Weekly Reflection 1: Who is the LEADER?

 Weekly Reflections 1 (20^th March 2024)

 

Who is the LEADER?

 

Week 1; for the first time we met with our lecturer Prof. DR. Yusof Boon for this subject Dynamic of Leadership (UHPS) during this week 1 face to face. Generally, there was icebreaking session between the students and Prof Yusof. Besides, there was information and discussion with Prof. Yusof regarding leadership. Prof ended the class with a great question, WHO IS THE LEADER?

            Who is the leader? Prof. Yusof mentioned leader is a person. From there I will elaborate about “WHO IS THE LEADER?” from my own perspective and from my own language. Aa a person and an Occupational Therapist, I observe people and identify a person from the lens of occupational performance, where it will focus on a person role as human. As a person, we need to be a great leader as where we are, or at where we are responsible.  I will further explain about this week 1 reflection by giving example as I am Siti Noraisikin Binti Mohd Jazuli.

Hai, I am a Leader.

I will reflect this week 1 by explaining me as a leader. I divided myself into 4 roles as a human being, I as a family-oriented woman, as an Occupational Therapist that run my own Rehabilitation Clinic, as a speaker and leader in a community organization and lastly as a Master’s student.

Leader as a family-oriented woman; I am a wife, I need to co-lead the family with my husband. We need to set good example to our 8 children and show them what is good and how to be able to perform in life, most importantly life after death. Us (my husband and I), both are the eldest, we play important leadership toward both families; towards my parents, his parents, his siblings and also my siblings. As a co-leader, we need to support each other, portray to our family that we are in a same pathway for the family happiness. We did argue in certain things, yet we able to come back with the best solution for our families. So, am I a leader? Yes, I am human being, and I am a leader.

With my co-leader in the family

With my AWESOME little family

With my AWESOME Batu Pahat family

With my AWESOME Johor Bahru family

Leader as an Occupational Therapist (OT); I am running my own Rehabilitation Centre and I have staffs with me in order to give services to our patients. As their leader, I need to lead them to be a better OT, showing them the best services to be delivered to the patients, be integrated in our role as an OT and able to work in the team. I am assertive towards my approach with my team, yet in the same time they need to know the boundaries during working time. It is important for us to let our team know each own responsibility, because as an OT we are dealing with people. The patients need, health, safety and confidentiality are important to be handle appropriately. If compared as a family-oriented woman, this become my second priority and important in my life.

One from infinity AWESOME moments with my team.

Leader as a speaker and in community organization; I am also seeing myself as a leader when I am doing a lecture during training or workshop. I need to make sure, the participants understand and get a correct information and knowledge from what I taught. It is my responsibility to delivery the valid and functional knowledge to the participants, besides, make sure they doing the right things after the training. Other than that, I am also leading a community organization, especially those related with parent’s organization (NGOs). It is important for me to make sure that my team to be able to have the same aims in the organization. It is important for me to make sure our organization is beneficial for the society. It is important to make sure we are in the right pathways. Besides, it is important to make our members have beneficial activities that can be participated every year in order to enhance knowledge, awareness and connection within the organization. It is hard to be a leader in this situation, yet with the great team it can make it easy for you to deliver and by strengthening the bonding between team, will make the working situations and moments will become great memories to all.

As a speaker, you are also a leader. Lead people to gain knowledge and do better in their field.

With my AWESOME team in the community organization.

Latest program with our AWESOME community team.

 Leader as a Master’s student; am I a leader? Yes surely, I am a leader, because I sometimes help other classmate to understand the information that been delivered by the lecturer. I also might help my classmate to do the group assignments, or even share ideas for our course assignments. I am a leader to encourage my family, my team, my friends, my community team and my classmate to become better person in every aspect that we are doing. As a leader, we need to do the best out of us in any situation. 

I am officially a student

In a class discussion, every one of us are leader. We need to lead the team so that I can participate and perform the best out of us.

 However, as a leader, it is ok for us to asking for help, to make mistake, to learn new things and to listen to other people ideas and options. In view of the fact that as a leader we want others to improve and success in their life too. We are great leader for me if we can improve and success together with the team, or the people around us.

In conclusion, for me as a human being we all are leaders. Allah created us to be the Khalifah for the Ummah, so that our human being, religion and nation can be in better position. Therefore, lets us to become and projected the best leadership in ourselves for the better future.

Sincere reflection from Azsyikin Jazuli <3