Have You Checked Your Student Leadership Checklist?
Of course, you need your backpack, your pens and pencils, any notebooks and folders for the day, but did you make sure you’re bringing your leadership?
This might be an odd question to ask. What does bring your leadership even mean? As a student leader, you have a responsibility to best support your club, staff, or department every single day. (It can be exhausting, we know). Here are some checklist items you want to make sure you have before you walk out the door each day.
- An Open Mind: It’s important to always be as accepting and inclusive as possible when we’re talking about good leadership.
- A Good Attitude: Your attitude is reflected in your peers. If you walk into a meeting with a sour mood while you’re dragging your feet, expect the same from your fellow students.
- Determination: Often times, we are told no. We have these big ideas and dreams of programming that might not be approved at first. Keep at it. Keep working hard. You are capable of more than you realize.
- Selflessness: WE’RE HERE FOR THE STUDENTS! Sometimes we need that reminder when we get so caught up in life itself.
- Patience: It’s a process. Demonstrate patience with others when working as a member of a team. You would want to be afforded the same.
- Gratitude: Do your best to remember what you’re grateful for. We have mentors and leaders who have taught us so much. Serve others and give back to the students who have made a difference in your life.
"Tom's program is engaging, and it pulls students out of their shells especially if they are will a group they don't know very well."
"Excellent program! Interactive and offered practical knowledge that student leaders can easily use and connect to their own experiences. Our students left feeling empowered and excited to engage students. "
"I'm always impressed by how effortlessly our Swift Kick presenters can turn a room full of nervous students into an excited and friendly group of people. Our students always leave with big smiles, excited for the year ahead."
MEET Tom
LEAD FACILITATOR
After starting his first business in college that grew to $1.5 million in annual sales, Tom went on to be the Founder and Lead Facilitator of Swift Kick. Since 2004, Tom has trained over 850,000 leaders around the US and the world including England, South Korea, Indonesia, and Bermuda on how to build a Culture of Connection™ within their organization.
Tom has trained leaders at some of the largest companies in the world such as Coca Cola, Pfizer, Apple, and Nike. Through his speaking, he holds an unprecedented 7 National Speaking Titles from APCA. He is a TEDx speaker, held a Guinness World Record, and he sat on the boards for both the NYC Entrepreneurs’ Organization for 5 years and the NYC National Speaker’s Associating for two years.
Tom’s award winning program, Dance Floor Theory™, is recognized as the standard best practice for increasing community member engagement and retention rates. Organizations both small and as large as the U.S. Military have brought Tom in to train and deploy his methodology to turn apathy into action.
And on a personal note, Tom lives just outside of New Year City, was named after a cat, was on a reality show on NBC, was featured on the Tofurky box, got kicked off the Oprah Winfrey show, and loves peanut butter so much that he filed paper work to start a festival in NYC called the NYC Peanut Butter Jam.