Leadership Quests: A Student-Led Experiential Competition

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Keywords: Teamwork, self-awareness, experiential learning cycle

Abstract: This semester-long experiential activity for organizational behavior, leadership, and human resources courses, engages students more deeply in course content by asking teams to run a leadership quest competition. Each team is assigned a different topic and leads other teams in the four steps of the learning cycle (experiencing, reflecting, thinking, and acting), in which the experiencing stage is designed as a competition between teams. During the session, participants will engage in a demo version of this activity, gaining insights for implementing it in their own courses. We will also share a workbook designed to support teams in this course assignment.