How are leadership skills acquired?
An important characteristic of successful leadership skills is that they are learned by experience. They are not instinctive and they are not taught. How many business professors do we know who cannot run successful businesses? How many times do we see CEOs without business training running a flashy business by the seat of their pants until they get thrown in jail? Think Enron here… Our young women will participate in a great many leadership workshops of many types. In order to give them a broad experience, young women are assigned males to be led on a rotatiing basis. Each young woman will also lead groups of other young women and of males in various stages of training in order to experience situations firsthand and learn to react to them. Young women will need to work together and alone to complete the tasks required. Some tasks will be quite challenging, and immediate assessments will need to be made for the projects to succeed. Tasks are designed not merely to be “team-building”,
