Planning, Leadership & Change
Lifeboat Leader
A short, sharp way to generate discussion about leadership qualitites. With you in the lifeboat are six potential leaders. Which one would you choose?
How it works
Teams are given information on six candidates: their names, ages, occuptions, photographs and personality profiles - one supplied by each of the candidates themselves and a second one supplied by a friend or relative.
Teams must rank the six candidates in order of preference to decide who is best suited to lead in this particular situation - a group thrown together in a lifeboat in an emergency at sea.
What it does
The exercise looks at aspects of an individual's personality, job and lifestyle to get an indication of his or her leadership qualities.? Are some people, who appear to have all the skills of leadership, actually ill-equipped for leadership in certain situations?
As well as being a great discussion exercise about leadership Lifeboat Leader is also ideal for observing group behaviour and works well for selection and recruitment purposes and for team development programmes.
Customer feedback
Very stimulating! Lifeboat Leader is useful for demonstrating leadership styles and it encourages interactive communication and team negotiation - and only takes one hour.
– P. Swinard, Thomas International.
Fun to participate - and very useful debate about leadership qualities.
– J. Bayley, team member.
A thoroughly useful, flexible and adaptable exercise that now has a permanaent place on our training programme.
– F. Lander, Blue Arrow Personnel.