Batch 4 – Leadership

Leadership played an important role in my internship especially when I was put into an office with direction to research and write up a policy guideline for the Ministry of Information as roadmap. I wanted to be a great ambassador for Arizona State University and displayed the quality of education I had acquired and put it into practice. I demonstrated good practices of hard work, being a good role model, initiating change and most importantly complete the task at hand. Self-management, leadership dynamics in personifying inspiration for other employees, positive corroboration, strengthening innovation amongst staff members, highlighting team work, boosting confidence with co-workers and providing constructive criticism for growth within the ministry.  

Ministry of Information is a newly created ministry to oversee all governmental information. There is a director with four other employees who were overwhelmed with many job responsibilities. It was a win-win situation where I learned from them and they learned from me. It was such an eye opener for me to see that Tonga lacks so much initiatives. There were numerous things that needed improvements and several challenges that required immediate attention and should be addressed.

There were so many leadership skill sets were put to practice while interning such as providing motivation, simplifying an issue and creating logical decisions, offering constructive criticism, organizing and planning as well as creating objectives, spearheading change and initiative on flexible response to demanding situations and revolution of internet influxes in Tonga.

The director of the department portrayed his leadership role by supporting everything that I was recommending. His qualification was on information technology and he was extremely qualified, talented and know everything there was to know about computers, software, hardware, and governmental needs for computer information. He was lack the policy formulation which he actually allowed me to help him with. This provided me an opportunity indeed to freely go about my thorough research and finished writing up a comprehensive report and a 55 pages policy guideline.