TEAMWORK & LEADERSHIP COURSE

ACT VENTURERS

Teamwork and Leadership

What do we mean by leadership

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“preparing ethical, collaborative, resilient, and trusted, team members and leaders, who will lead with confidence and humility, while enabling their team and each of its members to succeed”.

Key attributes

To enable that outcome for Venturers the course identifies the key attributes being sought as follows:

• Unit Council ready
• Capable project planner
• Resilient and self managed
• Trusted to lead
• Valuable team member
• Works well with others
• Communicates effectively

Course Content

The course is made up of 7 modules, each of which is delivered through 1 or more sessions.

• Course Introduction (1)
• Foundation Skills (1)
• Working Relationships (3)
• Practical Teamwork (3)
• Project Planning (3)
• Ethical Leadership (3)
• Review and Presentation (2)

Foundation skills

All sessions follow the same format

• Nominated team leader briefs the team - 5 minutes
• Activity - 40 minutes
• Personal reflection - 5 minutes
• Break - 10 minutes

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Foundation skills

There are some skills which will help you be organised and manage the stress that you are subject to.

• Basics of organisation
• The RACI Matrix
• Inbox Zero
• Kanban - Task tracking

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Working relationships

There are serious benefits to understanding and imprint your working relationships

• Benefits of diversity
• Positive psychology in leadership
• Case study and applications of positive leadership
• Evaluating and improving

Practical teamwork

The course includes 3 practical sessions

• A nominated team leader briefing - 5 minutes
• Team challenge - 30 minutes
• Teamwork guided evaluation - 10 minutes
• Reflection - 5 minutes
• Break - 10 minutes

Project planning

During the course your team will plan a major activity

• Scope and project definition
• Preparation of project management plan
• Completion of project management plan

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Ethical leadership

Teams will review scenario based case studies

• Process driven problem solving
• Ethical tests that help you know you have done the right thing
• Legal and policy requirements
• Facilitated hypotheticals

The exhibition

Each team needs to give a presentation on Sunday that shows:

• Your team project plan
• Destination, itinerary, budget, timeframes, etc

And in respect to the course over all ..

• What your team has learned
• What your team does well
• What your team finds challenging
• What your team will be working on after the course

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The workbook

The workbook includes:

• Space for you to record key points you have learned
• What you have learned
• What you do well
• What you find challenging
• What you will be working on after the course

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Course Leaders

We have an extremely experienced and diverse course leader team.

• Hannah - Assistant Venturer Leader Crowajinaling
• Sam - Assistant Scout Leader LGSS
• Ben - Venturer Commissioner
• Liz - Branch Activity Leader
• Niven - Venturer Leader Wanniassa
• Max - Venturer Program Advisor
• Holly - Assistant Venturer Commissioner
• Beth - Former BVC Chair
• Pat - Child Protection Commissioner

Arrangements

We have some housekeeping.

• Camping and Catering
• Bathrooms and facilities
• Consent and respect (page 14 in your participants handbook)
• Agreed expectations
• COVID Safe Protocols

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COVID Safe Protocols

• Sanitise before meals
• Wipe down tables before meals
• Maintain 1.5 metre physical distancing where practical
• Attempt to keep to team & cabin social bubbles wherever possible
• Masks available if you feel the need for one
• Don’t touch other people’s stuff

Consent & Respect

Consent

• Consent has a legal meaning
• Consent is freely given

Respect

• Physical contact requires consent
• Don’t touch personal belongings
• Not sharing overheard personal conversations
• Not sharing details of things you have seen
• Taking and sharing of intimate photos is a crime

Questions?