involver : inspiring pupil voice

Leadership and conduct session

Golden Co-op 3/10/09

Golden Co-op session 3/10/09

Session time 11.00 – 12.15
Number of participants 8-15
Ages of participants 14-21
Objectives • Create a Golden code of conduct
• Develop confidence to lead in teams, in the business, in public and
their community, collectively and individually
• Create an open, engaging, interactive, educational and fun
environment to instil active awareness of leadership
Learning outcomes • Gain an understanding of key leadership skills
• Begin to identify their own leadership skills, what type of leader they
may be

Time Activity Resources

11.00 Zoe: Introduction

11.05 Asher: (2 of) Bag of balls
Stretches: sports stretches to wake people up, get the Envelopes with questions in
blood flowing and people laughing at themselves/one them
another.
Group juggling: Balls thrown around the circle in order
with people shouting out names. Increasing in
complexity and number of balls. Green balls go forwards,
red go backwards, throw in other colours to confuse
things.
Envelopes: Split into small groups each group has an
envelope, with silly questions in. Take it in turns to pull
out a question and answer it.

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Time Activity Resources

11.20 Get people to wander around looking at the images Images (numbered) taken from
Ask them to note down what they feel the people in the newspapers and magazines.
images are doing and their reaction to that Mixture of obvious leaders and
other people just doing things
Blue tack
Pens
Notepads
11.25 Feedback on what people’s reactions were to the images Flipchart
Note down key words in two lists: Markers
Actions - Emotions
11.30 Ask people to stand by which image shows the most Flipchart
powerful leadership Markers
Facilitate discussion
Bring out:
• That leadership can be used positively and
negatively (some of the strongest leaders did so
through very dubious tactics)
• Leading by example/hypocrisy – how this affects
our perception of leaders
• Variety of leadership styles respected and
needed

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Time Activity Resources

11.40 Bring group together to write up a code of conduct Pens

Explain about simplicity: Paper
Rather than using a long list of rules a short simple
statement can work better (e.g. ‘respect yourself, each
other and your environment’, ‘treat other people as you
would like to be treated’)
Using the words from before (and the Golden Co values)
as inspiration put people into small groups (2 or 3 per
group) and get them to write down suggestions for a
code of conduct.
11.50 Share all the ideas and decide on one or amalgamate Flipchart
Markers
12.00 Finish

Additional idea if needed:

Leadership triangles
• Where do you place yourself?
o Ability/Knowledge/Skill – Decisive – Charisma

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