Youth Leadership

Growing Leaders is designed to:

• teach young people about leadership
• encourage young people to pursue leadership roles in sport and recreation
• give young people self-confidence and leadership tools for life.

Growing Leaders can be used to develop a broad range of leadership roles: team captains, prefects, peer leaders, coaches, managers, sports administrators, sport and recreation officials, and outdoor recreation leaders.

The Growing Leaders resource can be used in a range of settings – physical education classes, school sports programmes, outdoor education trips, lunchtime and after school recreation activities, sport and recreation clubs, and youth groups.

How does the resource work?

Growing Leaders consists of four learning stages:
1. Explore
2. Discover
3. Navigate
4. Empower

Each of the stages in Growing Leaders includes activities that cover a set of themes and sub themes relating to leadership.

Participants are awarded a certificate as they successfully completes each of the learning stages. 

The resource include:
.  facilitator’s guide
.  learning activities with facilitator’s notes
.  a ‘Leader ThinkTank’ document that provides additional leadership information   
.  student certificates for each stage completed 
.  a series of PowerPoint presentations for facilitators

Who can use the resource and facilitate Growing Leaders?

Growing Leaders facilitators are:

• primary, intermediate, and secondary school teachers
• school sport and recreation co-ordinators
• sport and recreation co-ordinators
• sport and recreation coaches, leaders, and administrators  
• recreation officers based in local body councils
• youth group leaders (for example Boys and Girls Brigade, Guides, Scouts)
• church groups that run youth programmes

Where can I get the Growing Leaders resource from?

You can purchase a hardcopy or you can download the resources free of charge.

Hardcopy

Click here to purchase hardcopies of the Growing Leaders resources: Sport NZ Store   

Download

Click here to download the resources free of charge: Growing Leaders Resources

Growing Leaders Facilitator Training

If you would like to participate in a Growing Leaders Facilitator Workshop so that you can best utilise the Growing Leaders resources and implement the Growing Leaders Programme contact your local  Regional Sports Trust for more information.