Weekly Reflections 7 (24th May 2024)
Today webinar through
WebEx was brought by Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities (FSSH),
Universiti Technologi Malaysia (UTM). It had been chaired by Ms. Nurhafizah
Yahya and started with doa’s recitation by Mr. Mohammed Mustafa Hussien
Al-Amrani. The session was moderated by PM Dr Jamilah Ahmad and the honour
invited speaker was YB Datuk Mohd. Noor Helmy Bin Abdul Halem, who is the
Deputy Exco of Science, Technology, Innovation and Digital Communication and
also the ADUN of Duyong.
Program’s Poster
At first, the session
slightly been disturbed by the technical issue, where the line was unclear and
it hardly to hear what YB been talking about. I lost for awhile and only able
to grabbed some of the information about YB’s background. YB Datuk Mohd. Noor
Helmy Bin Abdul Halem, 43 years old is a native “Anak Jati” of Melaka that currently serving the people in Duyong.
He managed to attract many followers, where it can be seen in his social media
platforms with 985.2 million in TikTok and 213 million in Facebook. Today short
session itself managed to grab 1.5 million audiences in TikTok and 121 in the
WebEx. His slogan “Tuanku adalah rakyat.
ADUN adalah mandat” and his leadership personality might be the reason why he
has that numbers of followers. Next, let’s I share some of my reflections for
today’s AWESOME session with YB Helmy.
2 platforms used during today’s
session (WebEx and TikTok)
Pembentukan Karaktor; the first point
that been mentioned by YB Helmy was character development. As a leader, a
strong character is important in order to lead not only a person, yet the
nation. For YB, he also took the personality test in order for him to
understand his own personality before able to understand the people.
Personality and effective leadership are linked, and 2 factors mediating the
linked which are (1) the leader ability to understand within and between group
political dynamic and (2) the degree to which the leader is seen as having
integrity (Hogan & Judge, 2012). As for YB his experiences with his own
people/community, getting to know with people from various races, be in the
ground and not being ‘tone deaf’ by understanding them are the keys of success.
Besides, a personality of “berkata benar
walaupun pahit” (telling the truth even when it’s bitter) make him a
genuine and different from other leaders.
YB
stands firm and noted that what every we as a leader, our personality needs to
be strong. We need to prepare ourselves as a person (personality),
psychologically and spiritually to be a great leader. YB shared his experienced
during his first time joining the politic, where he cried when he realised how
hard to gain people trust for him to become their leader. He is a successful
contractor before joining the politics, and when he needs to bag for a trust,
it broke his heart that time. However, it can be summarized that it is really
not easy to gain people’ trust, yet with our great personality, vast
experiences and wise leadership the trust can be received and accepted too.
Keputusan;
as a leader, we are always in a middle of other’s needs and our ability to give
theirs need. A leader needs to do wise decision, so that the people understand
why they can get or cannot get what they need for that particular time. As a
leader, we need to do what is right and do not be too excessive in doing our
role and responsibility. Dr Jamila elaborated during the session that YB Hemly
is a model of authentic leadership, where there were no nonsense and no hanky
panky when dealing with him. Authentic leadership is a leadership style
exhibited by individuals who have high standard of integrity, take
responsibility for their actions and make decisions based on principle rather
than short-term success (Gavin, 2019). However, in authentic leadership, there
are 4 important elements as a leader which are self-awareness, self-regulation,
positive psychological capital and positive modelling (Dimovski et al., 2012).
Basically,
YB Helmy is right as a person with authentic leadership style, where he is
serious in term of his work with the community, and in the same time he able to
mix and engage functionally with his people in the community. He is showing the
positive elements in his leadership style and make people comfort when being
around him. This can be seen in his Facebook, where he wore a superman costume
with sarong (kain pelekat) in one of
the events in the community.
From Berita Harian Online
Kepimpinan Jalanan;
as a leader, there is need for us to be balance while carrying out our tasks. A
leader needs to be knowledgeable so that we understand about laws and able to
plan our actions and do the decision wisely educated. However, we also need to
understand that why the people act, reacts or asks for their needs. From this,
a leader should be able to balance between the laws and humanity. Laws is
important in order for us to fix what is needed, and in the same times humanity
is important for us not to neglected the needs of the people. YB mentioned
during the session “bukan semua hak
rakyat, ada juga hak yang tertakluk pada undang-undang” (not all issues are
people’s right, that are rights that subjected to law).
A
story that YB mentioned about “Makcik dan
jalan raya”. This Makcik was
asking for a proper road along ways to her house. She asked 5 leaders back then
in her locality at that point, and all mentioned “insya-Allah”. Yet, still there is no proper road been done. Then,
when this Makcik asked YB Hemly the
same question, he strongly answered with he cannot do it because there is law
regarding the road construction. There need to be at least 4 houses before a
road can be constructed to the area, meanwhile for this Makcik there is only her house within that area.
The
lesson from this Makcik story was, as
a leader we do not promises to people something that we really cannot make it.
Just let them know the truth even it is hard to be told. It might result with
people did not liking us at that particular time, yet in the long run the
people will understand why we did so. Generally, this top to bottom approach
done by YB Helmy is a great approach for the leader to go to the underground in
order to see the people needs. Then, go back to the top in order to set and fix
the people issues within the top management.
In conclusion. As a
leader, we need to put ourselves in the people’s shoes, in order for us to
understand them more. I captured 2 powerful things from session with YB Mohd.
Noor Helmy Bin Abdul Halem today, which are (1) read the positive comments in
social media once. However, read the negative comments many times, because
there will be something right in those negative comments that maybe been
overlooked and supposedly to be done. (2) jangan
tunggu sempurna baru nak bermula, mula terlebih dahulu untuk jadikan sempurna
(do not wait for a perfection to start, yet start first to make it perfect).
Part of 121 participants from the
WebEx whose generally UTM students for subject UHPS 6013 (Dynamics of
Leadership)
Another picture taken from different angle by the student.
One from YB Mohd. Noor Hemly’s
Facebook page.
No comments:
Post a Comment