Why Influence Should Be Built on Responsibility First

For HODs, form teachers, and school leaders running prefect, student council, or CCA leadership selection: the student who presents best in an interview is not always the student who is safest to trust with responsibility.

Leadership education should not produce impressive students. It should produce trustworthy ones. That distinction, repeated often at Leaven Academy, is not a slogan. It is a sequencing problem, and it shows up every year during student leadership selection season in secondary schools across Singapore.