The Leadership Role

As group leader, your job begins long before the scheduled departure date. The responsibilities of leadership may fall to you in a variety of ways:

As store owner or manager, you may be the one who initially schedules the trip and makes the necessary financial arrangements with the travel wholesaler or destination.
As a staff instructor, you may be assigned a trip as part of your duties as a store employee. This is often seen as one of the fringe benefits of employment. It is -— however, do not make the mistake of thinking of it as a free vacation. Done correctly, it is anything but.

Regardless of how you become a group leader, your responsibilities will be similar.