Leadership Activities for Groups

Some are born leaders while others take efforts to develop leadership qualities. A person having leadership qualities tends to take everyone along, has the ability to understand others, shows clarity in thought and expression and is most often a popular figure. Here are some leadership activities that can help you perfect your leadership skills and help you find a leader within yourself. Some of the activities that follow can be used to identify the true leader in a group.

Group Leadership Activities
One of the best activities for finding and fostering leadership skills is of giving the participants a questionnaire. Design tricky questions that can help you find a leader in the crowd. Ask the participants to imagine they are caught in a storm and ask them to state what would they do to reach home. Ask them to imagine that day as the last day of their life. Ask them to list down the things they would do then! Frame such hypothetical scenarios and find how they would react to them. The questions of this type require quick decision-making and logical thinking. The answers to these questions will reflect their skills of contingency planning as well. The answers will represent the type of decision-making practices they would follow if given leadership. Understanding people's reactions to situations is sure to bring forward their personalities.

This leadership activity will require you to divide the group into teams of two. Ask one of the participants in each pair to frame interview-like questions for his/her partner. Let the both in the pair take their chances of putting forth questions. Each one's way of framing the questions, the thought process behind each of the questions as also the answers obtained from each of the participants can serve as a means to identify leadership.

Divide the group into teams. See that any two people who know each other fairly well are in opposite teams. Now ask each member of the team to choose one person from the opposite team and say what should be changed about that person. This leadership activity helps the people in the group assess each other. You can see how well they judge their fellow mates. These judgments can give an idea about the way they think about each other. It is sure to exhibit the feelings borne by the team members for each other.

Inviting each member to define leadership in his/her own way or ask each member, "Which leader inspires you and why?" The answers to these questions would make explicit each one's ideas about leadership. The person's answers will also reflect the type of leader he/she is.

Team building activities, fun games involving physical and mental activity, group activities and outdoor games can also help bring about the true leader in a group. Such activities involve team spirit, coordinated effort of the team and a competitive spirit. The person who seems to be leading the team, planning actions, deciding moves in games is surely a leader!

These were a few of the leadership activities for groups, which will fit just fine for school or college students and will indeed be effective for professionals. So go ahead with some of these and tell me how you find them!