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While there is much to learn in the classroom, David will provide practical applications to prove your leadership mettle in various activities throughout the week. The initial parts of the program provide intriguing opportunities to create, while later in the week come the more rigorous and courageous undertakings. (I’m not kidding – you should be of sound physical fitness for the challenges ahead, and if you’re afraid of heights…) All in all we offer an exciting week of discovering your personal leadership potential, a most important step as you look to advance the lives of those around you! We hope you’ll consider joining us in beautiful Hokkaido! |
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Leadership Training and Outdoor Challenge
Hokkaido Leadership Academy
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- Albert Einstein
The genesis of the Hokkaido Leadership Academy comes from the Leadership Seminar at the John F. Kennedy School in Berlin, Germany. The seminar is not a “how-to” manual for becoming a leader, but rather an investigation of various themes encompassing the emerging genre of leadership study. Since the publication of James MacGregor Burns’ seminal work Leadership (1981), leadership classes and organizations have blossomed around the U.S., including the nation’s first school of leadership (University of Richmond’s Jepson School of Leadership Studies), from whose curricula several of our ideas are taken. Leadership classes at the high school level are still relatively new, however, though leadership positions and opportunities abound. For the purposes of HoLA, I have culled what I think are the best and most essential lessons in the field to share with our aspiring leaders.
During the course of the week, our seminar will investigate a variety of themes within the discipline of leadership. After identifying what Burns calls the “crisis of leadership,” students begin an examination of the psychological factors that may impact leaders of the future, including readings and/or references to Gandhi, Freud, Roosevelt, and other famous (and infamous) political leaders. While that unit concludes with a personality-type analysis, our studies forge on with teachings from Stephen Covey, Dale Carnegie, Collins & Porras, Tom Peters and many others concerning a wide variety of topics including interpersonal communication and speech-making, emotional intelligence, decision-making, group dynamics, courage and risk-taking, charisma, and developing a vision. A general syllabus is available (link TBA).
