Youth Leadership Academy 1

It never been so excited quite a few years ago, i am honored to be selected to attend

McKinsey's Youth Leadership Academy. We are the first batch consists of 25 members selected from over 1000 applicants, guess what? we possess something special in their perception.

This workshop have been the best workshop so far because all like minded exciting youths were been interviewed, scrutinised and selected to be here. We were well taken by them, those McKinsey people are really awesome!

Heres a brief a day schedule.

We were transported to UEM leadership center. Here i saw many aspired lads with their noble undertakings. Also i have seen many bright, outgoing college girls campared to my campus'. ( hehe, no offends. just a feedback )

We started with the highlight of the day, close up with MAS CEO, Dato Idris Jala.

He had a speech for us, the pursuit of excellence. He taught us the 4 principle to achieve the pursuit. 1. the game of impossible 2. the discipline of action 3. winning coalition and 4. divine intervention.

Well, i must say, he is a superstar. His speech was inspiring and he closed his session with 2 songs, unplugged by him. I am his fan now. Take MAS...lol...There is something i must say and share with all readers about him. He could have be the Shell CEO or having stable income, big house but he took on the challenge...something he described as the "calling". He managed to turnaround MAS from a soon to be bankrupt in 3.5 months to now soon to be 5 star budget carrier. Every declaration he made during the press or public event, he already well prepared and victory is almost guaranteed.

Next, we were working on our personal leadership oppourtunity (PLO) which is something we re working on as a leader to pioneer or create things happen. We were guided along the way, receiving feedbacks, mapping issue tree diagram and the plans were shaped in a more defined picture.

We were also been taught to use influencing skills. There are many ways to influence people. We had a gaming...they called it speed dating which i dont really think so as implied by the name. It was really fun. This event is very dense. I haven really meet and talk with some other participants...looking forward to meeting them on the workshop 2. However i got many new friends like Kimberly, Ruby,Michael, Richard, Mei, Alex, Jermaine, KS, Nick, 2 Michelle(s) etc etc...Havent get to meet them all.

It was great. It was totally fruitful.