Activities

Activity OverviewAn effective leader has to always network. This activity demonstrates how leaders can practice this skill until they become proficient networkers.ObjectivesTo help leaders understand the significance of continuous networking.To learn and practice networking skills.

Activity OverviewTo demonstrate that ways to be a growing a leader are metaphorically like growing one’s garden. These ways are explored in this hands-on activity and that includes planting some real seeds.ObjectivesTo help leaders note the similarity between their development and growing a garden.To recognize key aspects of leadership that participants need to nurture and develop.

Activity OverviewSolid objects that may remind the leader to seek to achieve balance are recognized in this module.ObjectivesTo examine the significance of symbolic objects and their use as reminders.To discover goals that help us attain balance.To see or reinforce the idea that balance means different things to different people.

Activity OverviewLeaders have a difficult time “juggling” their many works, home, and community projects. This activity makes this dilemma definite and encourages reflection and rebalancing of the many priorities of a busy leader.ObjectivesTo encourage participants to reflect and talk discuss their actions in regards to “life balance.

Activity OverviewThis activity helps the leader enlarge traditional notions of power by using prewritten “affirmations.”ObjectivesTo creatively traverse the use of affirmations.To expand traditional notions of power.To share views on power.

Activity OverviewA highly competitive game is used to identify various kinds of power.ObjectivesTo develop the ability to identify and use different kinds of power.To strengthen what has been learned so far about power.To get an understanding of how others view power.

Activity OverviewThis leadership competency is explored through brainstorming, working in dyads, and guided visualization.ObjectivesTo define power.To demonstrate the relationship between power and self–concept.To identify positive and negative views we have of ourselves and how this impacts others.To recognize that personal power comes from within.To identify ways we give away power.

Activity OverviewThe step-by-step process that clarifies how ethical decisions are made is demonstrated in this exercise.ObjectivesTo present a way to thoroughly think things out before taking action.To demonstrate how to clarify, explore, and examine all options to arrive at ethical decisions.

Activity OverviewLeaders have responsibilities to themselves and to their organization to exhibit their values at all times. This activity helps participants think through their principles.ObjectivesTo help participants reaffirm their key values.To identify how values become the foundation of our ethical standards, behavior, and decision-making.

Activity OverviewPersonal change is crucial as a foundation of leadership development. This exercise takes participants through a series of discrete steps that will occur as part of the change processObjectivesTo provide a framework for thinking about change as a critical element in your corporate and personal lives.To showcase how to use metaphors as part of your thinking process.

Activity OverviewUtilizing a blindfold, one participant allows another to walk about while using only non-verbal clues. The debriefing takes each of the partners in the exercise through communication, trust, and other challenges that leaders face.ObjectivesTo develop trust among program participants (this will make their experiences mutually rewarding).

Activity OverviewA brief hike is used as a metaphor for leaders with flexibility and an adventuresome spirit. Hikers (participants) carry backpacks full of typical items needed for such a walk and relate them to specific leadership competencies.ObjectivesTo identify one’s keenness to be flexible, adventuresome, and interested in trying something new.