Who among you wants to be a leader?
That's good for you.
Me? I didn't want to be a leader. I am just a person who
goes with the flow.
But things changed when I took a risk to lead the biggest
organization for Indonesians in Poland. How did happen?
I decided to give my candidacy at the presidential election
of PPI Polandia (Indonesian Students Association in Poland) period 2020/2021,
because I like this organization and really hope that in the future it will
bring a more impactful effect on Indonesian students society in Poland.
Besides, during that time not many people were interested to take the risk. I
also thought that I would spend most of my time in Poland, therefore I would
like to be helpful to Indonesians here. Fyi, PPI Polandia is a branch of the
America-Europe Region of PPI, as well as a member of the World PPI or so-called
OISAA (Overseas Indonesian Students Association Alliance). After passing the
administration process, get to know session and open debate session,
fortunately, I elected with narrow results with my competitor.
In this organization, I learned many things, especially
about myself, how I think about the vision and mission of the organization,
clarifying it and maintaining excellent communications for every stakeholder. I
took the understanding your leadership quiz from this project and my result was
Altruistic which has 20 points. I think that this is accurate. I learned that
while I lead, I act like a friend with equality, without discriminating against
people based on their position. I tried to motivate them while they're too busy
with their study while managing time to PPI. I prioritize the discussion from
each person that attend the meeting to hear their aspirations and make them to
reality. My approach to every staff is personalized based on their needs and
behaviours in order to develop the organization. I try to ensure them that each
of the staff has an important position in their role and without them, this
organization will not work well. In the beginning, it was hard for me to manage
PPI because for us the past Memorandum of Association was not too clear to be
followed. Therefore, I asked for help from the social and culture officer
at Indonesian Embassy in Poland, as well
as the past PPI leader as the advisor. After that things went well. I set the
pattern of meeting so that each month we have a meeting with all the 32
members, while we have also a meeting with the core team consisting of 8
people. Actually, I was the head of public relations in PPI Polandia in 2018,
and there are lots of problems that need to be solved which is lack of meetings
and communication. I tried to solve this issue in my leadership era.
Along with my leadership, we made a breakthrough by
expanding PPI Polandia branches to 6 cities and making the system information
clearer for everyone. Also, PPI successfully maintains well relationships
between the Indonesian Embassy of Poland and related companies. Now Poland is
counted as the emerging destination chosen by hundreds of Indonesian students
who are here now.
There are so many leadership styles. The style of
leadership that I would like to cultivate is the style that has the lowest
score, such as the affiliative style. Proactively helping each other is one of
the examples to improve this type of style. I believe that applying the right
style at the right time is important. Each situation is different. We need to
pay attention to it and pick the right style. When PPI need to reach a
consensus in a short time, I tried to share my ideas instead of asking each
person and letting them vote on which one is the most chosen option.
To conclude, I believe that a successful leader is one that
learns how to lead in reality, therefore they can learn not only about others
but about themselves. I also believe that applying the right leadership style
at the right time is crucial.
I really like the quote from J. Oswald Sanders, "True
leadership is found in giving yourself in service to others, not in coaxing or
inducing others to serve you."
Thank you,
@TifaniHayyu
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