Life Skills & Leadership: Unit 4, Session 1: What is a Leader? | Page 6 of 91- Arrange participants into groups of three to five and give each group flip chart paper and markers or
crayons. Point to Flip chart 1: Instructions and say:
“In your small group, please do three things: 1) Make sure everyone shares their quotation; 2) Study all
your quotations; and 3) Make a list of the qualities of a good leader. You will probably have to make
some guesses, but use your quotations as a guide. For example, if you had a quote like this by Napoleon
Bonaparte ‘A leader is a dealer in hope,’ you might say a leader should be hopeful or a leader should
have a dream or a leader should tell people about her or his dream.“Whatever qualities you come up with are fine. You can write your list or sketch pictures to make your
list.”- After groups work for about 25 minutes, give each group a chance to share one item from its list while
you take notes on a flip chart page for everyone to see. When every group has shared an item, give
teams a second or third chance to share qualities until all the qualities are on one flip chart.
Note: Make sure that you save the flip chart of the qualities of a good leader for use later in Unit 4, Session 2, “What Would
a Leader Do?”in the Application section, and for Unit 4, Session 3, “A Team Challenge” in the Information section.Note: Step 4 of “Leadership Quotes” is a partial assessment of Learning Objective 1.B. Summary
Summarize by saying:
“You can see that there are a lot of ways to think about leadership and there are also many qualities of
good leaders. We will be talking more about these qualities next when we examine the work of some
leaders you know.”III. Practice ( 45 minutes)
Materials:
Small pieces of paper or index cards – the size of a quarter of a sheet of paper (four for each participant)
Pens or pencils
Flip chart paper, markers or crayons
Flip chart 2: Our Leaders
A. The Best Leaders
Participants identify examples of leaders who embody the qualities previously listed.
- Distribute four small pieces of paper and pens or pencils to participants. Say:
“I’d like you to think about the people you know who you would consider good leaders. These can be
people in your country (politicians, athletes, military personnel, social figures), community (mayor,
business owners, nongovernmental organization professionals), school (principal, counselors, teachers,
coaches, students), place of worship (cleric, lay leader, youth leader), or your family (parent, older
sibling, aunt). Please try to think of four people and write their names on a slip of paper so you have