May 22, 2013

Student Leadership

14 Elements for a great club meeting

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Dave Kelly - 14 Elements for a great club meeting

If no one enjoys coming to your meetings, your campus club or organization is going to be a big flop. Your meetings are the key event that gets and keeps your core members involved. Want to keep everyone from getting bored and get a lot accomplished at the same time? We previously talked about 3 ways to pep up your campus club meetings but if you follow these guidelines (that includes those 3 ideas) for structuring your meetings you should see marked improvement in involvement, enthusiasm and most importantly retention. Make the meeting fun and interesting with lots of participation. A greeter welcomes attendees to the … [Read more...]

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Progression – A Sure-Fire Icebreaker

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This is another icebreaker in the “Sure-fire Icebreaker” series. Below is a full script of an amazing icebreaker. I created such an extensive description because I've found that it can be difficult to do a great icebreaker from a three-sentence description. Being a professional speaker and student leader trainer, I’m on college campuses often doing leadership retreats and orientations. Over the past decade, working with tens of thousands of students, I've learned the hard way what works and what doesn't. Most icebreakers flop because the students don’t fully understand the directions or they feel corny or awkward doing it. It ends up … [Read more...]

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10 Leadership Lessons for a Connected Life

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Tawan Perry - Leadership Lessons - Connect-5

In many ways, your college journey is only the first of many step that can lead you to a long and prosperous life. Check these 10 real-world lessons for leadership and for life. They are intended to get you focused on your real goals and deal with the rapid-fire changes that college is throwing at you. Stop drowning in the details for a minute, breathe, settle down and take a minute to connect, or reconnect with some things that will keep your feet on the ground. Lesson 1: Lead an inspired life.Did you hear that? Let me repeat it. "Lead an Inspired Life!" Whatever your calling, find it and embrace it with passion. Life can be pretty … [Read more...]

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A way to provide leadership training for all campus organizations

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Dave Kelly - Leadership training for all campus organizations

At the start of the academic year or the semester many colleges and universities conduct leadership programs and retreats for student government officers, members of the campus programming board, emerging leaders programs, and residence life. Many of these programs include a variety of topics including servant leadership and developing effective communication between team members. Usually, there is a team building element to these events where students get to know each other better and make connections intended to pave the way for future success. There's another large pool of student leaders on your campus who sometimes get overlooked and … [Read more...]

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Dave Kelly on building a Servant Leadership Resume

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Dave Kelly - They - College Speaker

I travel the country presenting my two core programs for college students: Campus Organization Leadership Training™ and Building Leaders Through Service® and they both resonate with the same overarching theme - SERVANT LEADERSHIP. The bottom line is that I believe in serving and that by serving others - especially those we intend to lead - we become better leaders. COLLEGE SPEAKER SPOTLIGHT But, I'm not some Johnny-come-lately who attended a seminar on speaking at colleges and sees an opportunity. By always being willing to roll up my sleeves in service to others I've built a SERVANT LEADERSHIP RESUME that I'm quite proud of. … [Read more...]

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Turn your campus chapter into a learning organization

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Turn your campus chapter into a learning organization

As a leader in your chapter or your campus community you are constantly looking for ways to improve your organization. You can focus on increasing community service and philanthropy, providing more leadership workshops, or focus on the academics of your organization. All of these are commendable ways to improve your organization, but what if you could do something that caused all of these things to happen as a result? Well, you can. It’s pretty simple; just turn your chapter into a learning organization. But what exactly is a learning organization? It is an organization that not only infuses learning into everything that they do, but … [Read more...]

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3 things to do if your club officers are fighting

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3 things to do if your club officers are fighting

My wife has six cats. Yes, they all belong to her - not me. That does not mean, however, that I do not fulfill my role as a “kitty daddy” and sometimes mediate disputes between them. Cat fights usually happen when one cat looks at another and the second cat does not want to be looked at. This leads to loud shrieking and paw-batting at one another. How do I deal with this? Two loud claps of my hands and then I shout “HEY!” The combatants then run off in different directions. That probably won't work if it's two of your club officers. If it did it'd be great. Two of our officers get into an argument before, during, or after a meeting … [Read more...]

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3 Ways to pep up your campus club meetings

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Dave Kelly - Seminole State College Leadership Program 01

Two things most of us will avoid like the plague... The droning of a monotone voice from the front of the room and the meeting leader that sits in the middle of the floor and asks, "So what do you guys want to talk about tonight?" As part of running better campus clubs and organizations let's make sure our meetings are fun and interesting or just put us all out of our misery and stop having them! Here are a couple of my time-tested ideas to give things a kick in the pants. 1) Start on time. End on time. People's time is important. Drop the, "I'm going to wait a few minutes until more people arrive." Start NOW! Don't punish the people … [Read more...]

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Translating student retention numbers to the bottom line

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Think your strategic enrollment efforts and intentional retention efforts don’t matter? Guess again. Your impact might be bigger than you think. If your student retention rates on your campus increase by just one percent the impact can be significant to the university’s bottom line. Let’s do some quick math based on a real-life example of a 1.6 percent increase in student retention at Maryville University in St. Louis, MO. Thanks to Dr. Beth Triplett & Dr. Jennifer McCluskey for supplying the numbers. … [Read more...]

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Failure is not an option, until it’s your only option

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Chris Collins - movement

I was born and raised on the South Side of Chicago, IL and never heard of gumbo until I moved to Texas. One year my mom decides to have a gumbo cook-off for Christmas and I think to myself, “Self, it’s just a bunch of meat in some gravy, how hard can it be?” After10 tries at making my own roux (and failing) and ruining 4 bottles of store bought roux, I conceded....making gumbo was more than just putting meat in gravy. I had to call in the pros for reinforcement, so I called one of my college friends. Her people were from the birthplace of gumbo, Louisiana, and her Aunt walked me through the process step by step. I had failed … [Read more...]

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