Being a leader, it’s really important to have good time-management skills. As a leader, there will be tons of different assignments that come at the same time. I need to manage time spent on each of them. Besides working, I also should be able to balance my social life and work as well as my personal life. However, I recently feel overwhelming when exams, social events and extracurricular activities come together. When different tasks challenge me at the same time, I don’t have the preparations how to balance them and finish them the best I can. I admit that I am easily distracted when I want to focus on certain tasks. I am easily stressful when everything comes at the same moment. However, I believe my change will start today by creating my learning goal for the Leadership Certificate program.
Improve time-management skill
First of all, I decide to write down my appointment schedule right after I get the confirmations from my dates. Forgetting an appointment or deadline always disorganizes my timetable. It’s easy to forget something if I don’t write them down right away. Instead of creating the schedule at the end of the day, I decide to be efficient and write my schedule right away after I make an appointment with someone. This helps me organize my time schedule daily and prepare me a planned day. Moreover, It’s impossible to finish big tasks in a short limited of time. Distributing the tasks into different amount of short challenges will make the tasks easier. For example, if I can do the practicing questions two weeks before the accounting exam, I won’t feel overwhelming while everyone is stressed about the big amount of practicing questions before the exam. My measurement of this goal is to finish all the accounting practicing questions before the week of our next midterm.
Learn to distribute workload
I want to become the leader who knows how to distribute workload to the members instead of finishing them myself. As a responsible leader, I try to finish the task with the best quality. In order to achieve the best result, I always make sure everything is fine and supervise myself. However, being the leader, I need to trust others and assign tasks to them.
How to achieve my goals
My practical method to finish this goal is to ask the alumni or my friends if they have met the similar situations before and how they overcame this problem. People who experienced such problem before might already found the solution. It’s good for me to consult them for their advice. Moreover, I need to pay more attention to my followers and find their strengths. Assigning the right person to the right tasks is one of the most efficient ways in team-management. For example, my teammates and I are hosting a leadership conference. If a person is good at making new friends and naturally energetic, I will let him/ her become the “first person” who greets the participants. If my another teammate is good at organizing and planning, I will let him/her to take charge of name check in. By utilizing my followers’ strengths and letting them do the “right” things they are good at, I am sure I can lead a better and more efficient team instead of doing everything myself and don’t trust other people. How I measure my achievement of this goal is to follow up with my followers’ feelings. By communicating with them effectively about their feelings working in my team, I will know what kind of tasks they want to do and how much they learn from working in this team.
Improve time-management skill
First of all, I decide to write down my appointment schedule right after I get the confirmations from my dates. Forgetting an appointment or deadline always disorganizes my timetable. It’s easy to forget something if I don’t write them down right away. Instead of creating the schedule at the end of the day, I decide to be efficient and write my schedule right away after I make an appointment with someone. This helps me organize my time schedule daily and prepare me a planned day. Moreover, It’s impossible to finish big tasks in a short limited of time. Distributing the tasks into different amount of short challenges will make the tasks easier. For example, if I can do the practicing questions two weeks before the accounting exam, I won’t feel overwhelming while everyone is stressed about the big amount of practicing questions before the exam. My measurement of this goal is to finish all the accounting practicing questions before the week of our next midterm.
Learn to distribute workload
I want to become the leader who knows how to distribute workload to the members instead of finishing them myself. As a responsible leader, I try to finish the task with the best quality. In order to achieve the best result, I always make sure everything is fine and supervise myself. However, being the leader, I need to trust others and assign tasks to them.
How to achieve my goals
My practical method to finish this goal is to ask the alumni or my friends if they have met the similar situations before and how they overcame this problem. People who experienced such problem before might already found the solution. It’s good for me to consult them for their advice. Moreover, I need to pay more attention to my followers and find their strengths. Assigning the right person to the right tasks is one of the most efficient ways in team-management. For example, my teammates and I are hosting a leadership conference. If a person is good at making new friends and naturally energetic, I will let him/ her become the “first person” who greets the participants. If my another teammate is good at organizing and planning, I will let him/her to take charge of name check in. By utilizing my followers’ strengths and letting them do the “right” things they are good at, I am sure I can lead a better and more efficient team instead of doing everything myself and don’t trust other people. How I measure my achievement of this goal is to follow up with my followers’ feelings. By communicating with them effectively about their feelings working in my team, I will know what kind of tasks they want to do and how much they learn from working in this team.