Developing a Leadership Mindset...

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others." - Jack Welch


About 70 kids joined our 1st life skills session for the year…the 2nd in the series tagged: ‘Developing a leadership mindset’...This included 8 kids from an Orphanage in Nigeria - Yay!!!


The session was aimed more at 'Self leadership, Self-growth and Self direction.




It was interesting to see how many Parents were asking if the session was for Parents or for kids and I had to clarify this during the session. Of course, leadership and related topics are not taught in schools hence I could understand the confusion but that’s what we do! - Teach skills and topics hardly taught within the classroom!!!


We started off by explaining why it was important to learn these skills - one of which is that it is useful for profiles and school recommendation letters. But also that it’s important to have a leadership mindset for the future.





But what exactly is a leadership mindset?
It involves having certain attitudes, beliefs and expectations which affects how you lead and interact/influence with others. In simple terms - thinking and acting like a leader...


How can one think and act like a leader in school? 

Here were some tips we shared below:

  • Develop the mentality of a 1st! - A role model
  • Be Punctual to School or School related activities
  • Present yourself in a neat and tidy manner.
  • Submit homework/assignments on time
  • Be of best conduct in class (and outside too)
  • Have good social interactions
  • Start a school campaign
  • Engage in extracurricular activities
  • Endeavour to be academically outstanding
  • Read extensively and learn something new
  • Always go the extra mile - Be excellent

We wrapped up the session with our famous Kahoot Quiz which was a great highlight for the session.









We called it a day with our next session to be held on the 23rd of March - same time online.

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