Objectives:

The modules seek to develop students through eight core values:
Tier 1 - Individual Leadership
Tier 2 - Group Leadership
Tier 3 - Community Leadership

Tier 1 - Individual Leadership

Tier One focuses on development of the individual.

Module 1 - What is Leadership?
Value: Overview of Social Change model and its key values

This module will help students understand the concept of leadership by comparing various definitions and theories. Students will explore the skills and capabilities of effective leaders while determining their own goals.

Module 2 - Owning Your Message
Value: Congruence

Is what you’re saying matching what you’re thinking? How you convey your message is MORE important than your message. During this module, participants explore the importance of body language, voice tone and modulation, and the words we use in the context of effective communication.

Module 3 - Stand Up (Confidently) and Be Heard - Part One
Value: Congruence

Leaders often find themselves standing up and speaking on a moment’s notice. It takes a lot of composure, some quick thinking, and a good dose of confidence to speak in an impromptu setting AND say something intelligent. In this module, you will learn and practice two frameworks for organizing what you say and how you say it. You will also practice and learn techniques for controlling your nervousness so you can give presentations with confidence.

Module 4 - Career Planning
Value: Consciousness of Self

This module introduces participants to the elements of career planning and career decision-making. This module is an interactive workshop that focuses on self- awareness and the information and resources needed (and available) to make purposeful career decisions.

Module 5 - Effective Self Management
Value: Consciousness of Self

Time management, being assertive, recognizing and managing stress, and staying motivated are all personal development skills explored in this module. Participants will learn about the sources of stress, the advantages of an internal locus of control, and methods to make sure their own needs are met while being a productive and supportive member of any team.

Module 6 - Diversity
Values: Consciousness of Self and Congruence

This module provides a forum to explore how diversity issues can affect any working environment. Participants will discuss visible versus invisible differences, assumptions and biases, and language.

Module 7 - Campus Leadership and Engagement
Value: Commitment

It’s time to put what you have learned thus far to practice. How can you create change in your campus or neighbourhood? Where do you want to commit your time and effort? This module will help you become aware of the timing and application processes, as well as the responsibilities, of many student leadership positions. See what practical leadership is all about!

Tier 2 - Group Leadership

Tier Two focuses on development from a group perspective.

Module 8 - Team Building and Motivation <
Value: Collaboration

This module will introduce the “Five Stages of Group Development” and give examples as to what each stage may look like. Coming up with name games, activities, teambuilders, etc., is sometimes difficult and knowing when to use which one is also a challenge. This interactive module will provide practical experience in team development and continuous motivation.

Module 9 - Facilitation
Values: Collaboration and Common Purpose

Facilitation is a complex communication skill. The information and activities presented in this module will provide participants with the skills needed to conduct effective meetings, to moderate discussions, and to appropriately mingle and network in a variety of situations.

Module 10 - Stand Up and Be Heard - Part Two
Value: Common Purpose

Good leaders are able to bring together a group of people through generation of a shared vision and goal. In order to create such influence, leaders need to possess solid public speaking skills. This module will examine how voice, gestures and audio-visuals can enhance your public speaking skills. Be prepared to present a brief speech. You will be given time to prepare during the session.

Module 11 - Conflict Management
Value: Controversy with Civility

Learning how to anticipate and identify potential conflicts is one of the most important leadership skills - by knowing our own conflict management style and being prepared, we can effectively deal with these situations. Conflict has both potentially negative and positive outcomes, and by being aware of them, we can learn from every interaction. Participants will learn about their own conflict management style, and learn about and practice the five ways to handle conflict situations.

Module 12 - Advanced Conflict Management
Value: Controversy with Civility

This module will take conflict management to the next level. After practicing with some real-life situations, participants will learn about the “negotiation model” and the different techniques to deal with some high-end conflict situations. This model introduces the “win-win” tool, which ensures that the interests of all parties are taken into consideration. This advanced four-stage negotiation process will be practiced through scenarios and role-plays.

Module 13 - Effective Arguments and Critical Thinking
Value: Controversy with Civility

This module seeks to blend public speaking skills with the skills used in debating. This module and introduces participants to the Point - Argument - Evidence model and to Argumentative speech structures.

Module 14 - Capstone Module

How has participation in the above modules affected you? What have you learned? What changes did you make in your life? Students must come prepared to share a five minute presentation with the other participants. The module will explore what was learned, but also look towards the future and help participants determine goals for further leadership development.

Tier 3 - Community Leadership:

Students wishing to complete Tier Three will need to submit an action plan that details the volunteer hours, role (where applicable), and what specific leadership skills will be used. The action plan should include start dates and end dates of volunteering and a deadline for essay submission. Tier Three requires students to:


Self and Community Responsibility explores the relationships between individuals and communities by investigating the following three questions: Who am I? Who are we as a community? Who can I and we become in relationship to one another and through responsibility to self and community?

The course is organized in three parts according to these questions, yet a fundamental presupposition of the course is that the processes of exploring each of the three questions are intertwined. We discover our individual identities in communities, and communities take their particular shapes because of the unique individuals who comprise them.

The Social Change Model of Leadership Development provides a framework for students to explore experientially and reflectively the three major questions of the course. Community service-learning offers a way to experience and analyze the satisfactions and challenges of building community as a class, college and wider society.

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