🗣️🦁National Young Leaders Day 2019🦁🗣️

🗣️🦁National Young Leaders Day 2019🦁🗣️

IALA: What makes an AWESOME and GREAT Leader

Kia Ora, Malo E Lelei, Talofa Lava and greetings to you all! Welcome back to my blog! I know I have not blogged in a long time but I am willing to have the courage to be able to blog again! Today was an AWESOME day for us student leaders of TPS cause we got the opportunity to go to the National Young Leaders Conference... FOR FREE! I had a really awesome time and I cannot wait to tell you all about it.

This event was held in the Manukau Vodafone Pass Center and was hosted by Liz Alexander and Phil Baker. This event is the

Attitude

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There was a whakatauki for this years event and that is:

HE AHA TE KAI A TE RANGATIRA?

HE KORERO, HE KORERO, HE KORERO

What is the food of a leader?

It is Conversations.

This event was really packed but I loved just being in the atmosphere and also just seeing a lot of other GREAT leaders from a lot of different schools. This is a leadership event where students and leaders all around New Zealand are able to come together and learn about what being a leader is and how to be a good one. It's not like school where you have one teacher just talking and talking to you but there is a variety of different people that are known as leaders all around New Zealand. These guest speakers come in and talk to us about how they're leaders and what has helped them become one.

There were 5 guest speakers today and they were Christian Gallen, Hana Tapiata, Ronnie Taulafo, Dr Lehan Stemmet and Kings. I was quite familiar with Ronnie and Kings but I was looking forward to learning more about them all.

My highlight of the day was actually just being at the event. I think that having this opportunity really pushed me and encouraged me to improve and be the best leader I could ever be! If I had to pick one highlight it would be having the opportunity to go up on stage and thank one of the many people I look up to, Ronnie Taulafo. I was honoured to give him the gift and give him a BIG hug of appreciation.

I didn’t have a favourite speaker but I know that they were all able to teach me something and also inspire me with everything they said. I learned a lot today and if I could put it all in one then we’ll be here for a long time because I just can’t choose!

One thing that was really inspiring to me though is a quote that was given by Dr Lehan Stemmet. This quote is:

Change is inevitable, Growth is optional.

This means that change is unavoidable and it may not be easy but Growth is optional. So what this all basically means is you can choose to worry about changing and how you can avoid it but you can’t or you can choose to grow and become a better leader than you already are.

One thing out of all the things I learned today is that there are two differences to listening.

One of them is you can just listen to something and hear random sounds or you can listen to UNDERSTAND & LEARN.

I think this is really important because someone could be talking to you and could possibly be telling you something you have wanted to know about but if you’re pretending to listen you’re just hearing random noises but if you’re actually listening then you are listening to understand. I think this is really important because it helps show others around you that you are a good leader and you care about others opinion. (This was a message from Hana Tapiata)

I think that something I can do to help me be a good leader and to make the world a better place is to focus on the things I do have instead of focus on the things I don’t have. I think if I do this and inspire others to do this as well it’ll help us all avoid jealousy and instead be able to learn something from it.

Here are some notes I wrote down in my book during today's conference:

Notes:

• Communicate to lead
• Communicate to connect
• To be a LEADER you are a LION
• Change is inevitable
• Growth is optional
• Acceptance
• Respect
• Appreciation
• Not for what they do, but for who they are.
• Use FERNS to make a trail so people who wanna follow you are able to follow the trail you have made. This is creating a Legacy.
• We is more important than Me
• The RIGHT thing isn’t always the EASY thing, but the EASY thing isn’t always the RIGHT thing.
• Korero - Listen
• Korero - Learn
• Korero - Lead

I really enjoyed my time today and I am sooooo grateful for the opportunity! Thank you for reading! Bye :)