November 30, 2017
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| (Courtesy of LED 2017) |
The annual leadership training
joint-program between Faculty of Social and Political Science and School of
Information Science and Technology UPH, known as Leadership Exploration
Development (LED) 2017 was a cooperation program managed directly by four
major’s student association which are, International Relations and
Communication science under the Faculty of Social and Political Science,
Information Systems and Informatics Engineering under the School of Information
Science and Technology. With 42 total number of participants, this leadership
training was executed earlier this month on Dec 10th – Dec 12th
in Pelita Harapan University.
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| All Participants and Committees of LED 2017 (Courtesy of LED 2017) |
Leadership Exploration Development
(LED) 2017 is a basic leadership training conduct especially for the freshmen
and sophomore in these two faculty aims to accelerate the student’s potentials,
capacity, and awareness to become a future leader and to prepare themselves in
their active participation in the field of organization and other
non-academics activity such as student associations, campus committees, etc. This leadership training also provides a comprehensive and practical
substance to complement the student’s preparation in dealing with the
developing environment that requires their competency either to be a role model
in guiding people or to work as a team. This training program provides several
leadership materials arranged in accordance to the needs of students nowadays,
team-work building activity, also practical simulations with the organizational
system applied in UPH.
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| Desiree Roring (left), Nicholas (right)The Head and Vice of Committee (Courtesy of LED 2017) |
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| The Third Session of LED 2017 "Who Deserve To Be A Leader" (Courtesy of LED 2017) |
With total three days of execution, LED provides leadership material presented directly by UPH’s professional leadership trainer. These materials given gradually to the students within the three days, in order to build such comprehensive knowledge and understanding with holistic progression in preparing the participants with character and values needed to empower themselves as a future leader in each session. The session starts from the very basic materials, “Created Your Own Value” that raise the self-awareness and confidence of the students towards every single capability and potentials within themselves, followed by another applicable materials covers the qualities of leadership, strategic and obstacles, and fundamental values as servant and influential leader, ended with the fourth session, “A leader with vision of transformations” as the main session of LED 2017.
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| Team-Building Activity on LED 2017 (Courtesy of LED 2017) |
Going further, LED committee also
implement the materials given in practical way as the teamwork of the
participants also trained through the team building in form of out-bond, and
group project on talent show activity emphasizing on the activeness and teamwork
essentials. In technical matters towards the participant understanding on basic
requirement in conducting an event as a committee, the participants also
trained in the “Proposal Simulation” where they were required to gain all their
ideas in constructing the related event as the theme picked randomly by each
group. Here, they implement their understanding in creating the proposal
following the bureaucracy system applied in any organization and committee in
UPH, reflected the real way of the whole-progress in executing a program or
event.
However, Desiree added that the four months
preparation is quite limited, it became such challenges to lead the committee
in arranging the substance, event, publication and all aspects to run this LED.
It requires double effort to achieve sufficient result in accordance to the
goal of this training. Especially when it has to deal with the different
background of each committee that came from four different majors. But, in
other way she was beyond grateful to have the opportunity to lead this program.
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| The Best Participants of LED 2017 (From left to right: Amelia, Jessie, Jericho, Ferinzhy with the presidents of Student Association from each major) (Courtesy of LED 2017) |
And as there was one quote saying that “the results will not betray the effort” it is the same here. Compliments and positive feedback abounds LED 2017. Jessie Graciella, communication science students who took the best participants award as the representative of her major extended her gratitude to be involved in this program. “I got a lot of lesson here, from the substance and team-building, I truly experienced how I should empower myself to be a leader. This training is really impactful for me to prepare myself in joining the student organizations, as well as it creates me the visionary way of thinking and better self-efficacy in maximizing my capabilities.” Moreover, Amelia Kaheja as the best participant from Information Systems agrees upon Jessie statement that she feel equipped through this training. Its broader her knowledge towards leadership as the guideline to involved in any organization, as it also broader her connection with new friends coming from other faculty.
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| Mr. Binsar Sihite M.Th The Speaker of "Servant Leadership" Session (Courtesy of Eka Tumiwa) |
Even though UPH conduct many
leadership programs, appreciation towards this year LED and the committees as
the project officer keep coming from many party. Mr. Binsar Sihite M.Th, a
professional youth leadership trainer, as one of the speaker in LED appreciates
the great hard-work of the committee in realizes this program, “The committee
has done such a great work. This program results greater changes of the
participants, as what I see in some of my students after they join LED. The
role of LED is important and can be used as a media to create good servant
leaders in our campus which will contributes as great leaders in the future.”
With this great achievement of LED
2017, the effort made to conduct this program is successfully landed to the
target. With the impact of this leadership training many students were empower
to be a future leader for a better tomorrow. Hopes are coming from the
committees, participants and lectures that this achievement of the role of LED
will not stop here, but to be continue with better improvements as a tool to
results new leaders of UPH in the upcoming generations. - Eka
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