Monday, March 24, 2008

A New Approach To Strategic Leadership ( Zealous Youth Club)

A traditional preoccupation with the immediate and short term on the part of club leader has recently given way to recognition of the need for, importance of, strategic leadership. However, we always expressed a number of concerns about recent thinking on strategic leadership during a "storm" ( arguement between members) . Therefore, we must focus on the view of club vision and improvement planning that are sufficient and will deliver club improvement. Over-reliance on short-term , spontaneous approaches to attract members among teens is in fact symptomatic to make connection with them. Vision is not enough. Strategic leadership is the simple but profound realization that difficult if not impossible to act strategically in publicity.

An emphasis placed on a learning centred and leaner-centred approach that focuses on the core of technology, organising events, commuciaton skills and managent of club is important. We have many stimulation for the necessity for longer time horizons ( beyond three and five years) and shorter-term strategic flexibility. Consistency portrays a view of strategy that takes account of the tradisional organizations fallibilities and at same time offers a design for successful club. Our perspective of strategic leadership highlights the cultural in shaping strategy and leadership.
If stragetic thinking is to engage with the concept of club objective aimed for teens, then it is essential to distinguish the various organizational elements that comprise the club. The following elements are identified :

. learning processes and experinces
. teaching appoaches and strategies
. technology, especially Power Point ( computers )
. organization structures
. human resources
. finicial resources
. leadership and organisation culture

The above list may not be comprehensive, but it includes the most important elements. While they are presented seperately, in reality, just as in any system, they are functionally interdependent.

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

My Experience In Zealous

When our club first started as a martial art class, I became immediately curious about it. I had just been introduced to join in, thanks to my friend, Felix Ti ( now as Captain in this club). My first reaction was excited and would be a great experience for me. Every great achievement has a humble start. Our martial class started with only 5 students. However, the number of students increased throughout months. After having a series of discussions and meetings, we all agreed to found Zealous Youth Club.

A successful club should has MVP, that is Mission, Vision and Performance. Our mission is to reach out teenagers' heart and solving their problems. Our club has 4 objectives :promote martial art, 2nd home for teenagers, develop social, management & leadership skills and promote happiness. We want to empower and make teenagers happy. Hopefuly, our club will leave an amazing impact on the lively teenagers'mind. In this sense, I congratulate our founder, Michael Ti Seng Aun for very commendable effort in developing an original and innovative strategics for our club. He also taught us how do make a presentation by using Microsoft Power Point. The impact of the ideas and technology in presenting our club's mission and vision are more effective. We have varius departments such as IT, Human Resources, Executive,Creative and Marketing & Publicity to give teenagers a explosure in this various fields.

We always pay attention on our dominant position and peformance. We had been organize camps and martial art demo to give a organize experience and confidence to our members. We create a stimulation at every second week.This to provide a medium for learning leadership skill and courage to encounter the real world in promoting our club. the stimulation such as job interview, flyer making, computer presentation, giving a speech on promoting our club etc. We already organize a opening ceremony to give approachment to all our member and non-member. We got a lot of good feedback on this opening ceremony. We also got many support from parents and sponser after this event.

Finally, we know the opportunity,performance and agreement are importance in running a club. I wish this club will very success that it richly deserves.