Discernment 3: Leadership Qualities

What makes a good leader?
Today we considered people who we think are good leaders. We tried to break the qualities of good leaders into a set of criteria, then we were able to put this into a chart and fill it out for the people we know who would make good leaders of our school next year. This is in no way connected with the actual selection of our school and house leaders for 2015, but we realised how hard it must be for the staff to make the choices.
We tried to decipher what it is that a school leader has to do - what their job entails - and then work out what skills would be useful in these situations.
The big three
We had a really interesting discussion about The Big Three. We realised that we can broadly classify a lot of our personal skills into three categories: social, physical and academic skills. We represented this as a triangle. Most of us lean towards one or two of these corners of the triangle, and it was neat trying to work out where we each think we fall.  The best leaders are likely to be found within the group of people who have skills in all three areas - and of course this way they can relate to people from all walks of life.

Discernment 2: Artworks

Today we had a look at some artworks from a specific era, and compared them. At first it was difficult to say why we did or didn't like a piece of art, but slowly through our group discussion we came to have a list of criteria in our heads which might help us to sift through our choices.
We were about to write this up as a table, and we chose six pieces of art to put through our rigorous marking schedule.
At the end of our work, we each had a distinct favourite of the artwork selection, but we could also say specifically why we liked it the most.
Having an opinion is all well and good, but all opinions need to be backed up with some consideration.