What Makes a Good Leader?! (Conversation Club)

This week the ‘Thinking in English’ Community is talking about what makes a good leader!

This year, around the world, a number of countries will be electing new people to lead their countries. So, what better time than now to talk about leadership.

It is not easy to be a good leader, but there are characteristics that make someone a good leader or a bad one. What do you think makes a good leader?

Here are 10 conversation questions to get you talking about what makes a good leader!

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Conversation Questions: What Makes a Good Leader?!

1. In your opinion, what makes a good leader?

2. Why is good leadership important?

3. Are people born good leaders, or do they need to learn it?

4. Is experience important for leadership?

5. Have you ever been in a leadership position? Would you like to be?

6. Who is the best leader you know personally? What makes them a good leader?

7. Who do you think is the greatest leader in history? What makes them so special?

8. What characteristics are typical of bad leaders?

9. If a good leader makes mistakes, does it make them a bad leader?

10. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”

John C. Maxwell

What do you think of this quote?

Vocabulary List:

• Leader
  • a person in control of a group, country, or situation
• Leadership
  • the set of characteristics that make a good leader, or the position or fact of being the leader
• Experience
  • knowledge or skill that you get from doing, seeing, or feeling things, or the process of getting this
• History
  • (the study of or a record of) past events considered together, especially events of a particular period, country, or subject
• Special
  • not ordinary or usual
• Typical
  • showing all the characteristics that you would usually expect from a particular group of things
• Mistake
  • an action, decision, or judgment that produces an unwanted or unintentional result

Model Answers:

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