Leadership Toolkit

Strategies and approaches for skill development in the classroom

The following section offers some strategies and approaches for skill development in the classroom.  Much of the material on teamwork is covered in the Teamwork Toolkit.  However, the emphasis here is on leadership through teamwork, because leadership can't happen in a vacuum. 

1. Leader's role in a team context: Position Description
2. Leader's role in the four stages of team formation
3. Implications of the four stages of team formation
4. Identifying team roles
5. Conducting team meetings
6. Checklist for students to help them conduct effective meetings
7. Identifying and managing conflict in a team
8. Understanding team dynamics

Conducting team meetings

Developing leadership through teamwork is much easier if students are familiar with the processes of effective meetings.  Start with the basics, and give your students some guidance on running team meetings.  Most students will have been in a meeting at some stage of their lives.  Ask them to identify and discuss what they think are:

• the most annoying aspects of meetings;
• the characteristics of a well-run meeting;
• the qualities of a good participant in a meeting; and
• the qualities of an excellent chair person of a meeting.

 

Adapted from: Academic Leadership Program, AV-CC National Staff Development and Training Program, 17-21 November, 1997, Clear Mountain Lodge, Brisbane.  Cited in:  Johnstone, R., & Joughin, G. (1998).  Developing a Good Working Environment for Change.  Academic Leadership Series, Booklet No. 4. Brisbane: Griffith Institute for Higher Education, p. 46.

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