1. Becoming a Leader of Character
Presented by
Nancy Hunter Denney
You want to lead and live as a person of character and integrity. So how do you live your values ... and how do you maintain your commitment to do so? Learn more about leadership skills, values, and responsibilities along with the visionary and creative thinking that is necessary to have a positive impact on your academic and personal development. Get the answers you want and need in this inspiring presentation. You'll learn:
- What it means to act with integrity
- The essential traits of high character
- Sources of motivation — and how to use them
- How to maintain your resolve to do what's right
- Personal goals for leaders with character
- How acting with integrity will benefit your organization and you.
2. Interpersonal Skills for a Cohesive Student Organization
Presented by
Kristin Skarie
Simply put, communication makes or breaks an organization. When you communicate poorly as a leader, no one is inspired to follow. And when your members communicate poorly, nothing gets done. This presentation reveals how good communication can build strong interpersonal relationships and drive an organization to great things! You'll learn:
- How to assess your own communication style — strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities for improvement
- How to use your natural tendencies to communicate most effectively
- Why knowing your organization's members as individuals is critical to building strong relationships
- How to understand and work with different communication styles
- How to build cohesion through involvement, feedback, and shared standards of excellence
- How to deal constructively with conflict
- How to work toward a group vision while respecting individuality.
3. Intentional and Inclusive Community Building
Presented by
Rev. Dr. Jamie Washington
Organizations thrive when they make the most of the diverse skills, talents, and perspectives of their members. But it takes work to accomplish this. Learn how to promote understanding, bridge differences, and help your organization grow as a learning community. You'll address issues including:
- What a learning community is
- What the norms of a successful learning community are
- The "triggers" that affect you personally, and how they impact your perceptions
- How you can apply a Multicultural Learning and Change Process to your organization
- How you can lead your organization successfully through stages of awareness, knowledge, skills, and action
- How, as a leader, you can best ensure that every voice is heard.
4. Prepare for Success: Strategic Planning
Presented by
Kimberly Novak
If your organization is going to be successful, it needs more than energetic members; it needs a way to harness that energy toward the achievement of its goals. Here, you'll learn the importance of strategic planning, and gain insight on issues including:
- How strategic planning benefits your organization, its members, and you as a leader
- How to assess your organization using a SWOT analysis
- How to develop a mission statement and a vision, and understand the difference
- How to determine your organization's principles and values, and develop objectives based on them
- How to create an action plan and allocate resources and responsibilities
- How to measure progress.
5. Effective Organizational Meetings
Presented by
Susan Leahy
Of all the time spent in organizational meetings, over half is wasted. That's a staggering misuse of time and effort, and a tremendous drain on energy and enthusiasm. Make your meetings different. This presentation will show you how to use meetings to actually get things done. You'll learn:
- Distinctions between business and informational meetings, formal and informal ones
- Why effective meetings are critical to your organization
- How to use an agenda to maintain focus
- How to assess and change the energy of a meeting
- The consequences of passive participation, and the benefits of active participation
- How to introduce parliamentary procedure and Robert's Rules of Order to your organization
- The basic types and uses of motions and amendments
- The pyramid of precedence.
6. Event Success: Planning and Publicity
Presented by
Michael DeRosa
Whether your organization relies on events for fundraising, recruiting, and informing your campus — or whether events are the whole reason it exists —concerts, performances, etc. — good planning and effective publicity are essential. In this information-packed session, you'll learn:
- The stages of successful event planning
- What to ask yourself before you initiate any project
- The nuts and bolts of the planning process, from building your team, to determining your resource needs, to developing a timeline
- How to mobilize your people
- How to plan publicity, define your target audiences, and deliver your message
- How to determine which media will yield the best and most cost-efficient results
- The good and the bad of word-of-mouth publicity
- The importance of documenting your program.
7. Transforming and Resolving Conflict
Presented by
Karin Malkowski Stende
In any organization, conflict is unavoidable ... but it's rarely unresolvable. Learn the keys to positive and productive conflict resolution in this insightful presentation. It covers:
- The essential role of good communication in conflict resolution
- Active listening — and how to do it
- Impediments to communication
- How to understand and deal with varying approaches to conflict
- Factors that can exacerbate conflict
- Keys to effective problem-solving and resolution
- How to stay focused on relationships rather than outcomes.
8. Playing the Part: Roles and Transitions
Presented by
Chuck Lloyd
One of the best things you can do for your student organization is to leave it in good hands. But transitioning from year to year is challenging, and in many organizations, poor transitions undo a lot of hard work. In this presentation, you'll learn how to help prepare your organization's next generation of leaders by:
- Identifying the best candidates for leadership roles
- Creating a sense of involvement and ownership
- Establishing transition goals
- Communicating roles and responsibilities
- Identifying contacts and sources of support, on and off campus
- Reviewing organizational structure, history and procedures
- Introducing new leaders to manuals, policies and other documentation
- Following up after the transition period.
