Rotary Youth Leadership Awards Camp

RYLA PAMPHLET designed by Patrick McElhiney

Purposes of the Rotary Youth Leadership Awards Camp

The program emphasis is upon activities to focus on the development of the attributes of leadership in all walks of life.

• Not skills and techniques

• No right answer

• A laboratory of experience to change how the participant feels

• Relate subject matter to participants own experience

 A DEFINITION: CORE OF LEADERSHIP ACTIVITY

By Merrill Kelby

The essence of the leader’s task lies in the ability to face a situation, identify its elements or principal factors and what they mean, to analyze its trends and variations and to select those for reinforcement or retardation, conceive and formulate a program of action to accomplish this, motivate people to carry out such a program, and design measurements and controls to evaluate the results.

 THE PROGRAM WILL EMPHASIZE:

1. Experience in democratic living

2. Ideals of conduct and service

3. Additional career insight

4. Challenges to accept responsibilities of leadership

 OBJECTIVES OF RYLA

To encourage the development of sound values and a system of values which will provide a basis of insight and understanding or intelligent leadership in a free society:

1. By careful selection of young leaders with outstanding leadership potential;

2. By exposing youth leaders to some of the more important opportunities and challenges of the world of tomorrow;

3. By intellectual involvement which encourages youth leaders to think through and arbitrate conflicts of value;

4. By promoting an environment and situations where an individual can apply leadership concepts and, thus, learn by doing.