Girl Guide and Girl Scout Leadership Model
The Girl Guide and Girl Scout Leadership Model is the foundation for how we practice leadership at all stages of our journey in Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting. The model uses a system of six mindsets as the main tool to make leadership practice conscious and to influence reactions, reflections, choices and behaviours. The more we reflect on our daily behaviours using the six leadership mindsets, the more we can make our leadership conscious and lead with purpose. Over time, leadership practice becomes part of who we are. It helps us grow as leaders in any role, both inside and outside the Movement.
Why is the Girl Guide and Girl Scout Leadership Model important?
Offering space to practice leadership using the Girl Guide and Girl Scout Leadership Model is key to our approach to supporting personal growth, particularly considering our vision of a Movement where every and any girl feels confident to lead and empowered to create a better world together. Leadership practice contributes to learners developing the eight growth outcomes and is an essential foundation for active global citizenship. Our leadership model recognises that an individual’s ways of being and thinking about the world are the foundation of who they are as a leader. Through active reflective practice, it helps learners navigate complex situations and diverse environments with greater understanding and empathy, and be prepared to lead with purpose towards a better world. Leadership practice is relevant for everyone, from the youngest youth member to the most senior adult volunteer, Our model challenges the traditional and limiting definitions of leadership as skills acquired over time, through special training, or being restricted to a special position, role or title. By making leadership practice accessible to all, empowering everyone to feel more confident to see themselves as leaders, and seeing leadership as a shared journey, it creates the conditions for meaningful youth participation and supports us towards becoming a girl and young women-led Movement.
When learning experiences are facilitated by good leaders, who are on the journey of self-improvement and practise leadership using the six mindsets, they have a deeper impact on learners, who can identify and be inspired by positive leadership behaviours. When the same learning experiences also give opportunities to learners to practise leadership themselves using the six mindsets, it contributes to learners developing the eight growth outcomes.
You can learn more about the Girl Guide & Girl Scout Leadership Model in the Campfire course.