Tim's Computer Science Blog

Recently I was invited to conduct a leadership workshop at California State University of Monterey Bay for the Networking and Security Team. They wanted the training to focus in on getting things done, so I put together a few fun training activities that help with communication, self-direction, teamwork, and having more effective meetings. Activities build leaders faster than lectures in my experience. Check out the slides and try a few of the activities for yourself! When talking about leadership a general discussion about what a leader is, is in order. When asked many of the participants shared ideas such as "A leader is someone who gets things done", "Someone who steps up", "An active listener", "Leaders are people that others follow". We didn't get too deep into what a leader was in this training and focused more on a few of the skills. If you are interested in diving a little deeper into some of the details of leadership i've foun...

I recently put on a leadership workshop. There are multiple styles of and theories of leadership, but here are a few that i've found useful. The better part of this workshop though were the activities that followed it. You see training people to be leaders isn't as straight forward a task like training a manager might be, so rather than just lecturing all day the real goal was to have a series of activities that help develop leadership skill by doing them. It also helps that it's fun to do it this way! The slides have more than the video It's interesting that my post on Leadership Training seems to consistently get views vs this one on Leadership Development. I'm guessing it's because of the topic title & the fact that i've written a description. (So let's update this post and see what happens). Might as well add my Officer Management slides developed for the Network Security Team (Club at CSUMB) after this. All three of the presentations have rel...