In July 2010, after passing a written test and an interview, our student Eric Wong Shu Him (4A) has been selected to participate in the English Language Leadership Program 2010 organized by Hong Kong International School at Tai Tam.
During the three-week program, gifted students from Hong Kong build their English language and leadership skills in the context of project-based learning. Special emphasis was placed on the study of literature and the exploration of problems confronting our world and our community in Hong Kong. Leadership training involved students in debate and persuasive public speaking exercises.
Sharing from S4A Eric Wong Shu Him & members
A Reflection on Leadership
Leadership can drive people crazy. No joke.
Leadership requires strictness. It also requires patience and kindness. You have to listen and be listened to. You have to encourage and discipline. A pile of contradictions. Such requirements make you think that you will have to be like the two-faced Roman god Janus to do all of those. To balance all those actions is hard. Really hard.
Leadership, after all, is the key to this programme, and we were expected to learn how to lead how to lead people throughout various activities. We were all strangers to each other at first, and it was, without a doubt, quite challenging. We all had our own way, and sometimes the result was quite a mess.
To lead is to inspire and to command, yet the latter does not appeal to most people, because it is not of their interests to be told what to do. However, we believe what a good leader should do is to know their team. Everybody is different, and this can be a good thing if we put it to use. That is, to synergize, as we have learnt very recently. We were told to build a tower out of a bunch of simple materials. We put our hands to work. All of us listened to everyone else’s idea and we reached a compromise. We followed the ideas and everyone had a job to do, some were rolling up newspapers, some were cutting duct tape, some were designing the EARTH flag. At the end, we had made a strong and beautiful tower, the strongest and nearly the highest among the four towers.
To some, it may be just a simple newspaper tower, but to us, it was a symbol of triumph, a masterpiece of our teamwork.
In July 2010, after passing a written test and an interview, our student Eric Wong Shu Him (4A) has been selected to participate in the English Language Leadership Program 2010 organized by Hong Kong International School at Tai Tam.
During the three-week program, gifted students from Hong Kong build their English language and leadership skills in the context of project-based learning. Special emphasis was placed on the study of literature and the exploration of problems confronting our world and our community in Hong Kong. Leadership training involved students in debate and persuasive public speaking exercises.
Sharing from S4A Eric Wong Shu Him & members
A Reflection on Leadership
Leadership can drive people crazy. No joke.
Leadership requires strictness. It also requires patience and kindness. You have to listen and be listened to. You have to encourage and discipline. A pile of contradictions. Such requirements make you think that you will have to be like the two-faced Roman god Janus to do all of those. To balance all those actions is hard. Really hard.
Leadership, after all, is the key to this programme, and we were expected to learn how to lead how to lead people throughout various activities. We were all strangers to each other at first, and it was, without a doubt, quite challenging. We all had our own way, and sometimes the result was quite a mess.
To lead is to inspire and to command, yet the latter does not appeal to most people, because it is not of their interests to be told what to do. However, we believe what a good leader should do is to know their team. Everybody is different, and this can be a good thing if we put it to use. That is, to synergize, as we have learnt very recently. We were told to build a tower out of a bunch of simple materials. We put our hands to work. All of us listened to everyone else’s idea and we reached a compromise. We followed the ideas and everyone had a job to do, some were rolling up newspapers, some were cutting duct tape, some were designing the EARTH flag. At the end, we had made a strong and beautiful tower, the strongest and nearly the highest among the four towers.
To some, it may be just a simple newspaper tower, but to us, it was a symbol of triumph, a masterpiece of our teamwork.