Leadership qualities

**wannabemedic321** · 18-02-2010, 02:22 AM

What are some ways to show leadership qualities, apart from sports.

Does leadership qualities just refer to positions of responsibility?

**terrified_tony** · 18-02-2010, 04:05 AM

To me leadership qualities and leadership are two different things.
Leadership is shown by activities like sport and the like but the qualities of leadership are confidence or decision making amongst others.
You might not have been a leader, not everyone gets the chance but you have to show you have the potential.
So giving examples of how you have good communication skills would be better and show more than simply saying you were a team captain.
Being fair, you might have been a bloody useless captain!

**minnako** · 21-02-2010, 06:57 PM

I think they mean any time you're making decisions and delegating and organising other people is leadership.

So, you can show leadership through running clubs or societies, through doing D of E, through helping run a charity event or school play or school newspaper. Head girls and head boys may use leadership skills. If you do volunteering (or work), you may be asked to lead newer volunteers or work in teams. Every time you're doing a group project in class and you find yourself emailing or calling people up to make sure they get their part of the work done, you're showing leadership skills. You don't need to have been in a position of great responsibility, merely to have been interacting with people and have taken the lead, even if only for a particular event.

**minnako** · 21-02-2010, 06:58 PM

I think they mean any time you're making decisions and delegating and organising other people is leadership.

So, you can show leadership through running clubs or societies, through doing D of E, through helping run a charity event or school play or school newspaper. Head girls and head boys may use leadership skills. If you do volunteering (or work), you may be asked to lead newer volunteers or work in teams. Every time you're doing a group project in class and you find yourself emailing or calling people up to make sure they get their part of the work done, you're showing leadership skills. You don't need to have been in a position of great responsibility, merely to have been interacting with people and have taken the lead, even if only for a particular event.

**Rippy** · 22-02-2010, 02:21 AM

positions of responsibilty would be a good way I suppose. Stuff like being a prefect, running a society etc.

Do remember that universities probably won't care exactly what you showed leadership qualities in. You wouldn't even have to be president of a society or anything, you would just need a couple of examples of when you showed leadership. After all, I'm sure universiites would understand that some schools give more opportunities than others to get positions of responsibility with various sports teams/prefect systems etc.

**Gizmo says -** · 25-02-2010, 09:10 PM

apparently they dont score for far more difficult activities, such as raising a family, paying the bills and maintaining the troops over in bosnia after a shell attack.
such is the wonder of university admissions....

**never_too_late** · 26-02-2010, 01:55 PM

Originally Posted by Gizmo says -

apparently they dont score for far more difficult activities, such as raising a family, paying the bills and maintaining the troops over in bosnia after a shell attack.
such is the wonder of university admissions....

Brilliant t'aint it?!

**Adchurch** · 01-03-2010, 05:48 AM

Originally Posted by Gizmo says -

apparently they dont score for far more difficult activities, such as raising a family, paying the bills and maintaining the troops over in bosnia after a shell attack.
such is the wonder of university admissions....

Gizmo your input on these forums is brilliant - I love it.