When you’re the star of your student leadership team, you earn attention and accolades from the community. You get the awards, and you earn the successes. So, why are some of your teammates hoping you fall on your face? Sometimes the star of the team has to work harder than anyone at being a humble, approachable, caring team member.
If you find yourself constantly annoyed at people for their supposed incompetence and stupidity – for not understanding what needs to get done – then maybe the problem isn’t the human race. Maybe it’s you. You’re not effectively communicating what you want and what you need. How can you expect others to give you what you want and need when you aren’t telling them? Stop assuming and fuming, and start communicating.
When I get a resume that spends four inches of space explaining every single leadership position a young man or woman had in a chapter, I start looking for what else he or she did. With all the opportunities for leadership and involvement on today’s campus, I see a student who spent their entire undergraduate career doing only one thing, and I wonder where the intellectual curiosity was.
