Around 39 participants participated in the Buckle up: Journey on Leadership headed by the UST Nursing Commission on Elections (Comelec), and the UST Nursing Central Board of Students (NCBS) held virtually on March 18, 2022.
The program aimed to ignite the flame of leadership within the Thomasian nursing community so that they could recognize the importance of young leaders during this era. This program seeks to cultivate and refine young minds with a central idea of leadership, commitment, loyalty, and integrity.
In the first segment of the webinar, the first speaker, Asst. Prof. Warren S. Maneja, a faculty member of the UST Institute of Religion, introduced the Spiritual and Moral Qualities of a Leader.
“Whether you like it or not, you are responsible for the people you lead, so treat them as one of your own. If you lead, but you’re afraid to laugh, joke, or make a mistake, you failed at being a leader,” remarked Maneja. He emphasized how a leader must accept themselves first before anything else to be the best they can be.
Maneja highlighted, “Have the courage to say no, have the courage to face the truth, do the right thing because it is right. This is a leader’s burden to bear. This is integrity.”
“A hero is not always one with superpowers, but an individual who has the right heart and mind that is consumed with a single purpose, that one person can impact change,” implied Maneja. The speaker emphasized that a group with the same convictions can commit change one by one to the different communities of our nation.
The second speaker, Dr. Carl E. Balita EDD, DRHUM, RN, RM, LPT, CFE, the president of the UST Nursing Alumni Association Inc., discussed the importance of Influence and Vision to become an influential leader of our generation.
“Vision is an ideal state of the future. It is something you need to communicate and share with the people around you so that you will be able to influence,” Balita remarked. He conveyed that as a leader, we have to communicate and share the ideal state of the future, and in doing so, we will be able to influence other people to follow us on the journey we want to go.
In the Closing Remarks of the program, the Adviser of the UST Nursing Comelec, Asst. Prof. James B. Rabago, RN, MD, wanted the student-leaders of the College to know that submitting the requirements for the upcoming candidacy is a good start of igniting the flame of leadership.
The two-hour event focused on encouraging the whole nursing community to take action and be part of the change for knowledge and proper mindset with a central idea of leadership.
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