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Leadership Workshops

Leadership is something that can be learned, by anyone!  To help students learn important skills and approaches to leadership, as well as define and refine their own leadership style, we offer a wide range of workshops for individuals and leadership teams.  Individuals can sign up for pre-scheduled workshops offered in the Leadership Lounge; individual participation is a great way for leaders to learn more about themselves.   Leadership teams can also schedule workshops on request to help them learn more about each other and how to most effectively work as a team. 

Available Workshops

Learn about the different workshops offered by Student Leadership Development.  For some of these workshops there are team benefits in addition to individual leader development benefits.  If there is a topic or a workshop that is not included on this list, reach out to [[leadership, Student Leadership Development]] and we can discuss options.  

Descriptions and potential benefits of different leadership workshops

Strengths Based Leadership

Description: Using CliftonStrenths assessment, people can identify, understand and maximize their strengths

Leader Benefits: Learn about yourself and how to articulate your own personal strengths and how you use them in your leadership and involvement.

Team Benefits (at least 4 team members must participate): Teams can better understand their strengths as a team and how they can best leverage the strengths of individuals to advance the shared goals of the team

DiSC

Description: DiSC measures your behavior, tendencies, and preferences in various situations.

Leader Benefits: Understanding one's own behaviors and how those behaviors are viewed by others helps leaders to be more self-aware.

Team Benefits (at least 4 team members must participate): Teams participating in a DiSC workshop will gain a deeper understanding of how to effectively work and communicate with each other.

Conflict Styles

Description: Conflict in organizations is inevitable.  By better understanding different approaches to conflict, leaders can better lead groups and organizations. 

Leader Benefits: This workshop will help individuals better understand the various approaches to conflict, which approaches they utilize more frequently, and how to use each approach appropriately.

Team Benefits (at least 4 team members must participate): We all approach conflict differently, and if we can all understand where the other people on our team are coming from, conflict is more likely to be navigated in a constructive manner. This can also equip all members of the team with the various approaches to conflict. 

Emotionally Intelligent Leadership

Description: Leadership can’t be practiced in isolation, so it’s vital that leaders have intelligence about their emotions and how they interact with other people.

Leader Benefits: The Emotionally intelligent Leadership for Students Inventory gives leaders an opportunity to learn more about themselves and how they lead others through the lens of Emotional Intelligence.

Exemplary Practices of Leadership

Description:  Everyone can practice leadership!  Utilizing the Student Leadership Challenge and the Leadership Practices Inventory, learn about the Five Exemplary Practices of Leadership.

Leader Benefits: Individuals can learn more about the practices they tend to gravitate towards utilizing as a leader.