Second of the Ultimate Leadership Workshop Series

Establishing Leadership

Initially this workshop was scheduled for next Friday, July 1, 2016 which is a Canadian holiday. So, in order to avoid conducting the workshop on a holiday, I had to reschedule this second workshop to today. And in spite of the last minute notice to all the participants, the turn out was really encouraging. This shows the commitment and determination of the students who have strong desires to learn. We started the workshop on time and had approximately forty five participants with several late comers.

Entanglement

After a short introduction to the day's activities, we began with the "Bingo Game". In the Bingo Game, the participants were supposed to gather as much information as possible from as many friends within five minutes. And they get to learn the two key elements that makes a successful leader which are effectiveness and efficiency during the debrief segment of the activity. The next activity starts with a challenge. They were introduced to a situation, where the participants were paired up and then tangled together with a pair of twine at the wrist. They tried all kinds of ways for about ten minutes but no pair was able to free themselves from the entanglement until I showed them an easy solution to free themselves. The learning from this activity was experience.

Top Executives in Action

The final experiential learning activity of the day was an opportunity for the participants to learn about challenges in communication across organizational hierarchy. This activity simulates real communication challenges in organizations. I split the class into four groups. Each receiving different sets of instructions but there is one common goal which was not actually revealed. Every group represents a level of the organizational hierarchy. There were so much chaos in communication, the goal wasn't achieved and the organization failed to function and succeed in its endeavour. But the essence of the activity is to learn from the mistakes and know the existence of such challenges in communication in every organization.