Author : Lutfi Mulyadi
I am currently becoming a sub-village manager of voting organizers
in my village head election. My superior who is the event chairman is my sport
teacher and student council advisor when I was a leader of the council in the
junior high school. As my superior, I know him as a very good teacher,
motivator, mentor, advisor, and role model. So far, I have seen him diligently
praying, working and never seen him lie. Of course, no body is perfect, but his
behavior build my perception to him as a trusted superior. Moreover, his
experiences on becoming a voting organizer almost always convince me to
follow his guidance throughout the journey of the election. As a matter of
fact, this event has general procedures made by higher authority which is the
district governments. They made the election rules in detail. Consequently, all
team member must hold this general election rules/laws with the result that I shouldn’t
fully believe and trust all directions of my superior without understanding and
verifying the legal documents (Ciamis, 2020).
Doing the cross-check between the legal documentation of the
election rules and my superior directions always requires good
communication without noises and barriers (Young, 2016). The benefit of having
no emotional distance each other is that all superior directions can be easily
filtered and processed in agreement with the documents. Of course my superior
always holds this written rules. In the journey, what really happens is keeping
the tight rules on the track and making the flexible rules very well
communicated, brain stormed and agreed together.
In this event, we are a big community having seven sub - village organizers
or middle to lower managements. My perception to my colleagues under my
leadership is that they are really enthusiastic and always want to be involved
in the work. Every time my superior send any information and direction via whatsap
group, I always forward and discuss the new direction in my own group
and my colleagues always put shares on the issues.
Trust is the most valuable asset of interpersonal and organizational
life. Without trust, we can’t work as a team, we can’t give a person a duty on
certain jobs or we can’t make a good profitable or developmental investments to
improve capabilities of all members. To build or maintain the trust, honest and
open minded communication are always strongly encouraged. From the
starting point of jobs once we share the letter of invitation to all voters until
the election time my perception to my team is that they are really cooperative.
I don’t need to do micromanaging style in the process of sending invitation. However,
the detail evaluation of the achieved target strongly needs my attention and I really
want to evaluate it.
In every election of my village head, there is a grapevine that
possible conflicts especially in my sub-village always happen because this year
we have three of five candidates who stays in our place. There also exist a
stereotype (Lynn, 2020) that village people can be easily heated by any kinds
of mistaken procedures of election or heated by winning or losing in the election.
So far, the above grapevine (Diff, 2020) in the last campaign was always
successfully controlled and managed by cooperative and collaborative works of
organizers, the local government stack holder, police and security. In the
election time which is after about a week from now, the grapevine may possibly
show up and good team works of all responsible people hopefully can always
overcome or reduce it.
References
Lynn et all. (2020, September 10).
Understanding stereotypes, prejudice and discrimination. Retrieved November 26,
2020, from
https://kidshelpphone.ca/get-info/understanding-stereotypes-prejudice-and-discrimination/
Diff, W. (2020, October 22). Rumor vs Grapevine
- What's the difference? Retrieved December 11, 2020, from
https://wikidiff.com/rumor/grapevine
Ciamis, P. (2020). Lanjutan Tahapan Pemilihan
Kepala Desa Serentak Tahun 2020 ... Retrieved December 11, 2020, from https://ciamiskab.go.id/2020/12/01/lanjutan-tahapan-pemilihan-kepala-desa-serentak-tahun-2020-dan-pemilihan-kepala-desa-antar-waktu-di-kabupaten-ciamis/
Young
Entrepreneurs Forum. (2106, November 27). 10 barriers to effective communication [Video].
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