Youth Leadership Course Development EAC is a group whose focus is to develop a leadership training day at the college for the students. We start the year with discussions about all types of leaders and what it means to be a leader. This can be a very difficult but interesting part of this EAC because we all have very different definitions of leaders and different role models. As we share our opinions, we change aspects of other opinions around us, challenging others to really consider what leadership is.
After this stage, the EAC moves into the planning of the Youth Leadership day. This year (Dec 6-7) we had students attend one workshop in order to not overload them with information and to really focus their attention. Some of the workshops included youth entrepreneurship and public speaking. After Youth Leadership day the group did some critiquing and planning for next year. The first years in the group have decided to take responsibility for the planning of the EAC, as it most pertains to them. The last phase of this EAC is some general leadership training and sharing. We realize we have an immense amount of knowledge in our group that when we share with members eventually trickles down into the RCN family.
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Structure of the Youth Leadership Day
| Workshop name | Hosted by | Summary |
| Teamwork I | Katherine (Katu) & Mais | Included teamwork with main focus on two aspects: one in which there is more than one leader involved and the other where there is one leader. In both, through activities, participants learnt how to work together and about their strengths and weaknesses when working in groups. |
| Teamwork II | Louise & Ieva | Teamwork is essential! Individuals are becoming less and less autonomous as theworld demands greater interdependence. The team development process is essential to the success of every team.Workshop objectives:
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| What is Leadership? How to be a Leader. | Samuel & Rodi | Included: defining the term leadership and the ways it can be interpreted including tips on how to become a leader. |
| Image of a Movement | Ida & Scott | Participants learnt about successful movements, identified effective techniques, and found how to get people up off the couch and active in a movement with focus on inspiring others and crafting the image of movement and use this knowledge to their advantage. |
| Fundraising and Speech Writing | Peshwas & Tamim | Participants learnt effective methods of attracting financiers to different projects and commitments. The workshop not went over essential considerations and strategies that are useful and credible, but also focused on where funding is needed and where projects can go around without funding. In essence, this workshop was good for those planning to start organizations, host events, organize conferences etc., or simply committed to a life in the bureaucratic sphere. Furthermore, participants also learnt the important steps in writing speeches. All participants drafted one speech during the workshop to practice persuasive speech. |
| Meeting Management | Henrik & Christine | Aim of the workshop:
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| Public Speaking and Communication | Basem & Mirza | Included: How to address public, speech giving and get the attention of huge amount of people and overcoming fear.Improving skills of being a great orator who is able to keep effect on audience and convince them in what he says. In addition to that, being able to be a good listener as well as a good speaker, organizing ideas and using them. |
| Youth Political Leadership and Social Entrepreneurship | Amine & Madeley | The main aims of this workshop was to give to the participants the bases : “How can they give solution or answers ,as youth political leaders ,to the different political problems that many countries have around the world”, where the participants analysed the weaknesses and strengths from their governments of the selected countries.
One of the principal characteristics that a leader must have is to be a social entrepreneur,therefore throught this workshop the ideas about how a young leader can increase the resources and development of their areas was promoted. |
| Leading Youth Activism and Social Movement | Kanchan & Mariana | Participants went through a “Vision>Plan>Promote>Do>Review” approach of British Council’s Global change-maker tool kit. Each participant came up with individual or group projects on pressing issues by the end of the session.Included:
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