Session aims:
- to acquaint students with the concepts of 'leadership' and 'a leader';
- to facilitate the actualisation of the personal leadership potential of each participant by means of engaging them in various forms of activity, involving creativity, team-play, and discovery (including self-discovery).
Duration: 2 hours
At the start of the session, the participants will become acquainted with the structure of the Programme as a whole, after which they will, with the trainer, compile a list of the general aims of their training. Then, the students will make their own business cards to get to know each other better. It is hoped that they will approach the session in as creative a manner as they can, so as to present themselves in as interesting a way as possible. After discussing this exercise, conclusions will be made as to the benefits to be accrued personally from better knowing one's own character and peculiarities, to better perform as a leader.
After this, the participants will, in small groups, solve a creative team task. While doing this, leaders will emerge in the teams, and the youngsters will then analyse what helped them to solve the creative tasks successfully in discussion, as well as what interfered with this and how they found their leaders and in what way this helped the team.
At the end of this activity, the participants watch several video case-studies on the theme “the image of a leader,” following which they make a list of the defining qualities and traits of a leader, analysing whether they themselves possess them, and whether they are ready at the present moment to take on a leadership position.
On finishing the first part of the session, the students receive a home assignment — “Leadership and me: diagnostics of leadership capabilities” — to aid them in further analysis of their own leadership qualities.
After this, the group's participants are offered the opportunity to practice these skills in organising and holding the action “Peace In You, Peace In Me...,” marking the International Day of Peace. Each team will receive three copies of the methodological recommendations to help them make the first steps in planning and organising the action in their college.