Discovering Your Leadership Style, Potential and Impact
Tuesday, August 27 through Wednesday, August 28, 2013
OVERVIEW
The SAISLeads Retreat aims to provide students with a unique professional development experience that will introduce leadership skills and impart knowledge to prepare them to be effective leaders throughout their careers and within their daily lives. This two-day retreat will focus on leadership development through self-awareness, group dynamics and team building. The program will use experiential leadership techniques that will help the participants learn by doing. Participating students can expect to reflect on their own experiences, engage with fellow students and establish goals for future leadership development.
The retreat is tailored to the needs of the SAIS students and complements the SAIS academic curriculum. An outside trainer, educated in leadership theory and skills, will run the program along with additional professional facilitators.
TOPICS
Self-Awareness Assessment:
Evaluating individual strengths, values, weaknesses, progress and future learning objectives; developing critical self-awareness; gaining a greater degree of control over how we are operating in the present, instead of reacting to something conditioned by our past; knowing ones inner resources, strengths, abilities and limits.
Group Dynamics/Team Building:
Understanding of the behavior of people in groups. This can be the interactions that influence the attitudes and behavior of people when they are grouped with others through either choice or accidental circumstances. It encompasses interpersonal relationships, norms, roles, development, awareness, need to belong, social influence and effects on behavior.
SCHEDULE
Students will be required to attend the full program. The retreat runs approximately 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. each day.
Current first-year students are invited to apply to this program by clicking the "APPLY NOW!" link above and completing the application process. Applications are due no later than Monday, April 15. Decisions will be made by Monday, April 22, 2013.
Accepted students may use the Charge Slip to pay their depost.