Day 10 of the ICL Leadership Academy provided our ICL Fellows with an amazing experience that they won’t soon forget: The 2011 ICL Boat Race Showdown.
Today’s activity was designed around concepts of teamwork and group-based leadership. While these terms might have seemed “old hat” at first, the ICL Fellows soon realized that they were harder to get a grasp on than originally expected.
At the ICL Leadership Academy, the leaders of tomorrow are given the tools to help them reach any number of goals. Each ICL Fellow came into this experience with a history of community service projects, personal aspirations, and professional ambitions. And while this course has provided each and every one of them with the knowledge and means to reach those individual achievements, the real test comes in how they will apply these teachings in an environment with competing ambitions.
The theme of the day was leadership in a team setting. While having goals is great, arriving at an end destination is difficult without the ability to work constructively with other people and their ambitions. Leadership can be a tricky thing… and with eight leaders on each team, the ability to listen, accept, and concede for the greater good becomes paramount to the success of the collective.
Case in point — a cardboard boat is only as strong as the sum of all its parts. Hmmm… there might be a lesson in that somewhere.
While this might have been one of the most fun days of the Academy, it was also one full of hands on real-world training. Watch the video from Race day and read our ICL Fellows’ blogs to get a better sense of everything they learned today!
