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How Leadership Skills Can Be Taught To Students
Sreeja Biswas
By Sreeja Biswas (Intern)

December 23, 2019

| 4 Min read

How Leadership Skills Can Be Taught To Students

As quoted ‘Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It's about an impact, influence, and inspiration. The impact involves getting results, influence involves spreading the passion you have for your work and to inspire your team-mates and mankind.’

One of the best ways to teach these leadership skills among the young workforce is through group projects. Within groups, you can select group leaders for different elements and inculcate great leadership values in everyone. For example, one student could be the research leader, another the report leader, someone else could be the visual presentation leader, and so on. Each leader would be holding certain responsibilities for guiding the rest of the group in establishing a concrete goal.

A leader should always be hardworking. He should emphasize values like listening to others and communicating with their desires. Leaders should possess the ability and courage to make the final decisions, via encouraging others in the tasks. A leader should always maintain a positive attitude in the atmosphere and take responsibility for the outcome of the project

Literature and history prove to be an essential tool for inculcating values like honesty and trust. You can ask the students to select a particularly notable character and explore the decisions they made. Reading about them would reform their thought processes. 

Hard work and perseverance are very essential for being a good leader among all. Don’t think things to be easy for you. Setting realistic goals and encouraging yourself when you get tired is also crucial. Moreover, athletic activities and competitive learning games also present great opportunities for practicing the skill of perseverance; because you can always learn from the experiences

Leadership skills ask the students to learn to see their problems before they can be of service in solving them. You could, for example, let the students discuss problems in the classroom, school, and community and bring these to your students’ attention. Afterward, you could encourage the class to brainstorm ideas for addressing those issues.

Listening is another art, which can help you be a great leader. It is not as easy as it sounds, but a huge stepping step that would take you forward.

One can teach the students the art of listening by allowing them to have a debate upon certain topics. From these lighthearted debates, you could gradually work towards your way up to more serious questions, which would help them grow and think from an entirely different perspective.

Providing opportunities for the students to have choices and make decisions can also help to inculcate leadership skills. These choices can include setting classroom rules, deciding on lesson activities, etc. Most importantly, it would guide your students in evaluating the costs and benefits of each option before they make their decisions.

A great leader in being should always uphold himself in the worst situations and learn how to celebrate success by sharing with everyone. It is not always the influence of an individual, but the effort of a good, cooperating society that gives birth to great and celebrated leaders.

 

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