YOUNG LEADERS DEVELOPMENT COURSE

RATIONALE

The design and structure of this `personal-development-of-our-young-and-potential-leaders' course is largely based on the premise that: the current practice in schools, of appointing pupils with leadership potential as prefects, class-monitors, and leaders and managers of school-clubs and societies is effective in providing them with early training in the practice of leadership and management. The experiences gained usually result in very profound lasting effects even into their subsequent working lives. This practice has certain limitations, however. Among them being:

1. Because these selected pupils are normally not equipped, at the same time, with established and proven concepts, theories and principles in the elements and essentials of management, leadership and effective teamworking including inter-personal relations, they usually could only discharge these additional responsibilities through `trials and errors'. At times, some of these pupils never found the `correct solutions' at all, even throughout the many years of their school-days;
   
   
2. Normally, they are selected only from among those already good in their academic studies. However, because they would then have to do things through trial and error due to their not being equipped with the `science' of time management and other basic elements of management such as delegations, etc., much of their precious times and energies are wasted and their studies subsequently affected;
   
   
3. Because they are not equipped with concepts, theories and principles of interpersonal relations, very often they make enemies from among their school-mates whilst at school, instead of being able to use the opportunities to create future networking for a more effective inter-department/organisational working later on in their lives;
   
   
4. Only about 10-15% of these pupils would have the opportunities for this early training, whereas there are definitely a larger number of them who too have the potential to be developed into equally good leaders if given similar opportunities;
   
   
5. Also that, many pupils waste a lot of their time, energies and opportunities before they achieve what they want or what are good for them. This is mainly because their efforts to achieve their goals are not focused due to their lack of knowledge in the `scientific processes' of goal setting and goal seeking.

The limitations as discussed could be addressed, it is felt, by providing these selected pupils with courses and/or programmes that integrate the exposures to them of esta-blished and proven concepts, principles and theories, with `structured experiential' exercises. This should assist in their understanding and assimilation of these two inter-related aspects through the immediate validation processes that would be attendant to such courses and/or programmes.

CONCEPT OF CONDUCT OF COURSE

The basic concept of this Course is to facilitate for the development of selected school pupils through an integration of an experiential learning management, leadership and team-working course, with processes to equip them with essential `scientific' concepts, theories and principles of management, leadership, teamwork and other `foundationary' elements of personal development. 

SUMMARY OF CONDUCT OF COURSE

The Courses, on the whole, will be conducted in a highly fun-way but with underlying delivery of profound learning points. In summary, the objectives of these courses can be said as:

1. To introduce and expose participants to some of the basic theories, concepts and principles of management, leadership and effective teamworking, including interpersonal relations
   
   
2. To provide them with actual and realistic events, happenings and experiences that will enable them to have practical illustrations and linkages to the concepts, theories and principles that are taught to them, particularly through the reflection-sessions that will be held after the events.
   
   
3. To facilitate for their early networking for better future interdepartmental/ organisational relations resulting from this early forging of comradeship.

PiBian’s methodology is to package the imparting of learning-points through courses that are founded upon events and activities of high-adventure and of the impacts of the natural elements. Thus, they use the elements of the rapids (for white-water rafting), the jungles (for mission-oriented overnight expeditions to accomplish team's missions/tasks), the wall and the high-ropes (for abseiling and the flying-fox), etc. These are some of the activities proven to appeal to most young people.

The ideal is the 5 days/ 4 nights Course. It will allow for sufficient `instructional in-putting’ of concepts, theories and principles which can then be validated repeatedly through practical exercises to test for their degrees of assimilation.

The fees are RM850.00 per person. PiBi needs at least 40 participants to conduct such a Course. Otherwise, it would not be able to cover even costs.

All course fees include all professional & training-fees; all foods & drinks throughout; accommodation; rentals of outdoor equipment; and all transportation-costs within the training areas; and premiums for PA insurance.

Participants need to pay for their own transportation costs to/from the training-sit, though.

MODULE 5

TYPICAL DETAILED PROGRAMME
FOR YOUTH LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT COURSE
(THE 5 DAYS / 4 NIGHTS COURSE

Day/date/time	Event	Remarks
Day 1
About 11 am	Participants arrive  Opening Formalities, Followed by setting-up of own-tents For accommodations. Accommodations are twin-sharing
	Ice-Breaking Exercise  (Tutorials and practicals in managing-relationships and working-with-others)
	Lunch
2.30pm	Personal Development Exercise 1 – Abseiling	Preceded by Talks on theories, concepts and principles of effects of fears and phobias and the techniques of managing them. Followed by Dinner
8 pm	1st Talk-Session on: Time Management; Communication; and Simple Problem-solving. Followed by: Team exercise to apply concepts; theories and principles of the above. Teams discuss their actions and processes they employ during exercise.
11 pm	Sleep

Day/date/time	Event	Remarks
Day 5
7.30 am	Breakfasts.
8 am	Reflection Session 2 on actions and processes employed by participants in dealing with activities throughout the course
10 am	Personal Development 3 and 4- Followed by Lunch & Flying-fox. And White-water Rafting
2.30 pm	Analysis for Lessons-learnt followed by Presentations of Findings of Analyses
5 pm	Closing Formalities	Include: Certificate Presentation