Sokchea SAING conducted Leadership courses at Rudi Boa Center
This article describes the activities which gives recommendations to the leadership students at Boueng Kak Lake, who graduated on August 20, 2007
At Rudi Boa Center I presented two courses. The first course, “Leadership Development Skill Classes”, was held between 12th March, 2007 and 27th May, 2007 and the second course, “Leadership in Action”, was held between 18th June, 2007 and 8th August, 2007.
I planned to teach a course called Job Seeking Strategy, which is a training program of Bridges Across Borders, in order to develop the leader through youth life in Cambodia. We know that everything has a starting point, t
he future will happen because of what started. A good start will bring a good future but in contrast, it could end up quite differently. Country director David Pred stated at a ceremony “In my life I had two choices: First a good way and the second a bad way, but I selected a good way for my life”. From this statement, I began to question why it was he selected the good way when he was young. There are a lot of Khmer youth who do not have choice, planning, or goals in their life. And they especially do not know seem to understand their own talent and skills.
In leadership class, we started with some questions about knowing yourself and who you are: Who am I? Where am I from? Where should I go? What should I do when I get there? Who is the leader? What should I do in order to be a good leader? What characteristics should a leader have? What kinds of conditions should I have? How do I train to become a strong leader?
There are points that we gave them to practice in this case study. For the first hour, all students joined to make the rules and regulations for the class. One student came in front of the white board to write and the other students called out their suggestions. They challenged each other with what they were saying, and the writer had difficulty following their speech. All their ideas were really good such as: come to study early, tolerance, and to ask each other questions.
Presentation:
Students must answer three questions, which are related to the goal of life, life management, and their lead of life. I always give the students homework and the next day two or three students present in front of the class. After they finished, their classmate could ask questions and give them some feedback. I saw nearly all the students were shy, complicated, and forgot everything. Some students practiced at home in order to do well. Miss Bopha desired for several days to present. She sweated and trembled, but she tried to be brave to answer the difficult questions from her classmates.
Mr. Net Kosal was a freshman student at the National Institute of Business and he gave a good presentation. This was because he managed it well and he explained his plan for life, goals for the future, and his daily execution. Through the presentation, nearly all of the students developed a clear plan that before they had never thought about.
Group Discussion:
Each lesson always had a group discussion where we divided everybody into smaller groups, to make the discussion easier. Each group had a representative to present the group ideas, and then other groups asked questions. Even though some of the students never discuss their ideas in the big group, I saw that they showed their ideas and could answer the questions very excellent. Sometimes the marvelous answers and questions came from their mouths.
Mr. Sambath told me that his parents did not concern about his study and sometimes he felt hopeless by himself. When the class breaks, he always took his story to discuss with me, and he promised that he will try to study until he got the number one student in the class. Sometimes Mr. Sambath studied without any time to eat food, and was a silent person who lacked confidence in the class. Now, Sambath is a sociable person with good communication skills and has the confidence to present in front of the white board and class.
Test:
When we finished the course, all the students had to do a test to get the certification. The students think a certificate is very important because they see it as a successful sign of study as well as being useful for job seeking. There were three main questions, and an extra one - which connected the feeling the students experienced after they had finished the course. One table had only two people with a different test. It was a wonderful sight after they finished this course. A new group of leaders for the community has now emerged who are brave to say what is true, and to do the right thing without being afraid and finding things difficult. Mr. Sambath told me that now he knows how to manage the goal of his life and to face the problems.
This is the letter of one my students, written on August 12, 2007 during graduated leadership class by the full meaning below:
Mss Meng Ratana
The advantage that I get from leadership class is improving my character. Before, I looked down on my friend because he believed different religion from me. One day, my friend invited me to join his religious ceremony. In the ceremony, I said badly to him that you wasted my time to come here; I didn’t believe another religion beside mine. Since that, we have never talked to each other.
This article describes the activities which gives recommendations to the leadership students at Boueng Kak Lake, who graduated on August 20, 2007
At Rudi Boa Center I presented two courses. The first course, “Leadership Development Skill Classes”, was held between 12th March, 2007 and 27th May, 2007 and the second course, “Leadership in Action”, was held between 18th June, 2007 and 8th August, 2007.
I planned to teach a course called Job Seeking Strategy, which is a training program of Bridges Across Borders, in order to develop the leader through youth life in Cambodia. We know that everything has a starting point, t
he future will happen because of what started. A good start will bring a good future but in contrast, it could end up quite differently. Country director David Pred stated at a ceremony “In my life I had two choices: First a good way and the second a bad way, but I selected a good way for my life”. From this statement, I began to question why it was he selected the good way when he was young. There are a lot of Khmer youth who do not have choice, planning, or goals in their life. And they especially do not know seem to understand their own talent and skills.In leadership class, we started with some questions about knowing yourself and who you are: Who am I? Where am I from? Where should I go? What should I do when I get there? Who is the leader? What should I do in order to be a good leader? What characteristics should a leader have? What kinds of conditions should I have? How do I train to become a strong leader?
There are points that we gave them to practice in this case study. For the first hour, all students joined to make the rules and regulations for the class. One student came in front of the white board to write and the other students called out their suggestions. They challenged each other with what they were saying, and the writer had difficulty following their speech. All their ideas were really good such as: come to study early, tolerance, and to ask each other questions.
Presentation:
Students must answer three questions, which are related to the goal of life, life management, and their lead of life. I always give the students homework and the next day two or three students present in front of the class. After they finished, their classmate could ask questions and give them some feedback. I saw nearly all the students were shy, complicated, and forgot everything. Some students practiced at home in order to do well. Miss Bopha desired for several days to present. She sweated and trembled, but she tried to be brave to answer the difficult questions from her classmates.
Mr. Net Kosal was a freshman student at the National Institute of Business and he gave a good presentation. This was because he managed it well and he explained his plan for life, goals for the future, and his daily execution. Through the presentation, nearly all of the students developed a clear plan that before they had never thought about.
Group Discussion:
Each lesson always had a group discussion where we divided everybody into smaller groups, to make the discussion easier. Each group had a representative to present the group ideas, and then other groups asked questions. Even though some of the students never discuss their ideas in the big group, I saw that they showed their ideas and could answer the questions very excellent. Sometimes the marvelous answers and questions came from their mouths.
Mr. Sambath told me that his parents did not concern about his study and sometimes he felt hopeless by himself. When the class breaks, he always took his story to discuss with me, and he promised that he will try to study until he got the number one student in the class. Sometimes Mr. Sambath studied without any time to eat food, and was a silent person who lacked confidence in the class. Now, Sambath is a sociable person with good communication skills and has the confidence to present in front of the white board and class.
Test:
When we finished the course, all the students had to do a test to get the certification. The students think a certificate is very important because they see it as a successful sign of study as well as being useful for job seeking. There were three main questions, and an extra one - which connected the feeling the students experienced after they had finished the course. One table had only two people with a different test. It was a wonderful sight after they finished this course. A new group of leaders for the community has now emerged who are brave to say what is true, and to do the right thing without being afraid and finding things difficult. Mr. Sambath told me that now he knows how to manage the goal of his life and to face the problems.
This is the letter of one my students, written on August 12, 2007 during graduated leadership class by the full meaning below:
Mss Meng Ratana
The advantage that I get from leadership class is improving my character. Before, I looked down on my friend because he believed different religion from me. One day, my friend invited me to join his religious ceremony. In the ceremony, I said badly to him that you wasted my time to come here; I didn’t believe another religion beside mine. Since that, we have never talked to each other.
After I study leadership class, I realize that I would not say those words to my friend because each religion leads people to be good. The words that I said to him were wrong. This class is very good for me and the country, I can participate in society. In the future, I will be a good leader of a company or my family, but I have never thought that before this class. In brief, I can get a lot of advantage from this class.
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