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Making a Difference

The lead­er­ship and career skills devel­op­ment club at the Over­seas Fam­ily School.

Inter­ested in joining?

In order to join you must give Mr Woods a detailed page explain­ing some of your ideas about lead­er­ship and also what you would like to learn about in the group.

The meet­ings are held on Wednes­days at lunch time (1:45) in room K403. 

There are basi­cally three aspects to what we will be doing, all of which are meant to help you improve your abil­i­ties as a leader:

1. You will do a small research project, into an aspect of lead­er­ship that inter­ests you and you will report back to the group on this. This way we will gather together insights into what makes a good leader and how to develop these skills, etc.

2. You will also explore an issue or theme of your choice and then (with help) you’ll design and try to imple­ment a small, but impor­tant change. This might be a change in the school or some­thing else.

3. Through­out the pro­gram I (Mr Woods) will be pro­vid­ing short lessons on lead­er­ship and change man­age­ment. I will intro­duce you to: moti­va­tion the­ory and goal set­ting tech­niques; Neuro-linguistic pro­gram­ing (NLP) approaches, sources of influ­ence and other lead­er­ship and man­age­ment the­o­ries that will help you to develop your lead­er­ship and enter­prise abilities.

This dia­gram (to the right) explains our basic approach, but don’t worry if it doesn’t quite make sense to you yet. We’ll explain it in the group.

Back­ground

Don’t worry if you have pre­vi­ous expe­ri­ence in lead­er­ship or man­age­ment. This club is designed to be suit­able for any­one who is
enthu­si­as­tic and ready for a challenge.

I have run a course like this pre­vi­ously, so this course will be a new and improved ver­sion of that club (learn about Lead­er­ship for Life here).

If you would like to know more about the course leader (Mr Woods), you can access that infor­ma­tion here:

Finally, if you’d like, you can con­tact me here:  or you can find me in my class­room K403, (where our meet­ings will be held).

“Lead­er­ship can be thought of as a capac­ity to define one­self to oth­ers in a way that clar­i­fies and expands a vision of the future” (Edwin H. Friedman).

 

Homework/Group work

1. The first thing you need to do (to get into the group) is to write down a page or so that explains your ideas about lead­er­ship and also some ideas about what you’d like to learn in the group.
2. After our first ses­sion, when we talk about your “Pic­ture” (your pos­i­tive and very spe­cific future vision for your life), write me another page. This one should:
- explain your Pic­ture and
- any ini­tial ideas you have for your inter­ven­tion project. Don’t worry about mak­ing this an absolutely impossible-to-achieve project. Think about some­thing that your friends would ben­e­fit from you doing (i.e. you putting together some infor­ma­tion on study skills?…anything.) Or you could speak to some­one you really admire (maybe Mrs BB or Mrs Amy or some­one like that?) and ask them if they have any ideas for a Mak­ing a Dif­fer­ence project. Or maybe your par­ents have an idea? If you can come up with a small change we can fig­ure out together how to make it an appro­pri­ate project.
- Please fill in the fol­low­ing doc­u­ment and be ready to hand it in next week. Sep­tem­ber 14 Down­load

3. Please com­plete the stake­holder analy­sis for Octo­ber 12th, so you can present it back to the group.

4. If you haven’t already pre­sented your arti­cle to the group please be pre­pared to do that at our next meet­ing (Nov 9th). I really enjoyed our last talks from Mon­ica and Danielle. Some really great ideas about work-life bal­ance and Stu­dent Well­ness. Thanks you two!

5. Okay guys, I have reflec­tions from almost all of you. Unfor­tu­nately Mrs Mares says every­one needs to also fill in the stan­dard reflec­tion sheet. I have made this as easy as pos­si­ble for you to do. I have  put 9 copies of the form on this one page. Please scroll down to your name and fill in the info under your name. I will print all of these off on Fri­day and hand them in for you. It’s a 3 minute job. One sen­tence answers for each are more than enough because I will also be  attach­ing the great reflec­tions you have already done. Sorry for the extra work. Please try to get it done by the end of the day on Thurs­day, Dec 1. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vzTCwQdg6d4JPrvei3EUuons8avZEZAF0HS6CdfsycY/edit  (No sign-in nec­es­sary. Just fill in and you’re done).

 

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