I once heard a coach, who was very optimistic about his player’s abilities, respond to a loss by saying, “We didn’t lose the game, we just ran out of time.” Unfortunately, no matter how you view the game coach, you lost. Last night I was watching the 49ers play the Saints on Monday Night Football. I am a diehard 49ers …
Reflecting On Your Experience
Have you ever heard the phrase: “Experience is the best teacher“? According to www.phrases.org.uk, the history of the phrase can be traced all the way back to Julius Caesar: EXPERIENCE IS THE BEST TEACHER – “The great Roman leader Julius Caesar recorded the earliest known version of this proverb, ‘Experience is the teacher of all things,’ in ‘De Bello Civili’ …
You Can’t Control The Weather
Last night, our student leadership team was hosting our annual Rootbeer Fest. It’s one of our biggest events of the year and kicks off Week One events. Our students pulled out all of the stops this year and rented a giant screen and 7000 lumen projector from the City of Meridian. They bought a powerful FM transmitter and transformed the …
Leadership Marks
Every student leader has the opportunity to leave a mark on their campus and community. The question is, what kind of mark are you going to leave? The following 5 minute seminar addresses some of the marks a “good” leader will leave. Using the symbols we encounter everyday on our computers and keyboards, I tie them to key leadership attributes. …
Spewing or Doing
We just completed our student leadership retreat – we call it LEAD. This year we did something a bit different in our training. Each of us who spoke were given FIVE minutes and TWENTY slides. We got the idea from an event that takes place here in Boise (called Ignite Boise). So we spoke on a specific topic for 5 …
The Smartest Person In The Room
…doesn’t have to be the leader. Now I don’t mean to say that the leader doesn’t need intelligence, or common sense, or some type of intellectual capacity. What I do mean to say is the leader doesn’t have to know more than everyone else. In fact, I also think the leader doesn’t always have to know HOW to do things …
5x5s – Five Minute Training Worksheet
Five by Fives (5x5s) Five Things To Think About For Five Minutes Note: This is a reposting of a resource I originally wrote for studentlinc.net. Running Effective Meetings. Brainstorming. Fundraising. Working With Advisors. Handling Conflict. Getting New Members For Your Organization. Publicity. Leading. Follow-Up. How do you effectively train for these things in short, bite-sized amounts of time? How can …
Updated My Resource Page
Some of you may know that I started out blogging and creating resources over at www.studentlinc.net. It’s a student leadership site I created that provides articles, tools, and resources for both student leaders and those who work with them. I’ve been transitioning some of my writing and resources from that site to this one. Today, I moved a number of …