Opinion (01) : Leadership in Student Organization

Leadership is the important thing that is the key of a leader to lead an organization, community or their selves. In student organization, leadership is as the material of student for training how to lead an organization well. As we know that organization for student in school is not the real application organization in the work world. Student just practice to manage and handle an organization. They learn about having good leadership. Then, they learn about knowing the real fact of differences character in this world by joining organization in their school. Although, they still learn and practice about leadership but they should know well about the implied meaning of leadership. The reason is that they do socialization with someone else in their organization. Accordingly, understanding and learning about leadership well is the obligation to a student.

Leadership is not only leading some community or organization as well as possible but also learning about the real meaning of our life such as leading ourselves to be the real person. Everyone should have good leadership because we are as the leader of our life. Whatever our condition, situation, illustration, weakness and happiness, we should remember that we are as the real leader for ourselves. We can do everything that is positive or negative thing in our life but we have something different in our life that is leadership. It depends on us; we will lead ourselves in the dark condition or light condition. Our God has already given perfect thing for us and it is real thing that we should realize it. Some people don’t realize about it. Perhaps, the condition of everyone is different and the destiny is always walking with different way from our thinking. Based on our leadership, we can manage our life well in our daily life. Therefore, there are many institutions or organizations have already held leadership seminar or training. The purpose of these activities is making a good leader for the future because good leader will build amazing world to be better than now. According to these explanations, we know well if leadership is very useful for our life, moreover for the influence of school organization.

On the other side, planting leadership since a child is the good choice for us. Actually, we don’t know before if we have already learned about leadership since a child. We learn about doing and managing something from our parents since a child. Then, our parents always try to educate their children well by giving the best education, training, course and necessity. Fortunately, these things have given different effect from the first intention. By doing these activities, our parents have already given the training and educating about leadership. When we were a child, we did simple thing well and learned about new thing by the instruction of our parents. We could do our daily life by ourselves as soon as possible. We could manage our activity although that was not perfect yet but our parents always guided us to do it as well as before. That is the example of our leadership when we were a child. We don’t realize about it but it is the real thing that we have already done in the pass. Therefore, planting our leadership when we were in child moment is the natural proses that we have already done it.

According to these explanations before, the pre leader or student should know about the criterions of a good leader. There are several criterias to be good a leader. It will give many advantages for their leadership in school organization. Moreover, they are as students of school and it will give many sciences and knowledge’s about something new different in their life. It will be the key for starting their organization skill here after.

The first criterion is a leader should have leadership mind set. Every student can be a leader but we should know that all of students don’t have leadership mind set. Many students get failed when they are being a leader. The reason is their mind set is not really suitable for being a leader. The leader should have more confident, positive thinking and never give up whatever and however their condition. Based on good mind set, a leader can lead their community or organization well than a leader doesn’t have it. The second criterion is intention. Intention is the basic thing that should have by every leader in this world. Everything will get the best or bad result, it depends on the intention. Starting everything when we want to do something by having a good intention is the best way for us. Moreover, it will be the best choice for a leader. Besides, a leader will not be comfortable in their leadership, if they don’t have enough intention in the beginning of their leadership. According to these explanations, leadership mind set and intention is very useful and important to every leader.

The third criterion is being guard for their members. The real leader is good guard for their members when they are in the leader’s leadership. The reason is some of leader doesn’t have good enough guard for their members. Many members don’t satisfice with their leader because the leader makes distance with their members. The members will think that their leader is arrogant and unfriendly. This is the serious problem between the leader and members. As we know that an organization or a community will not perfect without a good relationship between them. The negative effect of this problem is the work program of an organization or a community will not be running well. As long as this problem will be the big problem, such as miss communication and miss understanding when they work together. According to these effects, the leader should realize about this problem. They just keep their guard for their members. In addition, if the leader hasn’t had good enough skill to guard the members, they can learn the way to guard members by joining training, seminar or learning from the experience of other people and leader.

            The fourth criterion is responsibility. Responsibility is the first aspect that will be looked from a leader. Responsibility is very important when a leader leads. For the example, if the leader doesn’t have responsibility, the leader will run away if there is problem in an organization or a community. Besides, the good leader will finish their problem in their organization or community and look for the good way for maintaining themselves and their members from the problem. Responsibility is easy to be said but in the fact, it is difficult to be done. Specifically for a leader, they should have good enough experience about leading an organization or community because responsibility cannot be got easy by everyone. In the fact, this is not easy because we can get responsibility based on our experience in our life. Everyone has different experience about their life although they are as family or friend. Therefore, the step of responsibility everyone is different. In this case, the leader needs more responsibility than other people because leader has members which are in their leadership.

The fifth criterion is having authority. A leader should have well authoritative because they should keep their attitude in public and their life. All of about their life will be seen by all of people because they are as leader. Everything that they do will be attended by their members. The members will follow what the leader do and show. Therefore, an authoritative is very important for a leader. Not only in the formal situation but also in the real life or their daily life. If the leader doesn’t have well authoritative, their members will not respect to the leader. It will be a problem when the members don’t respect to the leader. All of thing that the leader says, they will not believe and understand well. It will be the dangerous moment in the leadership of a leader. Furthermore, a leader should trainee and exercise for themselves to get well authoritative. 

The sixth criterion is trustworthy. In every agency and organization, trustworthy is important aspect that should be had by a leader. The leader should be honest in everything that they do. Someone else will get comfortable and trust to a leader by doing everything with one key, honest. If someone do mistake by doing dishonest, someone else will not give their trust to someone. Everyone will be difficult to get trust from other people. Moreover a leader, they will be difficult to get trust from their members. The leader should give the real provident to their members. After that, the members will give appreciate to the leader and they will believe to the leader. Practicing this aspect is not easy, but we can try to do this aspect from simple thing in our life. Specifically for a leader, they should try this aspect in their daily life because trustworthy is everything in this life. Not only in the leader’s life but also the real life of us, trustworthy is the sensitive aspect. We can get many advantages by doing it, but we can lose everything in our life if we cannot be trustworthy.

The seventh criterion is discipline. Discipline is very necessary for a leader because disciple is simple thing that gives big effect if we leave it.  We will lose the important moment in our organization or community by doing undisciplined. For example, if a leader doesn’t have discipline and a leader should attend an important meeting. They will be lost that important meeting, and the partner will be disappointed to the leader. Then, the members will follow this undisciplined also. They will think, if their leader does it and what for they do good action but their leader is not. An organization or a community will not run well if this thing is not be done by a leader. Besides, they will be finished in the middle of way and bankrupt. Then, they will be difficult to get new members because based on the historical of that organization or community is not good enough. Whatever the condition of the organization or community, it can be small or big, famous or infamous, rich or enrich, the important thing that should be given more attention is about discipline. The leader should begin this discipline first or they should be the pioneer of this aspect. Then the following time, it will be followed by their members. This is the positive thing that is very useful for all of people in this life. Therefore, the leader should practice this aspect in their leadership.

The eighth is loyalist. A loyalist is the following aspect that is very important to be had by a leader. It means a leader doesn’t make a fair to other organization or community although the leader has more than one organization or community that they join. The leader has an obligation to be loyal in the organization or community that they are be leader because leader is everything for it. According to that explanation, a leader may join more than one organization or community, but they should be able to manage their time and attention to both of them. It is not easy but this is the obligation for leader. The best way for a leader is joining more than organization or community but they are just being a leader for one in both of them. Then, they can be a member or other functionaries in these other organization or community without giving bad effect to both of them.

The final criterion is good attitude. Attitude is the key of all of things that we do. Bad attitude will give impact to them who apply it. Everyone should keep on their attitude and they should remember where they are now. The reason is that we should know well where we must do this act and that act. Especially, a leader should give more attention to their attitude. Moreover, if they are as student and they have been attended by their parents and teacher. Therefore, this point is very sensitive thing that the leader should understand well.

Those are the criterions of a leader to have a good leadership in their organization or community. Those are very useful to apply their leadership in their school organization. Specifically, it will be their material for training about leadership. It will give advantages for themselves and their school not only for nowadays but also in the future of their life.