Leadership Challenge™ | Leadership Training Activity

• Allows teams to experience leadership in action
• Highlights qualities of good leadership
• Stresses importance of team briefing and setting objectives for a team
• Provides a platform to discuss leadership styles

In this table-top simulation each team first chooses a leader. Each leader is given a £500 budget, a map and 10 minutes to familiarise themselves with the Brief. During this period the rest of the team completes a questionnaire about leadership qualities – for discussion later.

Essentially teams must collect as many points as possible by visiting places on a map. Leaders, with their own chosen style of leadership, brief their teams and oversee the activity. Information on costs such as ferry timetables, time and distance and overnight accommodation are available on request – but information costs money – and eats into a tight budget!

1. Ask each team to nominate a leader. Take the leaders to an area and give them the briefing papers which they can study but cannot take back to their teams
2. Meanwhile the teams are drawing up a profile of what makes a good leader. Leaders return to their teams and brief them – from their notes.
3. Observe teams in action.
4. After the alloted time, stop the activity and check teams' chosen routes. Finally, issue Routes Cards for teams to check their routes themselves - and announce the winning team.
5. Lead a Debrief supported by the Trainer’s Notes and PowerPoint presentation.

Full guidance supplied in the Trainer’s Notes.

• Trainer’s Notes
• Trainers PowerPoint
• Trainer's Reference: The Routes
• Handout: What Makes a Good Leader?
• Briefing Folders including Sketch Maps
• Information Sheets
• Data Request Forms
• Route Planner
• Routes Card

This activity is for face-to-face classroom use. It is supplied as a hard copy pack and the digital files are supplied via the Northgate Trainerhub.

This Northgate Training activity comes with a five-year licence for repeat use with up to 24 participants at a time, for use by Trainers based at one licence-holding site.

All Trainers physically based at the same office location can access the Northgate resources during the five-year term, including the digital resources supplied on the Trainerhub via your own site-specific Trainer Dashboard. If you have Trainers based at other locations, and/or remote workers, who would like to access and use the Northgate resources, we can advise further depending on your requirements.

For further information on our licence terms please view the Northgate Licence Agreement.