Aims, Purposes, and Methods

These pages describe the aims and methods of the White Stag Leadership Development Program^TM . Before we describe the substance of these ideas, we must first understand the terms themselves.

Aims

The organizing principles of White Stag along with our principles of leadership form our organizational philosophy, or our aims. The aims form a model that promotes positive development of individual character, attributes of citizenship, and emotional fitness: in other words, leadership.

Methods

These aims are achieved via specific methods, or what we call a process of "leadership development by design using the Patrol Method." Leadership development by design can occur when we identify the outcomes desired and the means by which we will reach these outcomes. One of our key methods is using structured learning activities, or hurdles.

Content

The leadership competencies is our content. They are summarized in "the Eleven Leadership Skills". You can also review the objectives for each competency.

The interrelationship of these three axis—the aims, methods, and the content—can best be illustrated as a three-dimensional matrix, as shown in the figure below.