Youth development:
A process through which young are empowered to reach their full potential as individuals and deal with the challenges effectively through adolescence and early adulthood. Young develop social, ethical, emotional, physical and cognitive competencies. This happens through various activities undertaken and their experiences.
Youth leadership: Youth leadership is a process of learning and development where the young mass becomes complete in individual sense by achieving efficiency and qualification over their thought-process, behavior, societal approach, self-integrity; therefore, growing up responsibly.
1. Ability to analyze: strengths/weaknesses, setting up goals, developing confidences, self-respect and motivation and ability to carry activities supporting himself and the society
2. Gradually ability to influence, guide and lead others develops where one motivates others to follow and being looked up as a role model.
Youth needs to achieve their purpose of enhancing themselves individually, socially, morally, politically and financially to progress towards self-actualization thus, creating a ripple of modification and leading it on admiringly. These includes the following aspects:
- Cognitive
- Social
- Civic
- Cultural
- Spiritual
- Vocational
- Physical
- Mental
- Personal
- Moral
- Intellectual
Impacts of youth leadership:
- Helps an individual to come in terms and accept the challenges of adolescent, adult-hood.
- Maturing as an individual in the fields of social, ethical, emotional, physical, cognitive senses.
- Supporting the youth in developing the ability to analyze their strengths and weaknesses, confidence, ability, civil senses
- Develops the ability to guide and lead others on a course of direction and action.
- Influence the behaviors of others in a positive manner.
- Serve as a role-model and as an empowered example.
- Helps one to grow as a constructive being who is socially connected and less likely to get into causalities or risky indulgence.
- Self-defense and self-actualization
- Provide support to self, family and others in need.
- Involved individual who can make an impact among other adolescents.
- Transparent about their views in life and a positive outlook towards others helping them in building confidence and paving their path to success.
- Communication skills enhances.
- A resourceful planned human being who can reshape others too in the similar manner.
- Creating a mass effect of positive output socially, individually, financially, politically.
