In order to provide a flavour of how to become a competent student leader, the below outlines may help.

Strategic Management

Strategic Management is important in ensuring your project or organisation is successful. It is divided into 3 parts:

1. Understanding Strategic Positioning: Understand exactly where your organisation is at this moment in time. Be clear on its strengths and weaknesses. Understand the environment it works in. Example:
   • How many people do you have?
   • How committed and experienced are your team?
   • How much finance do you have? How much and how quickly can you raise finance?

2. Exploring Strategic Choices: Once you understand exactly where you are and what you are, you can explore the practical choices of progress. Pick the best option for maximum impact. Example:
   • Expand via events
   • Collaboration with other societies
   • Weekly meetings / Monthly meetings

3. Strategy into Action: Turning philosophy into reality is the stage which many fail to do. Without this stage, your strategy will never leave the world of philosophy and you would have wasted hours of planning for nothing to happen. Example:
   • Organisational structure must be efficient
   • Set realistic targets
   • Expect internal and external change to occur and manage change accordingly

Organisational Management

As a general guide of how to make your society or project function at the optimum level the following 4 points can be adhered to:

1. Clear Ideas: The organisation must have clear ideas of what it wants to achieve. The ideas must be clear, focused and agreed upon throughout the organisation.

2. Clear Method: The way to transform the thoughts into reality must be determined by a clear and practical strategy that takes into account all the internal and external factors affecting the project or organisation.

3. Quality Membership: The members must possess full awareness of the situation and a well-focussed determination to succeed.

4. Organisational Structure: Every committee member needs to understand how their role is valued and required for the success of the organisation. If permanent success is targeted, then it should be noted that temporary bonds between the members will not achieve permanent success.

Human Resource Management

Human Resources are the key to success. Without a decent team and without a decent manager who supports the personal development of each member of the team, nothing will move forward.

Motivation can come from many ways.

Further elaboration to follow soon..

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