The Leadership Certificate Program Requirements
Requirements
To complete the Leadership Certificate Program, participants will be required to:
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(A) Sessions - Attend all program sessions (may be excused from a maximum of 2 workshops, a 3rd absence makes a student ineligible to receive certificate)
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Sessions are held Thursdays from 5-6:30pm in the Hegi Family Career Development Center & Community Engagement and Leadership Center suite (suite 200 in Hughes-Trigg).
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(B) Reflection Journal - Each session will begin with a five-minute journal time. Each student is expected to respond to the journal question or reflection prompt.
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(C) Accountability Groups - Participants of LCP are placed into small groups who will meet for approximately 30 minutes every other week to discuss and review the information presented in previous large group meetings and relate it to their own leadership development goals. The idea is based on the research done by Napoleon Hill, an author and speaker who studied some of the most successful people in our country (such as Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, and Woodrow Wilson.) He discovered that many of these people created a support team that regularly met to share ideas and hold each other accountable to their goals.
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(D) - Six hours of community service - Those in leadership ultimately have the responsibility of creating positive change for others. For this requirement you are responsible for finding meaningful opportunities to serve in the community for a minimum of six hours. Hours will be tracked and verified at the end of the semester.
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(E) - Celebration of Leadership Project - This is the final assignment for the LCP. Each student will be responsible for demonstrating his or her leadership journey throughout the semester, describing lessons learning, and illustrating the most impactful part (or parts) of the LCP through a chosen medium. Projects will be presented during the last session of the semester.