Practicing Leadership
This activity aims to build better understanding of vocabulary terms using a role-playing activity.
Discuss
Now that you have more information about leadership skills, how can you use them? These skills are important for expressing your needs, handling challenges, and setting goals. These are skills you can practice in many places like home, school, in your community, and when you work. Using these skills can help you get supports you need to achieve your goals. Let’s practice what this could look like!
Interactive Opportunity
Role Playing
Situation: Students are assigned a project. They need to decide how to divide tasks and set goals or next steps. Students can decide on the project, it can be a real project or idea for their school, community, or work that they would be interested in or use these example Leadership Scenario Cards.
- Roles: Team Leader, Team Member 1, Team Member 2, Team Member 3. This will vary based on group size. It can even include the instructor.
- Vocabulary Focus: Leadership, Collaboration, Communication, Decision-making, Responsibility.
- Activity: Give 10-15 minutes. The Team Leader facilitates a meeting where they communicate their goals, motivate team members, and encourage collaboration. Each member expresses their ideas and responsibilities.
Review
Try using these prompting questions to continue or start conversation.
- What was the project and how were tasks and goals divided up?
- What did the leader do to help discussion? What did the team members do to help? Were any of the team members leaders in their own way? If so, how?
- Was there something you thought would be a challenge but wasn’t, what about something you thought was easy but was difficult?
- How was it handled if people disagreed?
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