CREATIVE LEADERSHIP OF PSYCHOLOGY STUDENTS AT SAHID UNIVERSITY SURAKARTA

Abstrak

Creative Leadership is a form of leadership that is based on innovation or renewal in creating breakthroughs and ideas so that an activity can be absorbed and carried out by the team. The activity was carried out by psychology students at Sahid University, Surakarta, who were taking a training design course. In practice in the field, they must be a leader or facilitator in a game aimed at children aged 5-10 years. Students must have creativity in leading the game, because it is not easy to provide understanding to children at that age. The novelty in this research is the concept given by students when presenting a game, which previously we still used conventional methods and now what students do is a unique game to support cognitive, affective and psychomotor skills in children. The method in this research was to use interviews and observations with a total of 6 informants, namely 4th semester psychology students. The results of this research were that an innovation was found in teaching children aged 5-10 years which was carried out by students, namely by providing a game. which has goals such as training concentration, self-confidence, cooperation and motivation. Students creative leadership in leading children when games is very useful for children in training their thinking, feeling and psychomotor skills so that the innovation provided students is able to make guiding children enjoy the game instructions given by the students.