Leading your

Student Group

Leadership & Team

Work Name and Role

1. Understand what makes a good committee meeting

2. Understand what makes a good general meeting

3. Describe and explain what makes a good leader

4. Discuss your experience of good/bad leadership

Session Objectives

Your Journey as a Society

10 min

Visualising success

What a meeting

looks/feels/sounds

like

Visualisation

• Performance is 90% visualisation

• What is visualisation?

• How does this affect me?

Visualising your first meeting:

Committee member

10 min

*Task* Close your eyes (yes, really!)

Visualise what your ideal committee meeting looks

like; listen to what I’m saying and imagine what it

looks, sounds and feels like. You have 10 minutes; 5

minutes to visualise, 5 minutes to discuss what you

found with the group.

Visualising your first meeting:

New member

Now do the same, but imagine you are a

new member walking into your first ever

meeting. What does it looks, sounds and

feel like?

Good, Bad and the Ugly

Your Past

Experience

Camping Trip (Exmore)

(aged 15)

• Leading a team of 5

• Left base at 9am

• Should return by 4pm

• Did not arrive until

6pm

Kerri’s Leadership Experience

What went wrong?

• Limited preplanning

• Did not ask someone else's

thoughts on the route before left

• Did not ask anyone else on my team

for help

• No one on my team questioned me

• Did not share division of work

Kerri’s Leadership Experience

Fencing club Casino night

• End of year social

• Committee of 5 (Kerri led the

project, social secretary)

• Casino night (low stake tables

and food)

• Limousine

• 30people attended

• Sold tickets

• Made money for the club

Why was it a success

• Good communication

• Delegation of tasks (help

with marketing and money)

• Negotiations with casino

• Support from committee

• Previous events

In groups of 4 -6

• Each give an example of a good and bad

leadership experience

• Can be about ANYTHING!

• Why did was it good or bad?

• What did you learn?

On the Flip Chart Paper

• Common themes for good and bad

• Someone to present to the whole group

Your Turn

10 min

Leading your

Student Group

Leadership & Team

Work Name and Role

*Task*

Identify in groups of 3 or 4 as many

good and bad leaders as you can think

of. You have 3 minutes.

3 min

Good or Bad leader?

Good or Bad leader?

Good or Bad leader?

Good or Bad leader?

Good or Bad leader?

Good or Bad leader?

Good or Bad leader?

Good or Bad leader?

Good or Bad leader?

Good or Bad Leader?

You should now be able to:

1. Understand what makes a good committee meeting

2. Understand what makes a good general meeting

3. Discuss your experience of good/bad leadership

4. Describe the qualities of and explain what makes a good

leader

Summary

Looking ahead

• Union Day (21st – 22nd Sept)

• Attend the next Societies’/AU

Committee

• Have a meeting with one of us to go

over ideas

• Report back to Committee

• Schedule in Committee meetings to

plan for the year ahead

• Questions? Email:

Sport:

luke.green@northampton.ac.uk

Societies:

Kristie.thacker@northampton.ac.uk