This Youth Connect Live will focus on ‘Personal Leadership’. Personal leadership is the inner core, the source, of a leader’s outer leadership success. It concerns your growth – psychologically, morally and technically – and its effect on your presence, resilience, behaviour and skill in action. At its heart is your self-awareness, progress towards self-mastery, technical competence and sense of connection with those around you. We’ll learn what YOU can do to work on your personal leadership.
We explore how to develop your personal leadership in two sessions:
Guest interview
In this session we will learn about the three key elements of personal leadership and hear about how to grow ourselves as a leader as well as about the importance of working on our personal leadership.
Follow-on question and answer session
Following your questions and comments relating to theinterview, this follow-up session gives you a further opportunity to reflect, connect, and explore how you can shape your own path to personal leadership—on your own terms.
Watch two insightful sessions to help you build awareness, resilience, and a deeper connection with yourself.
Self-reflection questions
Write down your answers to these self-reflection questions to better understand yourself.
- What is your definition of ‘leadership’?
- How useful, how practical, is the definition to you? How much does that guide what you do? How does it help you guide what you pay attention to as a leader?
- What people, ideas, images, emotions or qualities spring to mind when you consider the word ‘leadership’?
- Now consider your definition plus your list of people / ideas / images / emotions / qualities and ask yourself this: does what I have written down so far put me off the idea of being a leader … or encourage me to be a leader?
- Why is that? What is it that has put you off – or at least makes you hesitate to put yourself forward as a leader? Alternatively, what is it that attracts you about being a leader?
- What would you say your greatest strengths would be if you found yourself in a leadership role?
- What would you say your greatest weaknesses would be if you found yourself in a leadership role?
- What one thing is most likely to make you reluctant to act as a leader?
- Which of your core values do you think you would draw on most in a leadership role?
(‘Values’ are a specific class of personal beliefs that are especially important to you, that you care about, that act as your guiding principles through life.)
- How ready are you to put the effort in to growing yourself to become a good leader (bearing in mind that leaders are made, not born)?