Yours truly was selected by a certain NGO for some leadership fellowship, but unfortunately I only went as far as the pre-selection conference. Not because I was terrible, no, not at all. In fact, I believe I was the best candidate among those I interacted with!
The reason why I decided to pull out was simple and limited to my view that I think that the organisation that is leading this noble programme does not have the human resource mental wisdom among its leadership of what leadership is and who qualifies to undergo a leadership fellowship. I have seen how most leadership fellowship programmes are designed, and I am talking from a position of knowledge. But before I get thus far, let me highlight my disappointment.
Candidates who were selected for the programme were simply not up to scratch- why do I say so? I found students that I taught at high school last year (2008) as part of the prospective fellows and one of them later phoned me to tell me that she had made it. Honestly, her only leadership role in community was to serve as a prefect. Compare that to me, I lead a community project, I am a research fellow and I have been a student leader at university. How do you mix the two?
Generally, for one to be selected as a leadership fellow, for any serious fellowship they need to be doing some outstanding work in their respective communities and/or society. My point is let’s take the issue of leadership development seriously, as a nation we acknowledge time and again that we are suffering from a leadership famine and the only way we can address this is by developing promising leaders not clowns!
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