EMERGING GLOBAL LEADERS J AMAI CA

LEADERS OF J AMAICA, LEADERS OF THE WORLD

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Leadership is winning the hearts and minds of your people to achieve a common purpose
Prepared by Crystal Witter

Agenda- September 2014

Theme: "Leadership from myPperspective "
This month we will be examing the many perspectives of leadership. Firstly we will look on leadership
from a personal point of view then we will go on to looking at it from the society's point of view.

Objectives:
To provide club members with the opportunity to internalise and question themselves
about their perspectives of leadership.
To allow club members to understand that good leadership is a virtue and an important
skill in today's society.
Provide club members with the opportunity to examine leaders of the society.

Week One : Who am I as a leader?
Leadership personally defined
What kind of qualities should you have?
Has your background helped you to prepare to be a leader?
What do others expect of you? Followers, Peers, parents/adults
Did anyone help to prepare you for your leadership role? How did you prepare for your
role?
Club members should form themselves in groups and later make a presentation using a creative
method whether poem , song,Short speech etc entailing the points above.



EMERGING GLOBAL LEADERS J AMAI CA
LEADERS OF J AMAICA, LEADERS OF THE WORLD
EMAI L: EGLJ@OUTLOOK. COM WEBSI TE: WWW. EGLJ AMAI CA. COM
Leadership is winning the hearts and minds of your people to achieve a common purpose
Prepared by Crystal Witter

Icebreaker: Giants, Elves, Wizards
20 minutes
Similar to Rock, Paper, Scissors. There are three positions giants (standing tall on tip toes with
hands in the air) wizards (hands zapping the others), elves ( crouched down low with hands as
ears). Giants crush elves, wizards zap giants and elves trick wizards. The team will seperate and
decide on one primary move and on backup. They will come to the middle and on the count of
3 show their choice.

Week two: Leadership saves society?
An investigation into the efficiency, and flaws of leaders of the Jamaica Society.
The club should select 5 "influential/ popular" leaders of society and evaluate their effectiveness,
flaws, efficiency etc.
Extract from DPP Paula Llwellyn's speech to be shared and discussed with the club:
DPP Paula Llewellyn delivered the political speech of the year at UTECH on May 28, 2024
where she provided an incisive critique on leadership and the society of Jamaica. In her speech
she illustrated the failure of leadership by arguing that some leaders are "crippled by fear" to be
decisive, or refrain from acting, not wanting to make the incorrect decision. These leaders, she
argued "aspire to lead for the wrong reason. She defines the transformational leader as one that
creates a vision so powerful that others align themselves to it; and that they have "the capacity to
enable and encourage the people they lead to shine...without falling prey to insecurity or envy".
In the context of our past colonial situation, she implied that the lack of progress in Jamaica, is a
result of ineffective leadership, and that changes in "status quo" can only become real when 'fear'
is put aside to make way for the passsion, the drive, the focus in the application of the
imagination. In other words, the fear of critique and new thinking inhibits critical imaginative
and creative thinking; abilities to examine our problems and to discover solution.
Icebreaker: Human knot
In small groups, the members will each grab hold of another person's hand at random. The group
must then reform a circle without breaking bonds.
ALL THE VERY BEST!