Expedition Log (Preface)

I have been leaders in many situations: dormitory head in junior-high dorm, tennis club leader in junior-high and high school, brass band leader in high school, and many many others in small projects.
When I recall anything about my leadership, I think of brass band, cuz I really worked hard and spent most of my time in it when I was the leader.
But I don't think I was a good leader.
Many of my effort turned fruitless.
I didn't know what to do when many quit brass band right after I became the leader.


I hope this class helps me analyze problems of my leadership :)



-What were the qualities that enabled you to succeed or persevere?

I love to work for others, and that is THE motivation of everything.
For example, I took 教育哲学概論(Intro. to Educational Philosophy) this term and it's gonna be REALLY hard, but I won't drop it because when I become a teacher, this hard experience WILL enable me to understand the children who can't understand anything in a class. (By not the content of this class, but the fact that I experienced a class I can't really understand)
I'm sure this character of mine, loving to work for others, helped me to do any work in the brass band to the end of my role.
But this also brought a problem... which is exactly the answer of the 2nd question.

-What was the nature of the teamwork that support that you were able to inspire? How did you work with others to achieve your goal?

Of course, I had many other small leaders like leader of management instrument, music score, each instrument, etc.
But I didn't really trust them, though most of them were my close friends, because it was far faster if I just do the works, not having the process to ask a specific person to do them, and also because I didn't feel bad to do a lot of work for others.
However, I'm sure that I should have trusted other leaders much more. that was far more ideal.
my work hid the teamwork and oneness of the brass band itself.

I cannot really answer the question, but I'm sure I need the team's support when I work as a leader.
well, the team needs to be trustworthy to be assumed to be able to achieve the work. and also, the leader should not ask for a really difficult thing to accomplish, for that might cause untrustworthiness. In that case, I think it's important to work TOGETHER and be interdependent :)