Peer Advising

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The Organizational Development Consultants committee of SLP is tasked with providing student leaders the tools and resources necessary in running effecting organizations. Please visit their committee page for more information regarding peer advising.

Request a Workshop

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Want a workshop about teamwork, communication, advertising or just leadership? Send us a request and we will provide you with a fully planned and facilitated workshop based on your needs free of charge!

Please allow 2 weeks for us to process your request. Thanks!

Leadership Challenges

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Great leaders are those who seek new challenges and embrace the opportunities that accompany challenges thrust upon them. They use innovation to work through these challenges and learn from failures as well as successes.

Try the following strategies to grow and improve as a leader:

• View each job as an adventure
• Send people on idea-seeking expeditions
• Schedule time to gather ideas yourself
• Search for something that needs to be fixed
• Learn a new skill
• Experiment!
• Consider ideas that initially seem unusual
• Debrief all failures and all successes
• Take risks

To make extraordinary things happen, you must first have a vision and inspire others to share your commitment to that vision.

Here are a few strategies that can help you tackle these tasks:

• Focus on what you wish to achieve
• Follow your intuition
• Challenge your assumptions
• Allow possibilities for the future to pull you forward
• Make your vision concrete
• Speak positively and in accordance with your innermost values
• Listen to those in whom you want to instill your vision

To follow through with your goals, it is imperative that you have a clear picture of the future in your mind. Achieving positive change is all about immersing yourself in the details of the future you envision.

Choose a goal you want to fulfill and imagine what the achievement is like:

• How do you feel?
• Are there any changes in your character or abilities?
• Has the achievement brought about changes in others?
• How do other people feel?
• What is everyone doing? How are they reacting to your achievement?
• Is there the possibility for even more progress?

Leaders see challenges as opportunities to utilize the efforts of a team. In this way they can build relationships and call on others when they face a new challenge.

To instill the idea of teamwork in the members of your committee or organization, follow these tips:

• Build trust
• Use the word "we"
• Motivate people to interact with each other
• Encourage members to work in pairs
• Connect on a personal level
• Celebrate others' accomplishments
• Set an example to make others confident
• Educate everyone