How do you guys get leadership positions?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>Like I know a lot of you guys probably have one or more leadership position. My question is how are you guys got into "office". Because most of the elections at my school are popularity contests. I am running for Speech Team Captain, and i am nervous that I am going to lose because the two other people are way more popular than I am, but I am the most qualified (well at least I think I am). </p>

<p>So like how do you guys win? </p>

<p>PS I already gave my speech and everyone already voted I will find out who wins Tues</p>

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<p>I gained my leadership positions by showing initiative and founding a specific program at my school, and my other by sticking with an extracurricular for a long time. I also have a leadership position in a club that my friend started.</p>

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<p>By sucking up…</p>

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<p>@penguin369 So you used inside connections…</p>

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<p>You don’t seem to understand the merit behind my post. I wasn’t joking around…</p>

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<p>Who do you suck up to when the whole group votes?</p>

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<p>Oh, they vote? That’s different. For my clubs, the teachers just decided…</p>

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<p>For my sport, being the only person in my class who puts in a consistent effort, doesn’t laze around regularly, isn’t a jerk, etc.</p>

<p>For one of my club-ish ECs, forming a political alliance with my associates (positions by vote, and coalition ended up being OP).</p>

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<p>The majority are by vote, which I think is ridiculous. Everyone knows that it’s just a stupid popularity contest.</p>

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<p>Yeah so for the ones that are by vote how do you guys win those?</p>

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<p>I have three leadership positions. Two of them are those from the clubs that I’ve founded, and the other one is from the opportunity when my history teacher recruited me as an editor for the school newspaper. All of these weren’t inside connections; I was really interested in creating those clubs, and they were very popular at my school. As for the editor-in-chief position, I gained it through hard work and dedication during history class, so I really deserved it.</p>

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<p>I’m talking about winning leadership positions by election. You got them in a totally different way</p>

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<p>Well, I guess it depends on how popular you are. There’s really nothing you can do to convince people to vote for you rather than their friends. </p>

<p>Sad but true.</p>

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<p>At my school, it’s based on popularity for pretty much every single community service club or language club.</p>

<p>In sports, it’s usually athletic ability (unless you’re a complete d-bag and/or the coach hates you).</p>

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<p>Yeah…so I’m pretty sure I lost… :(</p>

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<p>I don’t know if it’s necessarily always based on popularity…there’s always as many kids who hate the popular crowd as the kids who admire them. When I was running for school senate last week, I tried being a little nicer to everyone in general and ended up winning, even though I was up against who I consider the most popular girls in school, and I’m certainly nowhere near that kind of crowd. It also helps if your speech is funny, so people will remember you as a candidate. Witty campaign posters are always a plus, too.</p>

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<p>Slept my way through the Secretary, Vice Presidency and The Presidency. ;D</p>

<p>• • • • • • • • •</p>

<p>Seriously, I just got appointed to them. That was all.</p>

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<p>Well like for my school’s speech and debate team there are 3 different classes (like status not school class): </p>

<p>*Free Lance
-People who come in after school every Tues and Thrus to pratice
*Intro Class
-School class that meets daily for beginners
*Advance Class
-School class for advanced debaters/speech(ers?) </p>

<p>I passed Intro class and got put into advanced. So I didn’t get to know many people before hand. I’m not the most social and since we are broken up into our events. The people in speech (which I’m apart of) are umm kinda ghetto. So I didn’t talk to them much, and neither did I talk to anyone else since they weren’t in my group. </p>

<p>So Friday we ran for team captains 3 people ran for speech team captain (which is over all the classes). We all gave speeches about the stuff. I think I did really good and I had some really good ideas and they voted at the end of class…I saw got one vote and another candidate got one too. The third candidate said he said “ZombieDante Obviously won”. I don’t know if he was joking or being foreal…</p>

<p>So yeah I’m super nervous and can’t wait until 6th hour Tuesday to find out…</p>

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<p>As one of my rivals put it while trying to found a club I thought of without me, I used “haxconnections”.</p>

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<p>^Umm what?</p>