Leadership is one of the core competencies Raleigh seeks to develop in every Venturer. Whether you’re looking to boost your life-skills or build your CV, a Raleigh Expedition is the perfect place to find confidence and clarity in guiding a team.
If you want to be someone who can:
At every stage of a Raleigh Expedition, you’ll have the opportunity to challenge and strengthen your leadership abilities. From the moment you book, development begins.
Great leaders aren’t made overnight. The fundraising journey is deliberately designed as your first leadership challenge, asking you to plan strategically, communicate persuasively and motivate those around you, all before you’ve even left home.
The Day Leader programme operates across the entire Expedition, giving each Venturer the opportunity to grow their group management skills and shoulder new responsibilities. During the Adventure Phase, you’ll take it in turns to lead – managing the group as you traverse wild and challenging terrain.
Planning
In the Field
You’ll also be learning how to lead in Community and Environmental projects. There’ll be the chance to hone existing abilities through taking charge of small groups, plus you’ll gain valuable insights from Project Partners and Venturer Managers, who’ll include the whole group in their strategy sessions. Perhaps most valuably, you’ll be:
On project, you’ll be working with a cast of people who all have different priorities — community members, local project partners, and Venturer Managers. Learning to communicate effectively with each of them, understand what they need, and find common ground is one of the most transferable leadership skills there is.
Your work on project has a real impact on a real community. That changes things. The responsibility you feel when a family is waiting for a classroom to be finished, or a conservation target needs to be hit, is a different kind of motivation — and a different kind of leadership — to anything you’ll find in a training exercise.
Projects don’t always go to plan. Conditions change, resources shift, and sometimes the right answer isn’t obvious. Learning to make sound decisions with incomplete information — and to take responsibility for those decisions — is one of the most valuable things project life at Raleigh will teach you.
