REQUIRED WORKSHOPS:  Two Hours

Communication Skills: In this session you will identify strengths and weaknesses of your personal communication style.  This session will include group participation exercises for various communication modules as well as show you how to adapt your style to various audience levels.  This workshop will also examine communication barriers and how you can effectively navigate through them to improve communication lines within your group or organization.

Diverse Community:
Successful managers and leaders understand and educate themselves on the changing demographics within the community, the nation and the world.  This session will explore the impact that a diverse community may have in your personal interactions with others.  You will also be challenged to re-examine your personal values and beliefs, and discover stereotypes and biases that you may hold.  It will help students develop an openness and appreciation of difference, and underscore the richness that diversity can add to a group or organization.

Leadership Styles:
Are you aware that you have your own leadership style?  This workshop will explore various leadership styles and discuss how to assess the type of leadership, which is most appropriate for a given situation.  Also, strategies on how to improve your leadership skills will be provided.

Public Speaking:
Learn how to be a confident and competent public speaker through self-awareness and controlling your anxieties of speaking in front of a group.  This workshop will explore why public speaking has historically been a frightening experience for a lot of people. Learn how to effectively prepare yourself before a public speaking situation.  This session will offer you a chance to practice public speaking in front of a group and receive insightful feedback from your peers.

Marketing Your Leadership Abilities:
This session will discuss how you can market yourself by effectively networking, interviewing and preparing a proper resume.  This workshop is geared to enhancing your skills in those three areas in order to attain a desired position, award or placement.  Understand what goes on behind the scenes, and learn tricks and concepts that may help you gain an edge over the competition.

ELECTIVE WORKSHOPS:  One Hour (four required for certification)

Time Management:
Being able to juggle a busy schedule is a fundamental skill of successful leaders.  This workshop will show you how to get organized so you can utilize your time more efficiently.  This workshop will also help students who see time budgeting as a valuable leadership skill rather than an absolute way of life.  This workshop will also help you identify your priorities and how you can maximize your time to accommodate your primary goals.

Creating Networks:
Developing networks and creating alliances with others is an important skill for leaders both on campus and in the community.  This workshop will explore approaches to building personal and work-related relationships as well as discuss ways to break down many of the perceived barriers between campus organizations or community organizations.  It will also help students to see the importance of reaching out to others as resources.

Vision and Goal Setting:
It is essential for an effective leader to foresee their personal needs or the needs of the group and establish the necessary goals.  This workshop will explore methods of successful goal setting for you or any organization.  You will also explore how to evaluate your goals, and explain organizational vision and how to utilize it.

Financial Planning:
This workshop will cover the concept of “wants” and “needs” and how those concepts can impact how your money is spent.  This workshop will also explore the role of budgeting in effective management, essential elements of the budgeting process, and the advantage and limitations of budgeting.  Ideas on how to spend money wisely from a college student’s budget will also be discussed.

Ethical Decision-Making:
This workshop will discuss strategies to practicing values-driven leadership through identifying the difference between what a person “wants to” do and “should” do.  Through case studies or scenarios, discussion and debate, techniques for handling very difficult and ambiguous situations will be explored.  Models that can assist the decision-maker in choosing between “right and wrong” will be discussed. 

Teamwork and Collaboration:
Understand why leadership is a process that involves a group of people working together to achieve a common goal.  This workshop will discuss the group process and how it evolves over time.  This session will discuss how individual differences between group members can be a strength instead of a weakness.  Techniques and principles of proper and effective collaboration will also be presented.