A Student-Led Group Leadership Opportunity
Leadership Circles are a development opportunity for emerging and experienced student leaders across campus to work as a collective toward a common goal or project related to leadership. Participants of the leadership circles can expect to…
- Work collaboratively on a leadership development project on campus
or in the community
- Attend a leadership circle retreat
- Engage in leadership discussions and trainings
- Work with a staff mentor for project assistance
In addition, students can expect to…
- Work with and develop relationships with others across campus
- Deepen their understanding of leadership, leadership theories, leadership styles and preferences and put them into practice
- Be challenged by working independently and as a group
- Share personal experiences and knowledge base to help the group process
- Strengthen skills related to leadership development including relationship building, communication, creativity, problem solving, accountability, assertiveness and organization
- Express the impact of the experience on personal leadership development and appreciate the opinions and input provided by others
- Reflect on personal strengths and the strengths of others
- Provide a meaningful leadership development experience for participants and for those impacted by the leadership projects
- Apply leadership principles and theories beyond graduation at UW-Eau Claire
Applications are due Friday, November 8, 2013. Students will be contacted after the due date to set up interview times to determine circle assignments in the following weeks.
> APPLY
Students, staff, or faculty members are also able to nominate students for this experience.
If you know of a student that would benefit from participating in a Leadership Circle, please nominate them.
> NOMINATE
Previous Leadership Circle Projects
- Make-a-Wish benefit concert
- LGBTQA activity, discussion and panel event
- Catered dinner and activities at local homeless shelter Sojourner House
- Marketing event with marketing director of Green Bay Packers and how to better market student organization events
- Student-to-student nights at which high school students and parents met with college students and staff to talk about higher education and what campus life is really like
- Body image event with statistics, images and personal conversations about body image in society and on campus, and a film with a discussion following
