Development and Implementation of Parliamentary Skills Enhancement Program for Youth Leaders

The participants were thirty (30) youth leader’s residents from eight (8) municipalities of Laguna. The purpose of the study is to provide parliamentary skills for the youth leaders to practice and prepare themselves for the parliamentary procedure, created a program of parliamentary procedure to the youth leaders with having a parliamentary procedure demonstration. Used a quantitative method through descriptive-evaluative design. The researcher used technique random-selected sampling to collect the college participants and used the mean, standard deviation and paired-t-test for the statistical tools of the study. Pre-test scores of the participants was “Moderate†means that some of the participants do not have knowledge when it comes to parliamentary procedure, while the post-test scores of the participants was “High†means that majority of the participants improved their knowledge when it comes to parliamentary procedure after they participate the parliamentary skills enhancement training/seminar program. Extent of parliamentary skills in terms of communication, listener and leadership was very high extent manifest by the participants, while the character traits in term of respect was very high extent and self-confidence was high extent. After the enhancement program, the participants clearly demonstrate the parliamentary procedure in front of the evaluators. Both the satisfaction of the participants on the parliamentary skills enhancement program and participants’ appreciation was very high extent manifest by the youth leaders. It was revealed in the findings that there is a significant difference between the pre-test and post-test score of the youth leaders.