FEPS Training Manuals – Because the Leadership Matters

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The Training Manuals are part of the toolbox of the FEPS European Progressive Training Lab. This training was designed in the framework of the Council of the Young European Socialists in Massy (Paris) 2025, where the methodology was successfully applied.

This training aims to discuss the role of the political leaders with young leaders aspiring to serve further, implement political projects and accomplish political missions.

The training:

• Explores leadership theories
• Explains the difference between leadership and management
• Identifies the values and characteristics that the participants consider defining for modern leadership
• Dives into the meaning of empowering leadership
• Looks at ways leaders can examine themselves, as well as seek feedback
• Help design the actions that can make politics more inclusive (and by extension help bridge the gap between politics and the European citizens)
• Helps making categories such as “political mandate”, “legitimacy”, “political responsibility” tangible

This training is particularly timely within the context of European Union politics, where there is a growing democratic deficit, and claims are made that the distance between elites and citizens prompts young people, especially, to turn their back on democratic politics. As a result of disenchantment, they often choose to support extremist, radical, anti-democratic and anti-European forces.