The Ultimate Leadership Workshop Series

Team Building

About forty five international students from Fraser International College got to participate in the Ultimate Leadership Workshop Series which started yesterday in Discovery 1, SFU. In the first of the three workshops, students get to learn team building, effective communication, critical thinking and leadership skills. The participants were introduced to several simulated working environments where the opportunity is to learn to collaborate with their fellow teammates to accomplish a particular goal. The first workshop sets the stage for the participants to experience the process of team building starting with the forming phase.

Accomplishing Common Goals

Within these activities, challenges were intentionally introduced to simulate a real working environment, such as a mole to sabotage or slowdown the team's progress. This activity allows the participants to experience the storming phase of team building, where team members start to doubt their fellow teammates. In order to encourage participation, each of the six teams were lead by a graduate student that also participated in all the three simulated activities.

Collaborative Work Environments

The three experiential learning activities were develop for the COLW510 Collaborative Work Environments course with a learning purpose, and were run concurrently with the leadership workshop to benefit some of the international students that were keen to learn leadership skills. The workshop is part of the learning component in the course for the graduate students. And with the leadership workshop, opportunities are given to the undergraduate students to learn alongside the graduate students in activities simulating live working environments.