"the skills you use when organising other people to reach a shared goal."

• Manage a team 💬 - To be a good leader is to be a good people manager! Strong leadership requires you to manage a team of differing skillsets, personalities and priorities in order to achieve the best outcome.
• Communicate effectively 🗣 - When you're in charge of a team, it's your responsibility to make sure they all understand their task and are working towards the same shared goal. The key to this is clear communication.
• Develop your flexibility, organisation and time management skills ⏰ - As a leader, it's your job to delegate tasks fairly and effectively and to keep your team on track to meet deadlines. 
• Develop empathy ❤️- Good leaders are likeable, approachable and able to empathise with those in their team.
• Reach the top rungs of success 📈- The bottom line is that leadership skills are essential for those who aspire to almost any senior role in any career!

Preparation Time:

• Before any Debate Mate debate, students are split into teams and given 15 minutes to prepare in breakout rooms. During this time, they are expected to work as a team to develop a coherent strategy to win the debate. 
• This involves brainstorming points, delegating research, prioritising arguments and allocating speaker roles. 
• To do this effectively, mentors encourage students to take it in turns to lead their preparation time. 
• This gives all of our students a valuable opportunity to practice what is a hugely daunting skill at first- leadership!

Stakeholder Analysis:

• An argument generation technique that we encourage all students to use when confronted with a new debating motion, is stakeholder analysis. 
• This technique involves students brainstorming all of the people or groups who have an interest in the outcome of a debate before analysing and prioritising their relevance to their team line.
• They can then use this analysis to support an argument they're making.
• Stakeholder analysis requires students to manage competing priorities and evaluate the importance of lots of competing claims in order to find the best result. This is a key aspect of leadership!