Leadership Conversation Questions

Warm-up Questions:
Are you a good speaker?
Are you a good listener?

Discussion Questions:

1. Who are some leaders in your country? Consider areas like politics, sports, business, religion, etc.
2. Does your family have a leader or is leadership shared among several people?
3. Which leaders do you admire from the past?
4. What makes a great leader? What characteristics should they have?
5. Do some of your friends have leadership qualities? Talk about what they do and those qualities.
6. Do you think great leaders are born or made through experience?
7. Are first-born children more likely to have leadership qualities than their younger brothers and sisters?
8. Should the oldest person in a group be the leader? Why or why not?
9. What is the difference between a manager and a leader?

10. Are you more of a leader or more of a follower? Put your answer into a ratio if you can (e.g. 60:40).
11. Do good leaders need to be good public speakers? Why or why not?
12. What sorts of problems do business leaders need to deal with?
13. How does leadership in sport relate to winning?
14. Think about the bosses or teachers that you have had. Among them, who was the best leader?
15. This is an expression in English: too many cooks spoil the broth (broth is a type of soup). What do you think this expression means?
16. Is leadership more about power or more about responsibility?
17. Can society exist without leaders? What would be good and bad about having no leaders?