Leadership

Since I am just an intern in the office, there are not too much opportunities for me to show my leadership skills.

Fortunately,  the trainer divided all interns of MCLEAPS program into two groups to work on group projects. And she also asked us to select a leader to track the project and report to her once a week.

For a group work, leadership is important and also difficult. Since we are all full-time interns in different departments and working at different buildings, even cities, it is not easy to get together to discuss the project. The group chat and google doc became the best way for us to exchange ideas. Thus, it is really hard for the leader to track everyone’s work progress.

I am the person who care the progress so badly. If someone do not complete his/her portion on time, I will be very frustrated. According to some books, they divided leadership styles into several categories, such as bureaucratic leadership, charismatic leadership, servant leadership and transactional leadership. Each one has their own characteristics.  Thus, I think I might be the bureaucratic leader and always want to everyone follow the procedures. Once I was a leader in a group, I tried my best to set several procedures for them and track the process frequently. The result, as you can see, it was not good. The group members felt I was so annoying.  

So I believe every leadership style should not be isolated and should be combined according to your and your group member’s need.

I am hungry now and need fried chicken right now. I may continue this topic someday…..hah!