Package includes: skill sheet, activity #1: The Puzzler, activity #2: Blindfolded Escape.
Activity #1: The Puzzler
Time: 30 minutes
Supplies: One 200 piece puzzle for each team
Activity summary: This quick and easy activity is great for reinforcing several of the CLC Terms & Concepts. Participants are challenged to use SOLVE (although this rarely occurs). It’s quite common that the “leader” will either a) forget they are leading or b) use the inappropriate STYLE given the task, and those who FOLLOW will often fall into a passive role – especially if they are not directly involved/engaged putting the puzzle together.
Activity #2: Blindfolded Escape
Time: 15 minutes
Supplies: Blindfolds, classroom/atrium with a large exit
Activity summary: This quick and easy activity is great for reinforcing several of the CLC Terms & Concepts. Participants are challenged to use SOLVE (although this rarely occurs). It’s quite common that the “leader” will either a) forget they are leading or b) use the inappropriate STYLE given the task, and those who FOLLOW will often fall into a passive role – especially if they struggle to determine the correct answer.
This module includes: 1.) curriculum related to CLC’s attributes of effective leaders including the LEADERSHIP acronym, teaching notes, reflection questions, and more; 2.) two classroom exercises to help students practice the attributes and apply their learning; 3.) the LEADERSHIP Skill Sheet (i.e., rubric) for measuring student growth and helping educators guide the debriefing process after the exercises have been completed.
If leadership is about moving a group from its current state to a desired future state, there needs to be an exciting vision for a better future. The ultimate objective is for the leader to intervene skillfully and deliver results by focusing on two dimensions – relationship and process. The leader must always be thinking about process and prioritizing relationships with members of the group, or team. In a general sense, the leader must set clear expectations, show integrity, display emotional intelligence (awareness and regulation of emotions in self and others) and display a likable personality. At times, the leader may need to raise the heat and influence the group to work above and beyond what they thought they were capable of.
Collegiate Leadership Competition is a nonprofit organization focused on researching leadership development and using that knowledge to create resources that will help move the field of leadership education forward. CLC’s underlying theory is that leadership skills are primarily strengthened through deliberate practice.