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Creating an Effective Leadership Training Course
A leadership training course aims at imparting a learning experience of leadership to all participants of the
course. This is not as easy as it appears since the course instructor has to manage the time such that each
individual participant has a chance to take on the role of a leader long enough to effectively internalize a
leader’s qualities. Learning leadership is only possible by acting the leader. This necessitates a careful
designing of a leadership training course.
Designing a Fruitful Leadership Training Course
Following strategies are helpful in enhancing the efficacy of a leadership training course.
Dividing the Participants
Dividing the participants into two or more groups is helpful in that the same leadership role can be played at once
by more than one individual. An additional merit of this strategy is that the performance of two or more
individuals can be evaluated on the same task.
Subordinate Leadership Roles
Additional leadership roles can be given to participants that would act under the main leaders. This doubles the
opportunity of learning leadership roles in the same time limit.
Reviewing the Experience
Reviewing leadership experience is an essential component of a standard leadership training course. Any leadership
experience that one or more participants hold, before entering the course, is of great value. It can be reviewed
while acting as a model for the other course members. They should then perform it in turns.
Leadership Strategies Outside Course
To promote the quality of spontaneously driven leadership, do not confine the leadership role to a pre-designed
one. Let the leader use a different strategy of his/her own as suits the given situation. Playing such roles in
pairs is more facile. While one of the pair plays one strategy, the other should try a different one of their
own.
Short-Time Leadership Performance
Sometimes it is very fruitful to let the participants take the leader’s role for short times, say from five to ten
minutes each. The time for individual performance is dependent on the size of the group. Keep the group as large as
to allow each performance at least five minutes; better if more.
Communicating for Learning
A dual way of communication between leadership and learners is effective in transferring leadership skills to the
learners. Leaders in the leadership training course should let the learners take the lead in transferring their own
experience of playing the role. This sharing of experiences is in itself a significant quality of good leadership
and will speed up the learner’s process of internalizing leadership skills.
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