EMAI L: EGLJ@OUTLOOK. COM WEBSI TE: WWW. EGLJ AMAI CA. COM Leadership is winning the hearts and minds of your people to achieve a common purpose Prepared by Crystal Witter
Agenda- September 2014
Theme: "Leadership from myPperspective " This month we will be examing the many perspectives of leadership. Firstly we will look on leadership from a personal point of view then we will go on to looking at it from the society's point of view.
Objectives: To provide club members with the opportunity to internalise and question themselves about their perspectives of leadership. To allow club members to understand that good leadership is a virtue and an important skill in today's society. Provide club members with the opportunity to examine leaders of the society.
Week One : Who am I as a leader? Leadership personally defined What kind of qualities should you have? Has your background helped you to prepare to be a leader? What do others expect of you? Followers, Peers, parents/adults Did anyone help to prepare you for your leadership role? How did you prepare for your role? Club members should form themselves in groups and later make a presentation using a creative method whether poem , song,Short speech etc entailing the points above.
EMERGING GLOBAL LEADERS J AMAI CA LEADERS OF J AMAICA, LEADERS OF THE WORLD EMAI L: EGLJ@OUTLOOK. COM WEBSI TE: WWW. EGLJ AMAI CA. COM Leadership is winning the hearts and minds of your people to achieve a common purpose Prepared by Crystal Witter
Icebreaker: Giants, Elves, Wizards 20 minutes Similar to Rock, Paper, Scissors. There are three positions giants (standing tall on tip toes with hands in the air) wizards (hands zapping the others), elves ( crouched down low with hands as ears). Giants crush elves, wizards zap giants and elves trick wizards. The team will seperate and decide on one primary move and on backup. They will come to the middle and on the count of 3 show their choice.
Week two: Leadership saves society? An investigation into the efficiency, and flaws of leaders of the Jamaica Society. The club should select 5 "influential/ popular" leaders of society and evaluate their effectiveness, flaws, efficiency etc. Extract from DPP Paula Llwellyn's speech to be shared and discussed with the club: DPP Paula Llewellyn delivered the political speech of the year at UTECH on May 28, 2024 where she provided an incisive critique on leadership and the society of Jamaica. In her speech she illustrated the failure of leadership by arguing that some leaders are "crippled by fear" to be decisive, or refrain from acting, not wanting to make the incorrect decision. These leaders, she argued "aspire to lead for the wrong reason. She defines the transformational leader as one that creates a vision so powerful that others align themselves to it; and that they have "the capacity to enable and encourage the people they lead to shine...without falling prey to insecurity or envy". In the context of our past colonial situation, she implied that the lack of progress in Jamaica, is a result of ineffective leadership, and that changes in "status quo" can only become real when 'fear' is put aside to make way for the passsion, the drive, the focus in the application of the imagination. In other words, the fear of critique and new thinking inhibits critical imaginative and creative thinking; abilities to examine our problems and to discover solution. Icebreaker: Human knot In small groups, the members will each grab hold of another person's hand at random. The group must then reform a circle without breaking bonds. ALL THE VERY BEST!