CSL Program

Take your leadership development
a step further...
Become a Certified Student Leader

Registration available on site for $149

The Certified Student Leader® Program has been an optional part of the National Center for Student Leadership conference since 1994.

Over 5,000 student leaders have become Certified Student Leaders and many are now established leaders in their professional life. You could be next!

Check out photos of the Fall 2012 Certified Student Leaders!

About the Program

The Certified Student Leader® (CSL) Program at the National Center for Student Leadership Conference strengthens your student leadership foundation by developing your skills in three areas:

  1. Self
  2. Group
  3. Campus Leadership

The program facilitates deeper processing of the conference material and helps you create an action plan based on your learning at the conference.

You’ll take away resources, plans, ideas, and strategies that you can immediately put into practice to move your group and campus ahead.

As a participant, you will complete a series of interactive activities with students from other campuses to help you apply the conference material to yourself, your student group, and your campus community.

You’ll dig deeper and reach broader using the Certified Student Leader® Program as a bridge to network and collaborate with students from other schools in a deeper way, forging powerful cross-campus partnerships.


Schedule

The Certified Student Leader® Program takes place within the conference schedule with over four hours of experiences outside the regular conference activities.  It is required that you attend all four sessions.

Day 1: Get ready to experience facilitated networking activities designed to encourage fast connections with participants from other schools. You will experience the group development process by rapidly forming a group with other students. You'll work with this group throughout the conference, completing activities and sharing in collaborative leadership. You will use the group development skills learned in this workshop when you get back to your campus.

Day 2: We'll work together to identify what you are learning from the conference activities, what new ideas have been sparked, and how you can apply these ideas to yourself, your student group, and your campus community. We'll also engage in a series of interactive activities that will help you take your National Center for Student Leadership experience back to your campus and student group.

Day 3: Bring your personal learning from the conference back to your group at the Certified Student Leader retreat. With the help of program facilitators and a detailed workbook guide, you'll complete interactive activities and create a strategic plan for your own project, event, or new idea that you want to launch on your campus. After successfully completing your strategic plan, you will earn the Certified Student Leader® designation and be honored at the awards ceremony on the final day.

Day 4: Join us as we recognize and celebrate with the newest group of Certified Student Leaders at the awards presentation. Successful candidates of the Certified Student Leader® program will leave the conference prepared to be autonomous, active leaders in their campus communities. We wish them well as they return to their campus communities ready to make a difference.

Staff

The Certified Student Leader® Program at the conference is facilitated by Mary Shively, Director of Leadership at Emporia State University, along with Taylor Kriley, Assistant Director for the Center for Student Involvement at Emporia State University.

Learning Outcomes

Self Leadership

  1. Manage time, activity, and achieve greater balance, autonomy, and self motivation.
  2. Engage your leadership skills throughout life by responding to difference, change, and making meaningful connections.
  3. Develop productive relationships through networking and building partnerships with a diversity of individuals and groups.

Group Leadership

  1. Create a strategic vision, goals, and action plans for your student group.
  2. Develop your group through collaboratively sharing leadership by recruiting, retaining, engaging, motivating, and delegating.
  3. Get others involved at deeper levels through better communication, more confident public speaking, and creative group facilitation.

Campus Leadership

  1. Innovate on campus through sharing best practices, implementing new ideas, and using a process to move project creation into action.
  2. Use project management tools to recognize resources that can aid in key activities such as communicating to the campus community.
  3. Pass the leadership and development on to others through formally sharing your learning with their campus and others students.

Add the Certified Student Leader® Program to your
National Center for Student Leadership conference registration for $149 on site

 
 

 

 


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