This document outlines preparatory activities for a leadership journey program. It instructs participants to do a personal SWOT analysis to understand their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. It encourages participants to look within and have an idea of who they are and their potential and limitations. It challenges participants to constantly try to understand themselves as they experience successes and failures in life. Understanding oneself fully is important for growth in life's journey.

1. NCA Leadership Journey Batch 7
Preparatory Activity 1
July 30, 2012

2. WELCOME!
We have prepared several activities for you
to prepare you for the program. We don’t
want you to feel uncomfortable when we
do the Leadership Journey.

3. “TUNING IN”
• Imagine a guitar.
• For it to make beautiful music, its strings
have to be ‘in tune’.
• If one of the strings is out of tune, it wouldn’t
sound nice, would it?
• Thus, musicians carefully listen to each
string, putting each in its place to make
beautiful melody and harmony

4. YOU AND THE PROGRAM
• Treat the program as your dance partner.
• In order for you to take all the experience
in, you have to be in tune with it.
• For you to be able to embrace the
messages, you have to practice with it a
couple of times before you ‘dance’ with it.

5. IF YOU’RE READY TO TUNE
IN, LET’S START

6. TO START THE FIRST
ACTIVITY, LET’S WATCH
BOYCE AVENUE’S VERSION OF
KATY PERRY’S FIREWORK

7. DID YOU LIKE THE SONG?
WHAT DOES THE SONG SAY
TO YOU?

8. WHAT’S YOUR MOST
FAVORITE LINE? WHY?

9. YOU DON’T HAVE TO FEEL A
WASTE OF SPACE. YOU DON’T
HAVE TO FEEL LIKE YOU’RE
NOTHING ON THIS PLANET.

10. LIKE A FIREWORK, YOU WILL
IGNITE THIS WORLD.
I GUESS, THE SONG WANTS
YOU TO LOOK WITHIN– TO
FIND THAT DEEPEST DESIRE
AND SHARE THAT TO YOUR
WORLD.

11. PERSONAL SWOT

12. FOR THIS ACTIVITY, THAT’S
WHAT WE WOULD LIKE YOU
TO DO – LOOK WITHIN.

13. WE’D LIKE YOU TO HAVE A
BUCKET LIST. LIKE A
BUSINESS ORGANIZATION,
HAVE A PERSONAL SWOT.

14. Strengths Weaknesses
-What are your gifts, talents, -What are your weaknesses,
ideas, achievements, failures, embarrassments?
blessings?
Opportunities Threats
-What are your desires, -What are your fears,
ambitions and dreams? concerns, burden right now?

15. WAS IT EASY DOING YOUR
PERSONAL SWOT? HARD?
WHY?

16. LOOK BACK AT YOUR SWOT.
WHAT ARE YOU MOST PROUD
OF? WHAT ARE YOU MOST
EMBARRASSED ABOUT?

17. WHAT ARE THE COMMON
THEMES IN YOUR LIFE?
WHAT ARE THE PATTERNS?
WHY IS THAT SO?

18. THE FIRST STEP IN THIS
PROGRAM IS FOR YOU TO
HAVE AN IDEA OF YOURSELF,
WHO YOU ARE, WHAT YOU
CAN DO AND CANNOT DO,
YOUR POTENTIAL AND
LIMITATIONS.

19. IN LIFE’S JOURNEY, EVERY
EXPERIENCE WILL EITHER
MAKE OR BREAK YOU. NOT
KNOWING YOURSELF FULLY
WILL HINDER YOU IN
GROWING.

20. THE CHALLENGE FOR US IS
TO CONSTANTLY TRY TO
GRAPPLE WITH OURSELVES—
TO KNOW WHO WE ARE AS
WE EXPERIENCE TRIUMPHS
AND FAILURES, SUCCESS AND
HEARTACHES.

21. NCA Leadership Journey Batch 7
Preparatory Activity 1
July 30, 2012