Leadership day

In this leadership day, 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

Morning 

• 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

Afternoon

• 5 min - explanation game
• 10 min - Game for three. In this mini-game everyone is leader, observer, and participant.
• 10 min - Feedback about the game in the group.
• 30 min - Theory about the Rose of Axen. This explanation is also connected to this mini–game.
• 10 min - Re-play the mini - game with the same trio’s. After a short analyse (with the rose of Axen) of their mini – game they re-play the mini – game.
• 10 min - Feedback round in the group
  
  Pause
  
• 15 min - Meeting about a conflict. The team is polarised around a conflict. The pair-leaders have to find a solution with their team. The meeting is between two leaders
  and six group members. Each of these eight participants are observed by one observer. Extra people will be used to observe the interaction in the group.
• 10 min - Feedback of the personal observers. The observers meet with their observed. They look, using the Rose Of Axes, how the participant can beter deal with the situation. Both leaders meet with their observers and the session leaders, to find a better strategy.
• 15 min - Second part of the meeting .
• 50 min - General feedback
  

History

This day is based on 2 workshops we have succesfull delivered at Freelance Forum, XP.nl evening session Philips, XP Day.NL, XP Day.FR, XP Day.be
The Leadership game was considered one of the best sessions at XPDay.fr three years in a row.

Participants

8 - 18 
 
 
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