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What makes our program unlike any other?
For more than 25 years, higher education experienced professionals have facilitated leadership development for students, faculty and staff, using Emotional Intelligence (EQ) principles of: 1) Self-Awareness, 2) Self-Management, 3) Interacting with Others, and 4) Influencing Others. Our program uses a "hands-on" experiential approach providing participants with interactive experiences focused on:
Our experiential approach to learning provides an emotionally-charged element which reinforces skill acquisition for lifelong learning. Testimonials
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Leadership Scenarios Activity
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This 31-page document is a practical "hands-on"
experience which simulates the alternate choices that individuals
often have in a variety of situations that they face as student
leaders. It begins with a statement of a situation that you,
as a new student leader, are facing. Your course of action
may differ from others who will be participating in this same
exercise.
There is no one path to follow, just as there is no one path
in real life. But which path you take will depend on your
unique repertoire of experience, knowledge and skills. There
will be multiple opportunities to consider issues and events
which will impact your decisions and actions during the exercise.
The choices you make, as a result of these decisions and actions,
will either expand or limit your ability to succeed in addressing
the situation at hand.
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Our Approach:
A Model for Personal Awareness and Skills Acquisition Training
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The CHALLENGE: College and University student
leadership positions require a reservoir of talented and skilled
students to ensure ongoing success. Typically, new students
volunteer for and become active members of a student organization,
prior to assuming a leadership role. Often, this process of
developing student leadership capabilities is unstructured
and the direct result of "on-the-job" experience with little
opportunity for self assessment of leadership effectiveness.
The OPPORTUNITY: To utilize external student
leadership training and development resources which:
- build the organizational training infrastructure,
- expand an individual's conceptual framework
- enhance personal understanding and
- skill acquisition and development.
This experiential approach to learning provides an emotionally-charged
element which reinforces skill acquisition for lifelong learning.
The SOLUTION: Using
proven methods for the development of student leadership competencies,
The Center for Organizational and Personal Excellence model
includes the following components:
SELF AWARENESS (Introspective Focus)
- Needs
"What Am I Doing Here?"
"What Do I Need to Work
On?"
- Interests:
"What do I enjoy?"
- Values:
"What is important to
me?"
- Skills:
"How well do I communicate?"
- Personal Purpose and Potential:
"What are my life goals?"
SELF MANAGEMENT (Behavioral Focus)
- Roles:
"How many do I play
and how do I balance them?"
- Priorities:
"What will I do in the
next five minutes?"
- Motivation:
"Where does it come
from?"
- Goals:
"What are they and are
they realistic?"
INTERACTING WITH OTHERS (Interpersonal Focus)
- Interpersonal Savvy/Components of Social Intelligence
- Communications Skills: The role of emotions in personal/group
decision making.
- Interacting with Impact: Personal styles and preferences.
- Human Relations/Social Skills: Understanding growth in relationships.
INFLUENCING OTHERS (Team/Group/Organizational Development)
- Demonstrating Leadership
- Vision
- Mission
- Leadership
- Communication
- Competency
- Organization
- Involvement
- Goals
- Empowerment
- Results
- Organizational Problem Identification and
Problem Solving Strategies and Interventions
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The overall student leadership development program goals are:
- Personal Introspection: To enhance each individual's understanding of self through personal introspection and opportunities to address and reflect on the questions of: What Am I Doing Here?, Who Am I?, and Where Am I Going?
- Skills Acquisition: To provide an opportunity for individuals to learn about leadership concepts and strengthen their skills and abilities through participative and experiential learning activities.
- Development of a Sense of "Team": To identify and experience the benefits of teamwork and to broaden a sense of organizational interdependence.
- Problem Solving Strategies and Interventions: To learn about and apply problem identification, problem solving and decision making strategies customized to address specific problem areas in the organization.
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Our learning process encompasses participative learning, experiential learning and active training strategies which focus on participants' need to integrate concepts presented with their own personal knowledge and experience and includes:
- Readings
- Individual and Group Exercises which reinforce concepts presented
- Participant Dialogue/Discussions/Presentations
- Role Play Scenarios
- Application of concepts to "real-time" student related issues
- Identification of organizational issues as focus during group problem solving activities.
- Report-back and processing of application experience
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The principals, Donald
C. Doran and Daniel
H. Duffy, serve on the Board of Directors of The Center
for Organizational and Personal Excellence. Each of these Organizational
Consultants is a higher education and corporate experienced
professional and organizational development specialist who has...
- the depth of knowledge obtained through higher education and corporate related professional management, training and development experience,
- an understanding of the complexities of higher education culture, and
- the ability to facilitate organizational group dynamics.
Contact Us: Student Leadership
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The Center for Organizational and Personal Excellence: A consortium
of training professionals who provide leadership, management
and administrative consulting services. We work with institutional
professionals to assist them in the development and/or strengthening
of Student Leadership Programs. For more information:
Call Daniel Duffy, Executive Director: 1-732-773-0429 or
email: daniel_duffy@collegestudentleader.com
Student Leadership Website Links
Leader-Values.com
This link is to a website that investigates the impact and relationship
of values and leadership.
StudentLeader.com
This link is to the website of the company that publishes both
Student Leader and Florida Leader Magazine.
NOTE: If you know of any worthwhile Student
Leadership related websites, please send
us an email and we'll be glad to consider their inclusion
within this page.
