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Page 1: Student Leadership By: Rhys Andrews. Why a Focus on Student Leadership? Tomorrows leaders will be you We can help prepare you for leadership challenges

Student Leadership

By: Rhys Andrews

Page 2: Student Leadership By: Rhys Andrews. Why a Focus on Student Leadership? Tomorrows leaders will be you We can help prepare you for leadership challenges

Why a Focus on Student Leadership?

• Tomorrows leaders will be you

• We can help prepare you for leadership challenges

• We develop shared learning about leadership

Page 3: Student Leadership By: Rhys Andrews. Why a Focus on Student Leadership? Tomorrows leaders will be you We can help prepare you for leadership challenges

Critical Elements of Student Leadership Development

• Partnerships between staff and students

• Provide you with decision making power and responsibility for consequences

• Provide a broader context for learning and service

• Recognize your experiences, knowledge and skills

Page 4: Student Leadership By: Rhys Andrews. Why a Focus on Student Leadership? Tomorrows leaders will be you We can help prepare you for leadership challenges

A Long Definition of Leadership

By: Kouze and Pozner (1995)

10 Things to Think About• Search out challenging

opportunities• Experiment, take risks, and learn• Envision an uplifting future• Enlist others in a common vision• Foster collaboration• Strengthen people by giving power

away• Set an example; develop shared

values• Achieve small wins; consistent

progress• Recognize individual contributions• Celebrate team accomplishments

Leaders are at their best when they:

“challenge the process, inspire a shared vision, enable others to act, model the way, and encourage the heart”

Page 5: Student Leadership By: Rhys Andrews. Why a Focus on Student Leadership? Tomorrows leaders will be you We can help prepare you for leadership challenges

An Outline for Student Leadership1. Leadership from Within

2. Leadership with Others

3. Leadership in the Community

4. Leadership for the FutureLeadership through Service

Page 6: Student Leadership By: Rhys Andrews. Why a Focus on Student Leadership? Tomorrows leaders will be you We can help prepare you for leadership challenges

Leadership from Within

Develop Skills, Knowledge and Attitudes in:

• Classical and contemporary leadership

• Personal awareness• Communication skills• A personal definition of

leadership

Page 7: Student Leadership By: Rhys Andrews. Why a Focus on Student Leadership? Tomorrows leaders will be you We can help prepare you for leadership challenges

Leadership With Others

Develop knowledge, skills and attitudes in:

• Authentic leadership• Balancing “being” and

“doing”• Working successfully in

teams• Conflict resolution

Page 8: Student Leadership By: Rhys Andrews. Why a Focus on Student Leadership? Tomorrows leaders will be you We can help prepare you for leadership challenges

Leadership in the Community

Develop knowledge, skills and attitudes in:

• Community values• A personal definition of

community leadership• A community leader skill

set• Appreciative inquiry

Page 9: Student Leadership By: Rhys Andrews. Why a Focus on Student Leadership? Tomorrows leaders will be you We can help prepare you for leadership challenges

Leadership for the Future

Develop knowledge, skills and attitudes in:

• Local, regional and global issues

• Personal interests and values around issues

• Collaborating and building consensus

Page 10: Student Leadership By: Rhys Andrews. Why a Focus on Student Leadership? Tomorrows leaders will be you We can help prepare you for leadership challenges

Self Awareness

• We have perceptions• We make sense of our

perceptions• We see what we believe and

what we want to believe• We make up negative

stories more often• We attribute error to others• We project (what we see

outside of us is what is inside of us)

• We have mental models

Page 11: Student Leadership By: Rhys Andrews. Why a Focus on Student Leadership? Tomorrows leaders will be you We can help prepare you for leadership challenges

How to Defeat Perceptions and Sense Making?

4 skills to defeat these two norms of human behavior:

• Self awareness – know mental maps, etc.• Descriptiveness – know own experience and how

to describe it to others (be discerning)• Curiosity – ask questions and listen• Appreciation – be positive and appreciate others

Page 12: Student Leadership By: Rhys Andrews. Why a Focus on Student Leadership? Tomorrows leaders will be you We can help prepare you for leadership challenges

Window on the world

What does your window on the world look like?

• your assumptions• your beliefs• your attitudes• your values

Page 13: Student Leadership By: Rhys Andrews. Why a Focus on Student Leadership? Tomorrows leaders will be you We can help prepare you for leadership challenges

Ladder of Inference

Page 14: Student Leadership By: Rhys Andrews. Why a Focus on Student Leadership? Tomorrows leaders will be you We can help prepare you for leadership challenges

Open Talking and Listeningwe need to do both

• Talking openly – willing to expose to others what is inside us

• Listening openly – willing to expose ourselves to something new from others

• Doing both opens new realities

Page 15: Student Leadership By: Rhys Andrews. Why a Focus on Student Leadership? Tomorrows leaders will be you We can help prepare you for leadership challenges

Open Talking

• Tell a personal experience about leadership to a friend.

• Listen intently to the story and paraphrase.

• When somebody speaks personally, passionately, and from the heart, the conversation deepens.

• Speak up and speak in the here and now – think, feel, sense, want, and do.

Page 16: Student Leadership By: Rhys Andrews. Why a Focus on Student Leadership? Tomorrows leaders will be you We can help prepare you for leadership challenges

Open Listening

• Remember the root of not listening is knowing if I already “know” the truth, why do I need to listen?

• How do you feel when you are listened to?

• What do you learn when you listen to others?

Page 17: Student Leadership By: Rhys Andrews. Why a Focus on Student Leadership? Tomorrows leaders will be you We can help prepare you for leadership challenges

• Your experience is not what happens to you, but what you do internally with what happens to you. You create your experience. Ron Short

• The quality of life depends on what happens in the space between stimulus and responseanonymous

Page 18: Student Leadership By: Rhys Andrews. Why a Focus on Student Leadership? Tomorrows leaders will be you We can help prepare you for leadership challenges

Authentic Leadership

Behavior Practices

Skills Self

Framing Character

Alignment

Do

ing

Bein

g

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Moving from Inauthentic to Authentic

• What feels right • Sharing my truth in the moment• Self fulfilling – we are authentic to authentic

people• Be true to your values• My barriers do not have to be there

Page 20: Student Leadership By: Rhys Andrews. Why a Focus on Student Leadership? Tomorrows leaders will be you We can help prepare you for leadership challenges

The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is now.

Chinese proverb

Page 21: Student Leadership By: Rhys Andrews. Why a Focus on Student Leadership? Tomorrows leaders will be you We can help prepare you for leadership challenges

Trust

• Trust as belief in someone versus obligation

• The goal – an equal partnership

• Why is trust important to you?

• How do you know when someone trusts you?

• If I believe you are capable we are in this together

• If I expect you to take some action it requires dependency

Page 22: Student Leadership By: Rhys Andrews. Why a Focus on Student Leadership? Tomorrows leaders will be you We can help prepare you for leadership challenges

Why Team?

• Team supports a set of values ( listening, community, feedback, dialogue)

• Shared responsibility• Process and results• Support• Open communication

• Collaboration• Team is recognized• Try out ideas• Conform to team

standards• Preparation for future• Better problem

solving

Page 23: Student Leadership By: Rhys Andrews. Why a Focus on Student Leadership? Tomorrows leaders will be you We can help prepare you for leadership challenges

Avoid Accountability

Lack of Commitment

Fear of Conflict

Absence of Trust

Inattention to Results

Disablers of Teamwork Triangle

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Appropriate Assertiveness

• Using “I” statements to be clear

• State your case without arousing the defenses of the other person