The Leadership Setup of your Team

[Lisa Perez]

On 830, we basically have it set up so that the students are placed in charge of different projects through the season. For example, there will be the group that will always be working on build, and will take other students and show them what to do. Of the students working on the nonbuild projects, each person is held responsible for organizing something different, be it a bake sale, communication with the sponsors, scouting, etc.

It is a little less formal in that students are not exactly defined as leaders at the beginning of the season. But it also gives each and every single one of the students the opportunity to step up and be a leader while getting advice from the mentors.

If you are looking for something more formal (and something that would probably work better with a larger group), when I was on 573, we had set student leaders for the various subgroups, who would be responsible for communicating with their mentors to create a plan for said subgroups. We had a student project manager, who was in charge of making sure all of the plans were compatible and feasible and served as the main representative for the team.