Lesson:Leaders and Leadership

Conversation questions

1. What do you think about when you hear the word leader?
2. What do you think about when you hear the word leadership?
3. Do you consider yourself to be a leader or a follower? Explain.
4. Are you a good leader?
5. Are you a good follower?
6. What are the main characteristics of a good leader?
7. What makes a bad leader bad?
8. Who are the leaders you admire? Please, talk about them.
9. Do you think leadership is a natural talent or something that can be developed? Explain your thoughts.
10. What are the biggest challenges leaders face?
11. If you were the leader of your school/work, what changes would you make?
12. Do you think that leadership is an important topic to study? Why?
13. What happens to an organization that has a great leader?
14. What happens to an organization that has a bad leader?
15. What do you think of the leadership in our country?
16. Do you think leadership must necessarily be stressful?
17. Do you believe it's possible to be a leader in a romantic relationship?
18. Is there any relationship between being a leader and being happy?
19. Do you agree that sometimes leaders must take harsh actions to be effective?
20. How should a leader go about critiquing someone?

Situations

1. Imagine that you're the principal of a school. In this school there is a teacher who is 24 years old. You find out that this teacher is involved in a romantic relationship with a student who's 2 weeks away from turning 18. What would you do?
2. Imagine one day people knock on your door and tell you that you are the chosen one. The one leader of prophecy and that will save them all and that you must lead your people. Your country is small and being threatened by a much larger country who's trying to control it. What would you do?

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