| Leadership activity: Non-Leaders Can Benefit Too | | | | leadership activity all participants should have |
| Some aren't so lucky to be born with the natural | | | | opportunity to assume both roles. |
| skills that we recognise in our leaders. For those | | | | There should be a constant alteration of the goals |
| people it is important to prepare a good leadership | | | | set and the leaders, thereby making the tasks |
| activity so that they can acquire and practise the | | | | more difficult and the challenges more rewarding. |
| skills required to lead a group of people. This can | | | | Participants then have to respond in real-time to |
| be in a professional setting, or a social context. | | | | the challenges as they are presented to them - |
| Enjoying the Activity | | | | just as in a real life leadership context. |
| Role-playing in a leadership activity can make it a | | | | All those involved in any kind of management, or |
| pleasurable experience, even fun! It should | | | | position of authority over others, should be |
| certainly be interesting as those involved act out | | | | trained using some type of leadership activity. |
| the various scenarios. Anyone who may | | | | Participants may include; executives, teachers, |
| otherwise feel awkward or uncomfortable when | | | | policemen and supervisors. |
| surrounded by a group should hopefully feel that | | | | Of course this doesn't just apply to the |
| much more relaxed and it is. As a result the | | | | workplace, we need leaders in social settings too. |
| learning process should be facilitated. | | | | There are those who feel uncomfortable |
| Ideally, leadership activity should give the person | | | | constantly following the wishes of the group, and |
| the chance to experience specific scenarios from | | | | desire to assert themselves more. They may |
| the perspective of the leader and those being led. | | | | wish to work towards personal objectives and will |
| In this way they will learn the necessary | | | | doubtless gain much from a well conducted |
| understanding of the needs of the group from | | | | leadership activity. |
| the individual's perspective. This understanding can | | | | Ethics and Leadership |
| help them in acquiring the skills to be a more | | | | It is important to stress that with leadership |
| effective leader. | | | | activity the aim must be the creation of effective |
| In this role-playing activity, one person assumes | | | | leaders. It is not to get one over on those around |
| the role of leader, and the followers work | | | | you, or to take advantage of followers. Ethics are |
| together under the leadership towards a shared | | | | therefore important for leaders and should be |
| goal. After this, someone else will have the | | | | emphasised as part of a good leadership activity. |
| opportunity to lead the group while that person | | | | We should find then that good leaders result from |
| then retreats within the group. During the | | | | a good leadership activity. |