Leadership Goals: To use delegation, group decision making skills, effective meetings, and facilitation to improve leadership.
Do It, Do It Delegation
Objectives:
Reflection Questions:
- Discuss the positive and negative aspects related to delegating
- Practice delegating skills in leadership situations
Reflection Questions:
- What are some of the advantages to delegating? What are some of the disadvantages?
- Have you ever been in a situation in which you had to delegate?
- Do you find that the same people in your group often complete most of the work? How can delegation be used to remedy this challenge?
Arctic Mission
Objectives:
- Develop good decision making skills
- Learn four different processes to make group decisions
- Recognize the strengths and weaknesses of each process
- Gain an understanding of the personal perceptions and assumptions brought to a group.
- What process did we use in this activity to come to a decision?
- What process do you see most often used to come to a decision?
- What process do you feel is most effective? Why?
- What are some benefits and weaknesses to each process in your decision making experiences, or groups in which you help to make decisions?
- How would you choose which process to use in a decision making instance?
Making the Most of Meetings
Objectives:
Reflection Questions:
- Gain skills to plan effective and efficient meetings
- Develop an understanding of the steps to take to hold productive meetings
- Work effectively with challenges created by meeting participants
Reflection Questions:
- In what ways can you help make a meeting successful? Unsuccessful?
- How will you help run an efficient and effective meeting in the future?
The Art of Facilitation
Objectives:
Reflection Questions:
- Compare and contrast the concepts of leaders and facilitators
- Apply basic principles and practices in facilitation
Reflection Questions:
- How is facilitating different from leading? Which is more challenging? Why?
- In what situations might you find facilitation most effective?
- How can facilitation improve your skills as a leader?