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Unit 2 Arts Leadership - Silver Arts Award Unit 2 Part E: review the project & leadership role

What leadership skills have you developed?
Confidence in my art skills,  and I have helped others achieve similar skills.  I gained more confidence in communicating and being able to make people focus on their drawing.

What have you learnt about being a good leader?
I need to be confident in what I can do. I learned how to use my personal inspiration and creativity to communicate and teach others about art.

Refer back to your original project plan. Did anything happen differently to what you originally planned? If so, what and how?
It lasted longer; and I didn't expect to have to help out so much.

Is there anything you’d do differently in the future if you were to run the project again?
I would add more to my presentation, as explaining certain art skills is difficult to do.

What parts of your project plan worked well?
Participants were able to follow the structure and participate as I had planned.

Was there anything that didn’t work so well?
All things worked particularly well.

What was your favourite part of the leadership project?
My favourite part was looking at the participants' improvements, and seeing how their skills had developed.

Which things did you find most challenging?
Having the confidence to begin was really challenging, but as I went on, I became more and more confident.

What have you learnt about working with other people?
You have to keep people focused, otherwise it distracts the group as a whole.  I got people to focus by explaining that they won't be able to learn and finish the lesson in the time we had available (about 2 hours)

What was the feedback from other people about your project and your role as a leader?





What do you think about this feedback?
I am pleased with the feedback. It helps me understand what I did well. It helped me become more confident in my leadership and teaching skills.

Feedback on the Leadership challenge and overall Arts Award from visitors to the blog

Geraldine B: A lot of dedication and it is brilliant well done xxx onwards and upwards xx

Claire S: Really well set out and as a result really easy to read through. Great artistic and creative talent. Love the before and after eye drawings, shows just how well you passed on your skills. Really well done. I hope you continue to pursue your love of art xx

Nicola T: A great blog Lily, well presented, the before and after pictures of the participants drawings were particularly good as they show their individual progress after their art session with you. Well done.

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