We don't make Leaders -We help make better Leaders

This is a learning experiencewithout teaching, everything learned comes from the students' own discovery of what works and what doesn't. The students are provided with a series of increasingly complicated activities and tasks that require a lot of cooperation and communication. All the sessions are run by and self critiqued by the students.It's like learning to swim by jumping in the deep end without any instruction. The senior Chaps act only as life guards watching from the side lines. It's different, but generates amazing results.

Since all of the participants were already natural leaders at school or in their peer groups, the most useful lesson, and hardest, was how to lead from within a group instead of from the front. It's a great shock to discover all your natural charisma, assertiveness and personal skills don't work when there are no natural followers. For many, it was the first time in their lives that they called out, "Follow me.." and no-one did". That's when they discovered some of the skills of listening, compromising, evaluating and developing consensus. Many managers should be so lucky!

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We would like to hear from any other Rotarians with a similar activity.

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