The Girl Guide and Girl Scout Leadership Model uses a system of six mindsets as the main tool to make leadership practice conscious and deliberate.
Each mindset is like a pair of glasses that we put on and look through to consider different perspectives and consciously influence our reactions, reflections, choices and behaviours. By using the six leadership mindsets, we become more aware of our leadership practice, and we can “internalise” leadership behaviours until they become a habit. The mindsets ultimately become part of who we are as leaders.
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When we consciously practise the leadership mindsets, we get into the habit of taking different aspects of context into account in any situation. As a result, we adjust our choices and actions. We believe that if every leader, at every level in Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting, practises the leadership mindsets, they will be more prepared to achieve the purpose of the Movement.
The mindsets take us on a journey that uses reflection to draw meaning from experience, explores that meaning from different angles, and translates what we learn into responsible actions for us to take. The relevance of each mindset will change according to the situation, and we can draw on different mindsets, or combinations of mindsets, at different times.
This approach is especially useful for WAGGGS because of the diversity of our Movement. Each mindset can be adapted to the individual role and context of the leader, and the mindsets grow as we grow our leadership practice.