For more information, please contact:
Stanley J. Gajda, Jr.
Spartans Leading Spartans Coordinator
(336) 334-5800
Students
What Do You Want To Accomplish?
Do you want to excel at a new leadership position? Get ahead professionally? Make better decisions? Become a more effective leader? Is your group ready to increase membership? Be more active on campus? Pack its programs? Are you striving for total success as an individual, executive board or overall organization? If you have answered yes to at least one of these questions then Spartans Leading Spartans Peer Consultants is for you! Spartans Leading Spartans are ready to partner with you to help you achieve any and all of these objectives.
How Do We Fit Into That?
SLS offers student leaders coaching and facilitates workshops for student organizations. As your peers, Spartans Leading Spartans realize that the pressures of school and organization rank high in your life and occasionally you may need some help. That's where we come in. We are not here to tell you what to do but can help you make decisions and take action to better your organization and OUR campus. Our consultants:
- Share awareness and expertise, yet remain neutral during discussions
- Insure open communication and dialogue, and allow for continued productivity throughout the session
- Draw on their collective experiences and discuss strategies, techniques and suggestions
Why Are We Here?
The Spartans Leading Spartans Peer Leadership Consultant Program mission is to engage and develop UNCG students demonstrating the highest potential for cultivating leadership and citizenship in themselves and others through peer-to-peer consultation, facilitation and programming.
Peer-To-Peer Impact Makes All The Difference!
Leading higher education research indicates that approximately 70% of what a college student learns happens outside the classroom and the greatest impact of this learning comes from a student's peer group (George Kuh, 2000). The Spartans Leading Spartans' model of peer consultation was designed under this premise. Spartans Leading Spartans is the only student driven program on campus geared toward student organization development.
Top Reasons To Try Spartans Leading Spartans:
- Effective Guidance From Peers You Know & Respect
- Confidence Generating Meetings With Timely Approaches
- Collaborative Relationships That Solve Real Problems
How Can We Help You?
Each semester, Spartans Leading Spartans hone a specific area of expertise and facilitate workshops in their respective area. Here's a sample of the areas and learning outcomes we can help you master. If you don't see what you're looking for, just ask us: All consultation, facilitation and programming is tailored and made to meet each client's specific needs.
- Change
- Understand the difference between change and transition.
- Know the three stages of transitioning and the challenges associated with each.
- Identify why individuals resist change and develop strategies to address this resistance.
- Be able to anticipate people's reactions to change and take proactive steps to minimize the negative impact of resistance.
- Goal Setting & Values Development
- Identify your personal and organizational governing values
- Learn fundamental precepts involved in strategic planning including organizational purpose/mission, goals, objectives, tasks, time-line and resource allocation and planning
- Apply this knowledge into a working strategic plan for your organization
- Fundraising
- Understand the most effective fundraising and program management principles concerning identifying funding sources
- Learn how to professionally communicate and partner with potential funding sources
- Discover new and innovative fundraising and merchandising techniques
- Motivation
- Discover how and why motivation evolves and sustains
- Develop skills for identifying and fostering motivation
- Leave with strategies and solutions for personal and organizational motivation
- Networking
- Discover how and why you should network
- Develop skills for being effective when speaking with potential business people
- Leave with strategies and solutions as well as better communication skills
- Officer Transition
- Address frequently unasked questions
- Merge old and new processes
- Analyze past processes, determine current needs and address future concerns today
- Establish and leave a legacy
- Parliamentary Procedure
- Discover how and why parliamentary procedure is necessary
- Review and learn how to apply Robert’s Rules of Order to organizational meetings
- Public Relations
- Understand what public relations is and how PR differs from publicity
- Identify your organizations publics
- Conduct a PR audit for your organization that will include a self-analysis, goal setting, and a strategically organized action plan and evaluation
New Workshops:
SLS creates new workshops as the need arises so that we can better meet the needs of the students.
Who Are Our Consultants?
Appointment to Spartans Leading Spartans is deemed among the highest honors and responsibilities accorded to students at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Spartans Leading Spartans are students who demonstrate a personal commitment to leadership in their own lives and who teach others to do the same through workshops for organizations and personal consultations for individual leaders. Consultants are exceptional adult, nontraditional and traditional students. Many are IMPACT graduates. Most importantly, Spartans Leading Spartans are seasoned student employee and organization leaders. Although services are free to affiliated student organizations, consultants are generously compensated for each program presentation. Spartans Leading Spartans are contract employees of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro with the prestige, learning and development therein.
How Do I Apply To Be A Consultant?
- Applications will be collected beginning the first day of classes but must be returned 5:00pm, Wednesday, October 1, 2008, for fall and by 5pm, Wednesday, February 18, 2009, for spring semester to the Office of Student Life, 252 Elliott University Center. Take this opportunity to inspire positive change in your life and the lives of your peers, organizations, and campus life at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
- Interviews will be begin the following Tuesday afternoon (October 7 for fall; February 24 for spring) in room 241 of the Elliott University Center and continue by appointment.
- If appointed to Spartans Leading Spartans, you will be required to attend training and orientation on Saturday, October 11, 2008 for fall semester applicants and Saturday, February 28, 2009 for spring semester applicants from 10am to 3pm in room 241 of the Elliott University Center along with one-hour weekly meetings throughout the year. You must also authorize the Office of Campus Activities & Programs to verify that your grade point average meets the 2.5 minimum requirements for Consultant selection and appointment.
How Can I Find Spartans Leading Spartans?
Spartans Leading Spartans manage the Student Organization Success Center and offer consultation, services and resources from here. Print resources include over 150 books in the Leadership Library and countless pamphlets on a variety of topics including Parliamentary Procedure, Running Effective Meetings and Time Management. Media resources include tapes and videos on empowerment, leadership and study skills. Other resources include leadership themed board games and playing cards perfect for student organization meetings and retreats. Finally, cutting edge leadership journals, magazines and other periodicals flourish the Resource Center. The Spartans Leading Spartans Office/Student Organization Success Center is located in room 241 Elliott University Center. Stop by and see us today!
WE EMPOWER, YOU LEAD!
We know that in order to lead, you must follow. Your peers trust you to lead them and our goal is to help you do that in a more effective manor. Your organization deserves success and you can achieve it. The slogan “We Empower, You Lead” speaks to campus organization members and officers who want to become even better leaders and enhance the organizations to which they belong.
Reference:
Kuh, G.D., Douglas, K.B., Lund, J.P., Ramin-Gyurnek, J. (2000). Student Learning Outside the Classroom: Transcending Artificial Boundaries. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass: Higher & Adult Education Report Series.