Improved Skill when Joining Student councils

Have you ever joined an extracurricular lesson or been a member of a student organization in your school? if you are junior high school student or senior high school student, the student body is called student council. Student council is a group of students elected by peers to participated in designated areas of school. Involvement at the lower levels has proven to be beneficial in that when students reach the higher grades. They have already experienced how meetings run and decisions are made. Being a member of student council can improve time management skill, public speaking skill, and team work skill. 

Joining student council can improve time management skill. Members of student council are typically some of the bussiest students in the school. As a member of student council, you must juggle your time for student council and other activies such as academics and family. Student council will help you learn for making a short-term investment of time that bring you rewards in the form of more productive time. This increase in quality will directly relate to how much time you have for yourself and others, creating a win-win solutions. From my experience, joining student council helps me to manage my time. I always get the tasks to be completed on time. At the same time, I have to finish all my schoolwork and homework. It makes me manage my time well so my tasks will be completed. Indirectly, when you can do all your tasks on time, you will be a disciplined person. CreativePost.com tells me that “ Managing your time isn’t about squeezing as many tasks into your day as possible. It’s about simplifying how you work, doing things faster, and relieving stress. It’s about clearing away space in your life to make time for people, play, and rest.” And that’s the same way that I learn in student council.

Joining student council also helps you learn the strategies to manage your time. As we know, being a member of student council has a lot of things to do such as attending meetings, preparing some events, training for new students, and many more. Student council helps me to manage my time effectively. First, I learn to complete most important tasks first. For example, if I have homework that should be collected the next morning, so I will do it first, then I finish the student council tasks. Second, get an early start to do my tasks. If student council tasks and my homework come at the same time, I have to start earlier than before. It will help me complete the tasks before midnight, so I have 7 to 8 hours to sleep or rest. Third, Delineate a time limit in to complete tasks. When signing in student council, I have to get used to working with the time that has been determined. Scheduling my tasks according to my competence. For example, how long will I do the homework? Whether for 3 hours, and the next 2 hours to do the student council task. The more I can manage my time, the more tasks will be accomplished and the student council allows me to increase discipline through tasks that are given periodically, meetings to attend, and programs to achieve successfully.

         Being a member of student council needs speaking ability. Speaking ability helps you to interact well with people. Joining student council requires you to speak in front of people, lead a meeting, and express many aspirations and ideas in your head. You will learn to speak more clearly so that your listeners can understand exactly what you’re saying and what you mean and learn to speak more fluently so that your thoughts and words stream together in sync helping you present your thoughts and ideas in an intelligent and precise manner.

          Public speaking absolutely can change human’s behaviour. One of the most common reason for speaking to an audience is to persuade others. In our everyday lives, we are often called on to convince, motivate, or persuade others to change their beliefs, take an action, or reconsider a decision. Student council helps you to learn to speak more confidently so that your listeners like and trust you, and therefore believe what you are saying. “ Oral communication skills are the number one skill that college graduates find useful in the business world,” according to a study by sociologist Andrew Zekeri.Zekeri, A. A. (2004). Many people are influencing the world in real ways through the power of speech.

        Being a member of student council requires you to cooperate. The main requirement to be able to cooperate is to control yourselves. According to a 2013 study by Wilhelm Hoffman, “ people with high self control are happier than those without.” The study discovered that is true because the self disciplined subjects were more capable of dealing with goal conflicts. You must be able to listen to the opinions, ideas of others, and not selfish. Students who join student council must learn how to work with their fellow members, this provides valuable experience is how to compromise. This experience can help student in future academic endeavors as well as future career opportunities.

       Being a member of student council teach you the value of teamwork. Teamwork holds a highly valuable place in organizations. With teamwork, all student council tasks will be finished quickly, that’s why a student council consists of president, vice president, secretary, treasurer, and ect. They have different jobs. But as team, they have the same goals to achieve. As  I serve as secretary, I have so many things to do such as taking the minutes of meetings, create an events proposal and ect. But i dont work alone. My friend member helps me to do the tasks.

       To conclude, student council helps you to improve three skills. By joining student council, your time management is improving, your public speaking skill can persuading others, and student council hepls you to controling your ego. This experience making you more organized, disciplined, and respectful of time. So, make sure your junior/senior high school time is filled with positive things such as joining student council that can improve the skills that exist in you!

Source by Realita Sereen. P