The Student Leadership Certificate Series is a virtual leadership cohort experience, designed to provide students with the opportunities to:
- Connect with other students around various topics of leadership in a cohort experience
- Develop a variety of different leadership skills and strengthen one's own personal leadership skills
- Identify ways you can help make a positive change in our communities
- Develop an understanding of one's personal leadership values are and how they influence one's leadership style
- Engage in a variety of leadership sessions that focus on leadership styles, emotional intelligence, and social change
(Spring 2024) Track #2: Leadership and Emotional Intelligence
- Leadership Values
- Tuesday, February 13th from 5:30pm-6:30pm via Zoom
- RSVP via Mason 360: https://cglink.me/2d7/r2261361
- Zoom link: https://gmu.zoom.us/j/91632533766
- Leadership Across Difference: Tips from A-Z
- Tuesday, March 19th from 5:30pm-6:30pm via Zoom
- RSVP via Mason 360: https://cglink.me/2d7/r2261362
- Zoom link: https://gmu.zoom.us/j/91632533766
- Bringing Your Purpose to Life: Goal Setting
- Tuesday, April 16th from 5:30pm-6:30pm via Zoom
- RSVP via Mason 360: https://cglink.me/2d7/r2261363
- Zoom link: https://gmu.zoom.us/j/91632533766
Spring 2024: Leadership and Emotional Intelligence
Allows for students to identify their personal ethical values, the ethical values of their teammates, and how they connect to their leadership style and presence.
Coming soon...
What is your purpose? What is most important to you, your group, and society? Attend this interactive workshop to clarify your purpose, develop a vision, and then design SMART goals (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant and Time Based) that can help you reach your vision.
Discover Your Leadership Styles: Fall 2024
This session will explore the complex topic of leadership. Who do you consider a leader? Does the term “leader” apply only to those in positions of power, or others as well? What characteristics are people looking for in their leaders? Where do you stand on some leadership topics: Are there “born leaders”? Do you need charisma to be a good leader? We will explore how leadership relates to you and your life today.
- Leadership 101
- RSVP via Mason 360: https://cglink.me/2d7/r2128476
- Tuesday, September 26th from 5:30pm-6:30pm via Zoom (https://gmu.zoom.us/j/92541398410)
Provides a model for understanding yourself based on your personality temperament. Students will have a chance to engage and interact with one another and learn more about the following: (1) Enhancing relationships – bringing out the best in us, (2) Promoting responsibilities – respecting and building upon our strengths, (3) Fostering understanding – learning to view the world through other lenses, and (4) Gaining insights into different motivations, actions and communication approaches
- True Colors
- RSVP via Mason 360: https://cglink.me/2d7/r2128481
- Tuesday, October 24th from 5:30pm-6:30pm via Zoom https://gmu.zoom.us/j/92541398410
Explore the relationship between leadership and kindness through the lens of Disney. This workshop will allow you to analyze how kind leadership can emerge within your own life, and provide you with some of the tools necessary to enact these behaviors within your own life.
- Leadership and Kindness
- RSVP via Mason 360: https://cglink.me/2d7/r2128480
- Tuesday, November 28th from 5:30pm-6:30pm via Zoom https://gmu.zoom.us/j/92541398410
How does it work?
The Student Leadership Certificate Series has been divided into 2 different tracks. The following tracks are:
- (Spring 2024) Track #2: Leadership and Emotional Intelligence
- Leadership Values
- Tuesday, February 13th from 5:30pm-6:30pm via Zoom
- Leadership Across Difference: Tips from A-Z
- Tuesday, March 19th from 5:30pm-6:30pm via Zoom
- Bringing Your Purpose to Life: Goal Setting
- Tuesday, April 16th from 5:30pm-6:30pm via Zoom
- Leadership Values
- (Fall 2024) Track #1: Discover Your Leadership Styles
- Leadership 101
- Info will be available in Summer 2024
- True Colors
- Info will be available in Summer 2024
- Leadership and Kindness
- Info will be available in Summer 2024
- Leadership 101
Do I have to complete both tracks?
Each track is a separate cohort experience. Students can select 1 or more tracks to participate in. It is recommended that you complete them in order, but it is not required. In order to receive credit for completing a specific track, students must attend at least 2 sessions within the track.
Why should I participate in the Student Leadership Certificate Series?
Students who participate in the certificates series will have an opportunity to not only develop a variety of different leadership skills and strengthen one's own personal leadership skills, but they will also be able to connect and engage with other students around various topics of leadership in a cohort experience.
What do I get once I complete each track?
Students will receive the following items after completing each track.
- Track #1: digital badge, certificate, and LEAD swag item
- Track #2: digital badge, certificate, and LEAD swag item
Questions, contact Lisa Snyder, Associate Director for Leadership, Education, and Development at lsnyder2@gmu.edu.