Personal Intentional Change: The Student Leadership Tool

There is a real need to provide student life and development programmes that address the current challenges of student leadership development for young student leaders. South Africa has witnessed student protests and or marches that are characterised by violence and the destruction of university, private and public property. This also includes the disruption of social order, thus endangering the lives of the public. The nature of violence and the destruction of property is an old phenomenon in the higher education terrain in South Africa. This paper aims to start the dialogue and suggest introducing programmes that deal with the characters, attitudes, ethos, and perceptions of the student leaders as part of self-leadership and development. The programmes must be part of the personal, intentional change process of intentional change. Self-leadership is required for individual student leaders at their levels of life, from professional student leadership positions to personal and social spaces. Leadership training programmes that deal with character development programmes will help change the trajectory of our present leadership. There is a need to move away from event management as part of the centre of student leadership programmes. Methodology/Approaches The content or document analysis will be used in this article, analysing the literature, concepts, and implications of the literature on the proposals. The following approaches will be used to set up the article's structure towards the findings and or proposals. Findings Intentional personal change can happen in various stages of a student leadership skills development programme/s at an individual level. Research Limitations There is minimal literature dedicated to student leadership programmes and no literature dedicated to them. This means minimal literature on using intentional change theories as part of student leadership initiatives. Research Applications The intentional change model can be used at universities as part of the student life and development model for student leadership programme/s.