1. Using soft skills in non-formal education
Understanding leadership

2. Leadership: Introduction
Quotes
Leadership is the activity of influencing people to strive willingly for group objectives. (George R. Terry)
Leadership is as the interpersonal influence exercised in a situation and directed, through the communication process, toward the attainment of a specialised goal – or goals. (Robert Tannebaum, Irving R. Weschler, and Fred Massarik)
Leadership is influencing people to follow in the achievement of a common goal. (Harold Koontz and Cyril O’Donnell)

3. 1.
Tower building game

4. ACTIVITY 1: TOWER BUILDING GAME
Make teams of minimum 4 persons:
2 managers
1 worker
Other observer(s)

5. ACTIVITY 1 : TOWER BUILDING GAME
The task: build the highest tower with your team
Only the worker is allowed to build the tower
The worker is blindfolded and works with non-dominant hand
The two managers guide their worker
The two managers decide on the height of the tower
Their decision is decisive
Time to build: 10 minutes
Scores
10 points for each block / Task completed: bonus 20 points

6. 2.
Debriefing

7. ACTIVITY 2: DEBRIEFING Did you achieve the target?
What happened during the exercise?
How did the managers communicate with the worker?
Was one manager more aggressive than the other?
Was there any element of trust on one manager over the other?
What happened when several constraints are imposed on the worker?
Do you find similar experiences in your everyday work situation?
What lessons can be drawn with regard to leadership processes from this experience?
 Remark: observers can intervene based on their observations

8. 3. Various apects of leadership

9. The laissez-faire leader
LEADERSHIP STYLES
The democratic leader
The laissez-faire leader
The autocratic leader

10. LEADERSHIP SKILLS
Technical skills
Human skills
Conceptual skills

11. LEADERSHIP ATTRIBUTES – 1
Acceptability
Delegation
Confidence: personal – interpersonal
Creativity / conceptual skills
Dependability and high integrity
Empathy
Effectively helpful
Emotionally balanced
Effective persuasiveness
Exemplary

12. LEADERSHIP ATTRIBUTES – 2 Fair-minded Functional work High self-esteem
Leadership and membership skills
Motivated and motivator
Open-mindedness
Personally committed
Sound decision making and judgement
Responsible

13. Leadership Conclusion Leadership skills can be learned
Leadership Conclusion Leadership skills can be learned. One's success as a leader calls for the blending of your personal capacities with sound leadership principles, continually applied.