subject: Extracurricular Activities: Music Band and Your Competencies [print this page] There are different ways to develop one's personal skills and characteristics. As a rule, natural talents can be developed as successfully as some new knowledge can be acquired. You can be a great musician or an outstanding guitarist; your hobby can require a higher level of involvement if you choose to take part in extracurricular activities related to your hobby. In this respect, you hobby become a part of the learning process as all extracurricular activities are aimed at gaining useful skills that can be implemented in practice while studying in college and in future for your professional career. Relevance of music and leadership competencies Leadership competencies have been recently approached in scholarly sources on the sector of human resource management. If you want to be a part of the human resource department, you should learn more about the leadership competences. Music bands established in college provide you with a great opportunity to both learn more about leadership competencies and practice those in band. As the music band is a formal organization consisting of a limited number of members, you can fail to become a member of one of the already existing music bands. This provokes you to act! You can either become a soloist or set a music band consisting of people with common interests. Music and work in team While considering a music band as a good opportunity to develop your leadership competencies, it is necessary to provide some useful information: 1.Being a frontman requires demonstrating some leadership competencies, though another group member can be the leader of the band. In this respect, you should learn to work in team. Your performance depends on all of you! 2. You should be creative to become a leader, though other members of the band can ignore your competencies. 3.Your natural skills can fade away due to lack of communication skills.
Extracurricular Activities: Music Band and Your Competencies
