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Leadership, learning styles, feedback, etc

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What are the qualities of a great leader?

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  1. Respect others
  2. Knowledgeable
  3. Ambitious
  4. Good listener
  5. Inclusive
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A good leader should make you feel…..

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Safe, empowered, confident

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What are the qualities of a bad leader?

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Rude, self-centred, exclusive, indecisive, ignorant, un-organised

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What is outdoor leadership?

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The ability to plan and conduct safe, enjoyable and meaningful adventure activities while conserving the environment. Building connection within the outdoor and conserving it.

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What are the 3 types of skills

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Meta, hard and soft skills

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What are meta skills?

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problem solving, decision making, communication, profession ethics

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What are hard skills?

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Activity technical skills, safety skills and environmental skills

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What are soft skills?

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Instruction, organisation, facilitation and interpersonal skills

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List the 8 core competencies

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foundational knowledge, self awareness, decision making, teaching, environmental stewardship, program management, safety and risk management and technical ability

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What is foundational knowledge?

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sense of purpose, sense of heritage, breadth of the profession, understanding leadership theory

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What is self awareness

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acting mindfully, knowing limitation, influencing other and behaving ethically

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What is decision making

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Conscious decision making, role of judgement, awareness of available resources

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What is teaching and facilitation?

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Facilitation skills, teaching skills and teaching experimentally (learning by doing)

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What is environmental stewardship?

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Environmental Ethics, ecological literacy and management of parks and protected areas

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What is program management?

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Planning skills, organisational skills and management skills

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What is safety and risk management?

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Participant safety, preparation and planning, the legal aspects and assessing abilities and limitations.

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What is technical ability?

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Proficiency in outdoor activities, experience based competency and professional certification

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What are the leadership theories?

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Trait and great men, charismatic and heroic, situational leadership, transformational leadership, feminist leadership, servant leadership, authentic leadership, spiritual leadership,

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Trait and Great Men Leadership

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Leaders are born not made, have a certain set of physical, intellectual and interpersonal skills and mostly men
Example: Churchill

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Charismatic and Heroic Leadership

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Inspire passionate reactions, emerge at times of crisis, bring radical change
Example: Hitler Martin Luther King Jr

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Situational leadership

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Delegating, low support and low directive
Supporting, high support and low directive
Coaching, high directive and high support
Directing, high directive and low support

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Transformational Leadership

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Most people’s idea of a leader, provides a vision, inspirational, gives personal attention and develops leadership in others

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Feminist Leadership

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Close attention to relationships, shared responsibility, personal experience is valued

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Servant leadership

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Being of service to others, people’s needs are met first, empathetic, listens, understands the needs of the group

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Authentic Leadership
Self aware, openness, do what they say they will do, build and maintain a positive culture
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Spiritual leadership
living with spirit and connected with self, others and the natural world, leads to sense of belonging
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Lewin's leadership styles
Authoritarian, democratic and laissez faire
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Authoritarian leadership style
Individual control all decisions and little input from group members
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Democratic leadership style
Members of the group take a more participative role in the decision-making process
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What's good and bad about democratic leadership style?
Good: more productive, more creative, more care about end results and more committed Bad: When roles are unclear, not a lot of time
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What is Laissez Faire Leadership style?
Leaders are hands-off and allow ground members to make the decisions
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What is good and bad about laissez faire leadership style?
Good: effective when group members are highly skilled Bad: Not ideal when member lack knowledge or experience, projects can go off track.
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What is an extrovert?
Someone who is outgoing and bold
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What is an introvert?
Someone who is more quiet and deliberative
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What is an ambivert?
Someone who falls in the middle of the spectrum between loud and quiet
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What type of personality makes the most effective leader
Introverts and extroverts are equally effective although with different kinds of teams Ambiverts are highly effective in leadership roles because they can adapt to what's needed
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What are the 8 learning styles?
Visual, aural, verbal, physical, logical, social, solitary and natural
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What is a visual learner?
Someone who learns through pictures and images
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What is an aural learner?
someone who learns through sound and music
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What is a verbal learner?
someone who learns through words in speech or writing
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What is a physical learner?
Someone who learns through using the body, hands and a sense of touch
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What is a logical learner?
someone who learns through logical, reasoning and systems
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What is a social learner?
someone who learns in group
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What is a solitary learner?
Someone who learns through being alone
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What is a natural learner?
Someone who learns through past experiences
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What are the 5 factor of personality?
Openness, Conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism.
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What does openness mean?
How open a person is to new ideas and experiences
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What does conscientiousness mean?
how goal-directed, persistent and organised a person is.
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What does extraversion mean?
How much a person is energised by the outside world
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What is agreeableness?
how much a person puts others' interests and needs ahead of their own
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What is neuroticism?
How sensitive a person is to stress and negative emotional triggers
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What are tuckman's stages of group development?
Forming, storming, norming, performing and mourning
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What is the forming stage?
The polite stage in which the team starts to form, silent leaders may take charge
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What is the storming stage?
Honeymoon is over, the silent leader might clash over who is in charge, people disagree
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What is the norming stage?
Team starting to work well together, team bounces back and forth between storming and norming, establish team ground rules
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What is the performing stage?
High level performance, self directed, accomplish new tasks successfully
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What is the mourning stage?
Sense of accomplishment but reluctance to say goodbye, plan for reunion
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What is front loading?
Providing key learning point before an activity
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What are the benefits of front loading?
Helps participants set a purpose, build on prior knowledge and distributes expertise to the partcipants
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What is debriefing?
An experience that enables participants to connect activities and lessons to the outside world
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What are the benefits of debriefing?
Encourages learner to reflect, describe, analyse and communicate what they experienced, discover meaningful connections
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How do you provide an effective debrief?
Be in a comfortable and safe environment, give sufficient time, be in a circle, set the tone of the answers and tailor to the group
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What should you consider when giving feedback?
Time and place, setting, why are you giving it, specificity
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What should you do when giving feedback?
Be specific, positive, constructive, giving 2 positives and 1 improvement, take on constructive feedback, reflect on session
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What should you not do when giving feedback?
fire off all the negatives, be judgemental, adopt closed off body language, get aggressive when somebody gives you a constructive suggestion
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What is groupthink theory?
When individuals overlook potential problems to reach group consensus
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What should you think about when making a decision as a leader?
balance the safety of participants and the challenge, dynamic changes like weather, etc, willing to make tough decisions, having a back up plan

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