Leadership Toolkit

Assessing students' awareness and development of leadership

1. Reflective journals
2. Reflective essays
3. Analytical essays
4. Case studies
5. Media, film and fiction
6. Current affairs
7. Group presentations
8. Role plays

Current affairs

Find an ongoing story in the media involving a leadership conflict (e.g., the recent conflict in East Timor), and get students to analyse: the background of the people involved; the context for the conflict; the cause of the conflict; the contributing factors; the different approaches to leadership of the people involved; the likely outcomes; and what might have happened if things had been different - would a different leadership approach have worked better?

Sometimes it's good to use an extract from a novel, a film or television drama for the same exercise.

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