The Commerce Society, Hans Raj College organized a Seminar
on “Leadership” for the first year students .
Date: October 18,
2013.
Venue: Seminar
Room, College premises
Time: 12:20 P.M.
Topic: Seminar on
‘Leadership’
The seminar was conducted by Professor Jean Saldanha,
Faculty IBS Gurgaon. She holds a long experience
in teaching and its effect could be felt in her words. Prof Saldanha was
welcomed by our convener Ms Beauty Dash and other teachers present.
As soon as the seminar started the professor asked the
students to give examples of leaders
from different fields. All the students enthusiastically listed out famous
leaders like Indira Gandhi, Aung San Suu Kyi, Sachin Tendulkar among others.
To make the seminar even more interactive Professor Saldanha
also asked the students to illustrate some qualities of a leader like humility,
integrity, calmness etc. She also displayed a power point presentation to make
the session more interesting for all students. Professor Saldanha then carried
out a unique activity to stress that leadership is a complex process. The activity
involved the students to explain one quality of a leader and illustrate it by a
live example, while tying a thread to their finger. At the end of this
activity, a web of thread had been formed in the centre of the room which
depicted how leadership is a complex phenomenon.
This was followed by a quick round of debate where students
debated on the topic ‘Are leaders born
or made’. Two teams were made, where three students were randomly picked for
each team. They enthusiastically spoke and finally, the winners were chosen.
The team supporting the notion ‘leaders are made not born’ won by a close
margin.
In all, the session was very interactive and gave an insight
to students as to how one can be a good leader. The seminar was a huge success
due to the hard work of the society members and guidance of our teachers. We
wish to organise more such successful events in the future.
-By Aakriti Mehra
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