Students usually begin their engineering education in college or university during the late adolescence (17–20 years). In this dynamic period of lifespan, the need, importance, dimensions and impact of leadership skills in the overall development of a person through education is deconstructed in this paper. The researcher presents the outcome of an experimental study on holistic education programme and its impact on the leadership skills of engineering undergraduate students. The research design of this study was single group pre-test, post-test and delayed post-test experimental design. The sample consisted of students pursuing first year engineering programme from a University in India. The researcher developed and standardised a training programme with the support of the relevant literature and the subject experts. Statistically, significant impact was observed on the leadership skills of the students in all the dimensions after the intervention programme.
Holistic Education, Impact, Leadership Skills, Leadership Skills Inventory
