The batch of 2022 got graduated after nailing and surviving their IB DP life through COVID-19 situations and endless deadlines and submissions. The school organized its convocation on 16th July 2022, and I was a part of the organizing committee head for management for the same. As I identified my strengths of working collaboratively with others, my fellows and I decided to lead the team with our mentors to make this convocation a success. Using my leadership skills, I managed an event with all the students and parents of the batch, numerous teachers around the school, and special guests. Although it was not my first experience, due to many people, I lacked my time management skills to get everything done on time due to inconvenience in communication. As I am aware of my strengths and weaknesses, next time, I will be able to keep myself intact with the skills required and abide by my responsibilities. Weaknesses are a great thing to work on, and when it comes to time, it is more of life skill and worth working upon. Working on time management and social skills would help me in my life to be a better team leader and also help me to be an existing extrovert myself.

Organizing the convocation involved team and resource management; although getting through it was not challenging, handling over 500 people on the event day was. While working with a team of 30 people, collaboration, communication, and everything being in sync was a tough point to work upon. While organizing such events before, more or less the same difficulties were a part which could be overcome easily later on. Overcoming such challenges usually comes with experience; hence, I would love to let each one of them change my working style and help me grow. Hence, I feel overcoming challenges could be time-consuming but worth the wait and pays off in the long run.

Working with the team, I had to keep myself organized time-wise so that I could juggle events and other things altogether. While being an organized person myself, usually in general, I often tend to overlap the things I have planned to just make things go through faster. Initiating was more demanding in this case than planning as we had no clue about how the event could flow we had to make many instantaneous decisions to make it a success. Although the experience gave me a new set of surroundings to handle. There were some skills like communication skills which I improved. Being a teenager, I hadn’t conversed with a person of trustee or someone of that sort. I was assigned a duty to talk with all the chief guests and the principal of the school. The formal conversation with all of them looked pretty tough initially, although I decided to be myself and stay regular. The idea pulled off, and yes, it went very well. Experience has made me more skilled than ever before, so organizing something of this sort could be easier than this time. Planning and initiating activities help us better know ourselves and others and allow us to grow in a community collaboratively.

The process required perseverance cause giving up in the middle was not the right way for us. Being committed to our responsibility is an ethical choice, and hence being perseverant helps us to improve ourselves. Sticking up to the event’s organization was fun working with friends and teachers even helped me build new connections. Commitment to take our time for the event was a big part one could ask for. While the hustle was more of one day and not, we would have meetings to plan multiple times a week to get things right and decide what could be the best to make everything fall in place on the day of the event. Committing to things I enjoy is usually straightforward, although my mentors often ask me to stay persistent for several tasks that could help me be a better person. Although it seems complicated and challenging in the start, long-term perks keep me going and strive for greatness and better person.