Use Your Influence To Teach Something Very Real About Leadership

Old Way vs. New Way
The Old Way of motivating and inspiring children, youth, and teens was to bring in speakers and role models to talk about their success, their journey, and some key things that the students can do to learn leadership, courage, and integrity. The truth is, students don't get excited about it like they used to. Fear of looking bad in front of their peers, they'd rather make jokes and do nothing than listen with their heart and learn something.

The New Way is to make these students become the ACTION hero of their own journey. Give them challenges to take action in their communities and take real action on their goals and achievements. They will be building confidence and leadership skills through creating their own successful stories and recording it along the way.

Motivation
Your decision to help your school (or class, organization, group...) build a project portfolio could be one of the most important decisions you will ever make for them. Help motivate them to take action in your community and watch them transform into leaders that have a glowing advantage in life. 

Take An Active Role
Don't expect the members of your group to just go out and take action, you may need to help them along their journey. No matter what age group your working with (5 or 55), you'll need to take an ACTIVE ROLE in their projects.

The most important part is to 'guide' them and mentor them but not to do it for them. You should be there to help keep them accountable and be sure to let them know how important their community projects are to their future. You can do this by participating in your own PBLT projects as an adult or by simply being an "assistant" in your group's projects.

The Most Precious Skill On Earth
Of all of the lessons that your team will learn while participating in the NLT, there is no lesson that will take them further in life than the art of leadership. There is no better method for teaching leadership than by helping the members of your school get involved in projects in your community that will place them in a leadership role. The experiences that they will learn as they build their Project Portfolios will be forged into their memories forever. They will be able to draw from those experiences later in life when they have another opportunity to lead a future team to success.

You Can't Do It For Them
As hard as it is sometimes, you won't be able to teach them leadership. They can only learn leadership through taking action and earning those experiences. Too often we try and "Teach Leadership" when instead we should be helping them learn "How To Lead".

Setting Your Team Up For A
Lifetime Of Success
Whatever path the students of your school choose later in life, Leadership traits and skills will play a key role in their success. The more experience they can gain early on, the better off they will be. You have an opportunity to be the one that teaches them the most precious skill on earth: LEADERSHIP.

Investing In Their Future
Through working with your local martial arts school, your FEE for using this program is, well, NOTHING. As a public school, you will have FREE access to all the NLT has to offer when you work closely with your local martial arts academy. You will be able to manage your students and begin to build a professional Project Portfolio for your school. This TEAM Project Portfolio will stay with your school through the years and will help you track/record the memories and projects that your group members have accomplished with your guidance. This is a great credibility tool when you can show others the results (positive projects in your community) from being a student at your school.

Become a Role Model
You can also use the NLT to simply track your projects and lead by example, becoming a role model for a future generation of leaders. The kids and youth of the NLT and of your community are looking for others to set the example for them to follow. Naturally they look to adults for guidance and leadership. This is your opportunity to become a hero in the eyes of a child. When a child looks to you for leadership and support, will your actions help shape their young minds in a positive way or a negative direction? When you complete community action projects and allow them to become a part of it, you will help teach them real leadership and respect along the way, effectively helping them gravitate towards becoming a future leader themselves.

Capturing the Moment
Your opportunities for greatness are all around you. Participating in PBLT is one of those vehicles that can help shape your future. By taking action, recording the results, and sharing your passion with others, you will effectively be taking a leadership role in your community. This could be a springboard for future opportunities that you may have overlooked in the past. Capture the moment now by taking action and building a PBLT Project Portfolio today so you can use it when the opportunity presents itself.

Start Small and Grow
Your initial projects can be something small. Your projects don't have to be huge, every little bit counts! Begin to build your Project Portfolio with small projects, build success, and then grow your projects as your ability to lead grows.

Large Scale Projects
Once you've successfully completed a handful of smaller projects, you can start tackling a larger project that includes more people and will help a bigger cause. As college students, your ability to lead and inspire others is at an all time high. Turn that energy into ACTION in your community and watch your Leadership Skills develop through inspiring others to WANT to help you in your projects.

Community Service and Activism
You can help your team understand the importance of helping others through acts of kindness, community projects, and service to others. The best way to teach these lessons is through your own positive action and leading by example. As a team, you can start a project to help others around you, make someone else's day by doing something selfless and kind, or start a project that can make a huge difference in your community and allow the members of your group to take an active role in it. The possibilities are endless and the bottom line is, we are always teaching because children are always watching and learning. Don't miss these moments that occur everyday to educate these children on the important things in life. In truth, they won't miss those moments to learn so be sure that in those moments of learning, they are absorbing positive, healthy, beneficial lessons and traits that will take them exceedingly far in life.

Become A Member &
Start Building Your
Project Portfolio

Contact your local martial arts school and get more information about the
service that they can provide your school through the use of the NLT.
Again, they do not charge for this program, it is FREE.
These instructors volunteer their time to teach your students about real Leadership.