The Leadership Game

In this leadership game, people will experiment with how they behave as leaders and how they interact with leaders with different leadership styles.

Audience

This workshop is for everyone that wants to learn about (different styles of) leadership.
The model used in the workshop (the rose of axes) is valuable in every interaction between people and is usefull for everyone in a team especially with conflicts.
We will focus on the position of the leaders.

Benefits of participating

The participants will learn about leadership and dealing with conflict from a leadership position or a team member.
Learn about the option (as a leader of member) with your own capacities and depending of you own values.
We give special attention to the daily “practices” from the project teams.
We show the participants different forms of power and inner strenght using the model the rose of axes. Partcipants will reuse this model to learn about other groups, and their interactions.
We selected these 3 kinds of leaderships because these are the most extreme cases. A real situational leader would use the 2 leadership styles in different situations. By playing it so extremely it becomes a lot clearer for the participants.

Session timeline

20 min Intro
30 min First round: 2 strong visionary leaders
The team gets the order to make a project. The pair-leaders directs strongly and takes all the decisions.
10 min Feedback
10 min pause
20 min Second round: without a leader
In this assignment the (same) group has to build another project, but no leader is appointed. The organizers make sure no-one will take leadership.
10 min Feedback
30 min Third round: process leaders
Again a (detailed) project has to be made. This time we have two leaders who will guide the process, not the product. These leaders will get a cheat sheet with tips to look for. The organizers help them, when they would go for the product.
10 min Feedback
40 min General feedback
Rest of he time Theory