ideas articulately and fluently.
An effective way of developing the communication leadership skills is to allow the children to conduct assemblies, functions and do live coverage of the celebrations on religious days, national and international days. This will boost up their confidence and will unveil the best communication skills of them.
• Creativity, Innovation And Imagination
Arts, mathematics, sciences are full of projects and assignments that could compel the pupil to effectively use their brain to come up with logical solutions .These assignments foster creativeness, quick decisive power and stimulates rational behavior and thinking. Moreover, these subject exist due to the contribution of great leaders such as scientists, painters, calligraphers, educationist etc.It will allow them with the deep analysis of their contributions as a leader and would act as inspirations for them in future life, that is hungrily waiting for their superb leadership skills for a promising success.
A theme should be assigned to students monthly, allowing them to come up with any possible contribution covering the title from any angle. This would enable students to unleash their critical thinking and creative ideas. The display of all those things at the end of month will enable the true exchange of ideas and would allow them to trust on their invincible capabilities.
• Keen Observation
The most effective way is to take the students to any recreational site and ask them to list all the sights and sounds and explain each sight and sound with the web of creative, meaningful words that picture the scene as finely as possible. Also, read the services and the extra ordinary qualities and work of all the great leaders and, display some of the work on slides for a short while. Ask random questions to judge their observational and listening skills.
• Decision Power And Resilience
Organize the youth clubs, science, literary and English clubs and allow them to organize at least an activity a month. The school administration just allocates some specific budget; let the rest to be decided by the members. This will polish their decision making skills, develop their self-confidence and trust on themselves. Also, in case of any mistake on their part, they have to be resilient to support their decision.
Head Girls, Deputy Head Girls and prefect, all are the part of each and every school to maintain discipline. The best approach in choosing the young leaders is to allow the students to take decision. This can be done by organizing an election campaign week, allowing each candidate to speak few words about their plans and future changes. Students will analyze their capabilities and would vote for the one who think are the best. This decision power will allow them to realize the power of their vote, learn about the importance of democracy and will let them ponder over their decisions too. The will muster enough courage to stand up for their decision and face the consequences, no matter what.
• Optimism
The optimistic thinking could be best inculcated if teachers use only the positive language in explaining any thing dreadful and dangerous. Also, in any open play ground, allow the students to list the bad and good sights and sounds. Furthermore, ask the students to list the good aspects of the previous day. This would allow them to find a ray of hope even no matter how worst the day had been. The student must be acquainted with the background and reasonable information of any thing and personality and, then should be asked to summarize the positive aspects only. All these measures would make them sanguine to the core.
• Sociability And Flexibility
These are the most important leadership traits required in today’s leaders .In fact these form the true essence for an authentic leadership. The transformational leadership itself is all about the sociability and flexibility. These leadership skills can be infused by entrusting with the tasks that allow group members cooperation as much as possible.
Encourage the group leader to take decisions that transform the ideals of all in to realism, keeping in view their vision. This will help him to have good social behavior as well as flexibility in his approach. The group members should also be encouraged to amalgamate the suggestions of all in such a way that ensures the victorious outcome.
Once all these actions are taken, the genuine leadership qualities will become the part of their incomparable personality, eventually leading them to be a successful leader. The students are future of tomorrow; any careless mistake on our part could explode their future in no time, creating a huge problem on the face of earth. That’s why it is exceptionally important to water these seeds with good efforts to make them strong, sturdy plant that cheerfully blooms in the blissful blossoms of successful people.
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