HappyMinds Leadership Academy Session on developing Listening Skills.

This week the sessions at HappyMinds Leadership Academy focused on developing Good Communication Skills in Scholars and Leaders. We decided to do Speaking and Listening Skills which is an integral part of any Communication.

For Scholars we began the session explaining them the importance of communication and its process. This was explained by narrating stories. They learnt to narrate stories effectively by giving an Introduction of Characters, incorporating voice modulation and practicing the tone. We also played videos targeted to develop their Listening skills. Doing varied activities with kids has always been our keen interest. Thus, we designed various activities to help children understand why is listening so important for good communication.

For Leaders we began with an Introduction of the idea of sharing important current affair news in the beginning of each session. Leaders were asked to make a secret note to share their problems. For the activity we divided the students in different Political parties and asked them to prepare a campaign for their party to promote for elections. They were given a brief on the Lok-Sabha election process. Apart from knowledge about elections, these sessions help children learn Teamwork skills such as listening, sharing, participating, taking ownership and being responsible.

We feel Joyous when children participate and perform these activities with interest and develop these skills with practice.