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There is always some pleasure achieved when one travels from their normal environment to a different place to break the monotony and learn more knowledge. This is exactly what I like most in my life. Well, I am a student leader in my school and this, calls for one to acquire leadership skills at all means. Last week, we had a sports competition in which I was the programmer and other responsibilities like discipline and organizing my team. The tournament took exactly five hours. To be a programmer in an event like this is not easy bearing in mind that I am just an infant in leadership. However, I do not complain because this position helped me learn more leadership skills that helped me build me as an aspiring leader. Thus, this helped in preparing me for future leadership. During this tournament, I learned several leadership skills like time management, confidence, and problem-solving and communication skills.

To begin with time management, time is an essential thing in our lives and once misused leads to a spoilt day and life (Ahmed and Bach 45). As a programmer, in any event, time management is the most important leadership such a person can have. Lack of this skill in leadership leads to poor leadership because time wasted cannot be recovered at any cost (Judith Glaser 60). Managing all these events and ensuring that the program was adhered to as planned was not an easy task to me. I had to develop a plan that would make sure that all the players are available at their place of the event at any time needed for their game. This included giving a stern warning to any team that was not adhering to the time allocated to them. It also included disqualifying some players and teams. This made players be more serious in the competition and ensure that they are at their place of their play whene3ver needed. This strategy, therefore, helped me learn how to manage my time properly. This was how I learned my first leadership skill during this event.

The second skill I learned was to be courageous. This position needed a firm person with unshakable courage (Ahmed and Bach 46). Dealing with the players and there coaches whenever disqualified was not easy. At first, I was afraid of how to face these people but then later I remembered that I am a leader and one of the qualities of a leader as I learn from the class was confidence. It was then that I realized that I needed to be bold and act as a leader (Muteswa 136). As a leader, one cannot be in agreement with all people. It is obvious that a group will be against you and another will support you. I just learned to know my place, and position in this event was to lead and so I learned how to gain confidence through all these interactions with players, coaches, and fans. This was how I learned my second leadership skill of confidence in this event.

My third skill to learn was problem-solving (Muteswa 137). In a place where there are two or more people interacting, it is obvious to expect disputes and disagreements. My event was not different either, these are some of the difficulties I encountered in this event. This was among players versus players, players, and referees, coaches versus referees and the spectators. This was not easy to handle and so I had to learn how to solve problems in a hated way. I really do not know how it happened but I only found myself solving problems and making peace. If it worked miraculously or I had the ability to solve the disputes and the fights I do not know. All I know is that from then and even today, I find it easy to solve problems despite its magnitude. This was the way the event helped me learn my skill of problem-solving.

My next skill to learn was communication skills (Ahmed and Bach 50). If you have ever been a programmer or even attended any event with a programmer, you would agree with me that communication skills are essential in that position. This was required from the very beginning of the event because to instruct and direct all the people present on the chronological order of events required a person with good communication skills (Judith Glaser 69). With poor communication skills, it is not easy to communicate properly with people. This, therefore, required me to be perfect in communication to ensure that the event was a success. Additionally, I have previously told you that I had issues with disputes and disagreements in the event. To solve these issues is required to have good communication skills that can allow him/her to communicate properly with all the involved parties and help create peace and harmony. Through solving these problems and being the programmer in the event, for the five hours enabled me to gain the skills of communication skills and this was how I became good in communication at all levels.

In conclusion, this sports competition helped me learn several leadership skills through the position offered to me. Some of these skills just to briefly mention them include time management which helped me ensure every activity was performed at its allocated time to avoid time wastage. Another skill was confidence which I learned through the whole process and all the position of a programmer held in the event. Next was problem-solving which I gained through solving of any dispute or disagreement that occurred. The last event was communication skills and this I in all activities of the day. I, therefore, sum up by saying that leadership is a journey and this was part of my journey in leadership skills.

Works Cited

Al Dawood Ahmed and Christian Bach. Major Traits/Qualities of Leadership, 2014 pg 47-52

Glaser, Judith E. Conversational intelligence: How great leaders build trust and get extraordinary results. Routledge, 2016.

Rudolph. P. T. Muteswa.Qualities of a Good Leader and the Benefits of Good Leadership to an Organization: A Conceptual Study, 2016. Pg 135-139