For my day as a leader, our challenge was to do a Leadership Talisman Scavenger Hunt. It was my job to get my team together and have each person on my team consider one lesson from leadership that they find important to them. We had to find a talisman for each leadership lesson and explain why this particular lesson is important for leaders to know, do or be like.
I had eight people on my team and there was a wide range of personalities. There were a few that wanted to take the easy way out and just use one artifact for every leadership lesson, so it was kind of difficult getting them to actually understand the point of the assignment. Once everyone was on the right page with the assignment we went to Trabant and put our minds together to find examples that we could use. Some of the ideas we had were:
- Fun = Popcorn
- Direction = Compass
- Teamwork = Football Stadium
As a leader I think that I could have done a better job at explaining what we needed to do because the confusion in the beginning wasted some of our time. I think that I did a good job at helping my team find what they wanted to use as their lesson and how to represent it with a talisman. I enjoyed being the leader of this challenge because I was put into a situation where I had to adapt to those whom I was working with. I needed to work with everyone’s personality, those who were outspoken and those who were quiet. If I could do this assignment over again I think that I would take a different approach to it and have everyone decide what their lesson would be before we left and started looking for objects. I learned that once you get people into an environment with lots of distractions it’s very difficult to keep their attention on the job at hand. I will be able to tie in what I learned through this leadership challenge in many aspects of my life from now on and I think it was a great learning experience.
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