Reflections about the Leadership Workshop

As it's near the end of this semester, it's time for the year 1 potential students to apply for our HC family. In order to let them know more about HC, we held several promotion in this week, they were the leadership workshops and the HC sharing session. I feel really satisfied about this week and congratulate to all of our HC fellows for making the workshops fruitful and successful.

I was one of the coordinators of the 'IF' workshop and I had participated in preparing the theme and games of the workshop. Inspiration and facilitation are two ways that a leader should know well to lead. And our group wanted to deliver these two ideas to our little brothers and sisters by giving them chances to experience. We wanted to let the students think more, not just to teach them theories. Thus, we had prepared a lot of activities for them. And what I found from our workshop is that, some of the potential students are somehow better than us. They thought deeply and talked confidently. In some games they used methods that we had never thought of before. Their ideas were creative, not only could solve the problems, but also inspired me. I am glad to be their facilitator and I learnt much from them.

I remember in the beginning of the 'IF' workshop, my partner, Grace Lam, asked our members how they thought about us and HC. Their responses were quite surprising me. In their mind we were the best among the university and they couldn't reach us, so they felt a bit nervous in being with us. I didn't expect others to think like that. The reason might be that we HC seldom interact with the whole university. We are just busily doing our works and almost forget that we should open our doors to the world. Therefore, I think we should provide more chances to let others know more about us. Just as Dr. Udani always says, our blogs are the windows to the world; others are watching us. We should always update our blogs so that they could know how we are and what we are doing.

Although I was from the 'IF' group, I also joined the 'CAN' workshop. To me, their theme was a bit abstract. The three elements they wanted to send out were creative, attitude and network. However, my thought was same as one of the participants in this workshop. These are not only the qualities of a leader, but also the qualities of a moral person. And a leader at least should be a moral person. The workshop also brought out many theories about leadership, which, on the contrary, was totally different to the 'IF' workshop; they let students learn from theories. Remember that we were here to complete each others, not compete with others. The 'CAN' team complement our workshop. They had put their whole effort in preparing the workshop, and consumed much more time than our group. We should appreciate to them too. That's why I was there supporting them until the end.

In fact, I have taken part in organizing several activities before, such as the EME Day and DICOFA. Nevertheless, comparing the attitude of the students from joining the EME Day and the Leadership workshops, I could see that those joining the workshops were more passionate than those from the others. I think it is properly because of the objective. Students joining the EME Day and DICOFA aimed to get the prizes, while the students joining the workshops were eager to learn things from us. Attitude always affects others, and I feel very warm and happy from their attitudes. I think they did learn things from us and I hope we could give a good impression of HC to them.

Finally, I want to say thanks to all the HC staffs for supporting us; thanks to Dr. Udani for providing us these chances; thanks to all my classmate for holding these workshops successfully; and thanks to all the participants, I do learn and gain much from all of you. It would be one of my memorable experiences, which I think I couldn't express by using only words. I wish there will also be other leader workshops held by HC in the next year. Like what Vicky said, leadership workshop, pass it on. And it's only two weeks more until the deadline of applying for HC, let's welcome our little potential brothers and sisters to join us. Promote it, share it, and let them know it.