Early Leadership Training and Its Relationship to Communication Skills, Self-Esteem, and Problem Solving Skills among Adolescents
The research study explored the efficient of the youth leadership programs in Charleston County. The methodology applied to this study is a qualitative embedded case study, which answers the what, how and or why questions of social phenomenon. The researcher conducted interviews with eight previous participants of youth leadership programs. The results of the interviews will be reported in this chapter.
Results
The purpose of the qualitative embedded case study was to explore the perceptions of participants who previously participated in an adolescent’s leadership training program on how the program influenced their self-esteem building, communication skills, and problem-solving skills within Charleston County in South Carolina.
The research questions therein were what are the perceptions of the training program and experiences of past participants of adolescents’ leadership training program, what are the perceptions of past participants on how the adolescents’ leadership training program affected their communication skills, what are the perceptions of past participants on how the adolescents’ leadership training program affected their self-esteem, and what are the perceptions of past participants on how the adolescents’ leadership training program affected their problem-solving skills?
To answer these research questions, 8 response questionnaires were received from volunteer respondents who were randomly chosen and anonymously answered the questions in the questionnaires. The respondents were chosen from a pool of people who had previously undergone the youth leadership programs and were willing to share their experience and the influence this training had on them.
From the data collected in the questionnaires, it can be seen that most of the respondents are people who underwent the adolescent leadership training in the past. This goes hand in hand with the fact that most of the respondents have been in leadership positions even though most of them have been in the job industry for a relatively short period of time. It is indicated from the statistics that 75% of the respondents have been in some leadership position within their organizations. As a matter of fact, 63% of...
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