I Cannot Get any Leadership

doldrum
Fri, 12 Jun 2015 18:21:41 +0000

Few stats about me:

HS class size of 660

Two major leadership positions in school (one starting officially from jr year [technically freshmen year] and the other from senior year).

A few minor things outside of school

You basically have to get people to like you. You can’t come across as an erudite member who is pedantic in locution, hoping that people will vote for you based solely off of merits.

For example:
I’m captain of our math team. A technique that I have used to get people to vote for me is to talk about a new angle [pun intended] that you wish to bring to the club. I have expanded the contests that we do–this provides more opportunity for members. As a result, about thirty new members joined our team. Although in all seriousness, I would have probably been captain anyways, this is a pretty effective technique.

If gender bias is an issue, maybe you can convince a girl friend to run for a position. Chances are, provided that your assertion is true, that the girls will split the votes, and then you can win. I think this happened in some election in the 1800s actually.

Furthermore, if you cannot seem to get any leadership position in school, you can always true creating your own club outside of school!