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Leadership educators work to engage and teach their students in new and innovative ways. The film Glory Road was shown in an agricultural leadership class to reiterate a lesson taught on Tuckman and Jensen’s (1977) Stages of Group Development. Students wrote a paper to communicate their ability to identify and evaluate the stages of group development illustrated in the movie.

Leadership educators are encouraged to identify and apply new ways to teach leadership. This paper provides the qualitative results of post-secondary students’ reflections of learning leadership concepts after watching several episodes of the television show, The Office. Students used reflective journaling to record their reactions and evaluation of the episodes. Analysis of the journals indicated that students were able to connect the leadership scenarios shown in the episodes to those they may experience in their real life.