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MARINE CORPS BASE HAWAII - People throughout the world recognize the Marine Corps for the leadership qualities its members possess. A civilian program discovered an opportunity to practice some team building and leadership skills aboard Marine Corps Base Hawaii.
The Asian Pacific Leadership Program traveled to MCB Hawaii to rope down the rappel tower and work together as a team to complete tasks to gain knowledge for their “leadership tool box,” Dec. 11, 2012.
The Asian Pacific Leadership Program creates a professional networking group in the Pacific. Professional students from 18 countries with diverse backgrounds such as monks, engineers, diplomats, lawyers and doctors, come to pursue higher education while expanding leadership capabilities and answering the following three questions after completing the program.
What’s going on in the world, not just today but in the future?
What kind of leadership will solve what’s going on in the world?
Where do each of them fit into solving the problems that are occurring in the world now or in the future?
“Some students involved with the program are from New Zealand, China, United States, Myanmar and Thailand,” said Scott Macleod, the director of the Asian Pacific Leadership Program, from British Columbia, Canada.
“They need to find the strengths and benefits of each person on the team to function at the highest productivity level.”
Problems discussed include disaster response and navigation change throughout the world. Leaders are expected to know what to do, when they face unknown problems. These ideologies are the main learning points behind most of the lessons in the program.
The program doesn’t have set courses but, each week students discuss new issues and perform field studies. Classmates get paired with other peers from different countries. The pairs traveled through rural areas of China, Australia and the east coast of the United States learning from one another and over coming language and cultural barriers, forcing the students to learn from each other’s weaknesses and strengths.
Members of the program leaped off the rappel tower and completed obstacle courses to build team skills. It was another way the students learned how to use each other’s strengths for the benefit of the whole group.
“The group does a lot of study and academic work,” said Maj. Sean Barnes with 4th Force Reconnaissance, 2nd and 3rd platoon, Fox Company, and Anti-terrorism Battalion. “Today gave them an opportunity to put everything they’ve been studying into practice, and put them in an unfamiliar physical domain they aren’t use to.”
Many members liked the opportunity to join up with Marines and get a taste of how Marines work together in a stressful environment.
“The fact that we were doing physical activities, is great because we haven’t done anything like this throughout the whole course,” said Rangimarie Mules, a member of the Asian Pacific Leadership Program from New Zealand. “We had to figure out what to do on the spot, work together and put into practice what we have been learning with a full body and full mind exercise.”
Marines were more than happy to help the students further their education and show them a little about how Marines train.
“A key point of this event is to have members of the Asian Pacific Leadership Program leave with a positive experience, so when they go back to their countries and jobs, they will tell friends and family the positive experience they had with Marines,” Barnes said.
| Date Taken: | 12.11.2012 |
| Date Posted: | 12.18.2012 16:44 |
| Story ID: | 99510 |
| Location: | MARINE CORPS BASE HAWAII, HI, US |
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