Title: Types and Characteristics of a Leader you witnessed

Participants: Not more than five members

Time: 30 minutes to 45 minutes

Group discussion about certain characteristics of leaders can affect ones view about what acceptable leader is. This workshop can connect
personal experiences with different types of leadership and characteristics traits they were able to experience in school, community, or in a
nation.

Activity Description:

Count the number of participants present. Divide the group equally (preferable not more than exceeding five participants in a group). Each
member of the group should think situations that may comfortably share with the group about their experiences about leaders. They should only
select one leader that they never forgot. Let the members share to the group about their own experiences.

After the different members finished sharing, identify different leadership characteristics and leadership style of each member presented.
Guide questions:
1. Is the person an effective leader?
2. What kind of leader is he?
3. What characteristics you liked the most about him?
4. What characteristics you dislike the most about him?

As a group, identify the common answers to different questions. All groups then write the answers to the questions presented in the black or
white board. The answers are useful in choosing the best types and characteristics of a leader and what makes a good leader.

Objectives:
1. To share different stories from others how different leaders lead in a particular community
2. What are the impacts of these characteristics with the followers
3. To seek the leadership characteristics and types through personal experience

Guide questions:
PROCESSING
1. What kind of leader you mentioned in the group discussion?


2. What did you feel about the sharing?
3. What characteristics of a leader you disliked the most?
SYNTHESIS
1. What are the common answers in the sharing?
2. What is the most type of leader was liked?
3.
INTEGRATION
1. What is the importance of identifying characteristics of a leader?
2.
BACK HOME APPLICATION
1. What are the common answers derived?
2.




Objective
Questions
Describe what happened What happened? What did you see, hear, smell, touch, say

What range of feelings came up for you during the experience?
When were you surprised? Frustrated? Pleased? Affirmed? Disappointed?
Angry?


So what? Analyze and
generalize learning
What are you learning from this?
What difference does that make to you, to the community?
What do you understand differently now?
When have you seen something similar before?
How does this relate to larger contexts, theories, ideas?
What is important about what you have learned?
Now what? Apply
learning
Now what will you do with what you have learned?
How does it inform your work in community?
What has our group/class learned?
What are the implications of what we have done together?




Lecturette
LEADERSHIP:
Leadership is a moving target. It varies with the individual being led and the situation. Many
other factors impact it, too. The most important element, of course, is the follower. Even
though leadership often involves a group of people, each individual in the group has specific
expectations from the leader and will give the effort commensurate with the perception of the
support provided by the leader.
The next most important element is the context in which the leadership process works.
Different situations may call for different strategies. A leader who has worked in a specific
situation may have a better chance to be effective in employing the strategy. The leader will
have to understand the context first and use the support of his or her followers and associates
to dig deep into the situation. Once the situation is understood, a leader and followers can
work together to look for solutions.
Underlying all of this, no matter who the follower or what the situation, a leader must set
the example by aligning actions with his or her values.