Workshop Descriptions
LDS 004 Stressed? Laugh It Off
Feeling stressed? Learn the real low-down on stress, how we need it to function in our lives and how a good sense of humor can be a good stress buster.
Presenters: Chris Austin
Date Offered: February 23, 2004 - Room 3118
LDS 014 Accelerating Creativity & Innovation
Learn how to be more creative and innovative through problem solving and exploring how you think. This is a fun, hands-on experience where you will leave with tools that actually work.
Presenter: Mital Patel
Date Offered: March 2, 2004 - Room 3118
LDS 019 Team Building
This workshop focuses on group effectiveness and assessment which are the key characteristics of teams & leaders. Stages of group & team development and team building exercises are covered. Learn to deal effectively with individual & group needs.
Presenter: Mindy Sopher
Date Offered: February 26, 2004 - Walnut Room
LDS 022 Introduction To Leadership (Core Workshop) This workshop has been rescheduled for 2/12/04
You will gain practical knowledge of leadership fundamentals essential to becoming an effective leader. You will learn to think and verbalize important leadership principals and techniques. You will learn a number of practical leadership/management concepts of principals that you can begin immediately. You will learn about the most powerful force in your life and how it relates to your leadership. Imagine that you are having an interview with your future boss and he/she asks these questions: What is Leadership? How do you lead another person or group of people? Where does you leadership take place and with whom? What does it take to be a really effective leader? If the thought of responding to these questions makes you feel a bit uncomfortable then this workshop is for you. To be an effective leader, you must have basic understanding of leadership and be able to verbalize it effectively.
Presenter: Ronald C. Butler
Date Offered: January 26, 2004 - Room 3118
LDS 043 "The One-Minute Manager"
Explore the three personnel skills effective leaders use to create enthusiasm and inspire employee commitment and success. Based on the best selling book by Ken Blanchard & Spencer Johnson
Presenter:
Date Offered: February 23, 2004 - Walnut Room
LDS 051 Leadership Tools for Women
This interactive program is designed to examine what women have learned about themselves as leaders. Discover how to apply our strengths, negotiate rough spots, and develop skills.
Presenters: Cynthia Meekins-Mattocks &
Amiee PantonDate Offered: February 5, 2004 - Room 3118
LDS 057 Personal Financial Management This workshop has been
reschedule for 3/4/04
This interactive workshop will help you gain a better understanding of how to manage your money. Debt management, personal investing, and goal setting will all be discussed.
Presenter: Mike Giancola
Date Offered: January 27, 2004 - Room 3118
LDS 065* Ethics as a Second Language (Core Workshop)
Working with real cases, understanding the problem and forces that shape ethical values in transactions with family and friends; with employees, the employer, peers and customers.
Presenter: Harlyn Van Sloten
Date Offered: February 19, 2004 - Room 3118
Learn to build commitment from the members of your organization/group. Discover your role in the service area as a manager or leader. Learn how to bounce back from mistakes or miscommunications. Create ways to provide and give employees autonomy necessary to meet goals and expectations. Discover the importance of celebrating successes!
Presenters: Brenda Bessard & Dana Davis
Date Offered: February 12, 2004 - Room 3118
LDS 072 From College to Corporation
Interactive. Discussion, tips and strategies on how to ease the transition. What to do, where to go, what to expect, and how to handle those first weeks/months on your new job.
Presenter: Barry Olson
Date Offered: March 2, 2004 - Walnut Room
LDS 080 Assertive Communication
Are you meeting your communication goals? Do people with whom you interact have a clear understanding of who you are and what you are trying to accomplish? Assertive communication involves making choices about when and how to get your point across in a clear, yet respectful manner. An easily remembered approach will be taught and practiced in the 2-hour session.
Presenter: Deb Collins Luckadoo, Ed.D.
Date Offered: February 16, 2004 - Room 3118
LDS 081 Gender Communication
Participants explore gender stereotyping and the impact it has on the various roles they will have in their lives.
Presenters: Cameron Wells and Brandon Whitney
Date Offered: February 25, 2004 - Room 3118
LDS 098 Preparing For Your Job Search
Learn what employers expect of new college graduates in business and social settings. Learn to communicate on a professional level and how to get the job you want.
Presenter: Diane Ocilka
Date Offered: January 27, 2004 - Walnut Room
LDS 109 Mediation
You will experience the mediation process, learn how mediators formulate questions in a neutral manner. Polish your listening skills and practice validation of feelings. Understanding the importance of underlying issues and interests. Discover mediators' techniques to prevent the escalation of conflict. Realize that disputes must generate their own solutions.
Presenter: Jessica Jameson
Date Offered: March 3, 2004 - Blue Room
LDS 111 Working With Diverse Populations (Core Workshop)
Designed to engage leaders in a "building strength through diversity" discussion. Increased awareness of cultural differences.
Presenters: Carrie McLean and Carmen Christopher
Date Offered: February 9, 2004 - Room 3118
When performing at their best, leaders challenge, inspire, enable, model, and encourage. This inventory helps you discover to what extent you have adopted these practices and provides you with a starting point to begin your leadership journey.
We suggest taking this workshop first.
Presenters: Student Leadership Consultants
Date Offered: Jan. 28, Feb. 11, Feb. 12, Feb. 18, Feb. 24, and Feb. 25, 2004- Blue Room.
Leadership is taught and this workshop highlights the qualities great leaders possess. Learn what events or circumstances occur that distinguish those who lead from those who follow.
Presenter: Brian Koehler
Date Offered: February 25, 2004 - Walnut Room
LDS 136 Leadership & Spirituality
Are your leadership qualities and spirituality connected? Through guided imagery and other exercises, this workshop focuses on self-exploration and discovery.
Presenter: Tomecca Sloane
Date Offered: February 17, 2004 - Walnut Room
Discover what personal, group norms, and values are through assessment, discussion, scenarios and intervention strategies. Learn how to make the tough choices in life easier.
Presenter: Mindy Sopher & Evelyn Reiman
Date Offered: February 12, 2004 - Walnut Room
LDS 139 Group Communication
Ever have trouble getting a point across? Personality types can influence the way you communicate with others. Learn about your style and how to encourage your group members to overcome conflicts or barriers due to personality differences
Presenter: Princess Hicks
Dates Offered: February 24, 2004 - Walnut Room
LDS 140 Speak Out On Diversity
If you are looking for and opportunity to engage in a vivid discussion on diversity, this is the workshop for you. Attendees will participate in interactive exercises and role play case studies. This program will be an eye opening experience for all that attend. Participants will be challenged to examine the issues of race, gender, sexual orientation, disability issues and other issues of difference. You will learn how to appropriately confront racism and manage diversity in your clubs and organizations. Join us and take the first step to stopping the silence.
Presenter: Tia Doxey
Date Offered: February 18, 2004 - Walnut Room
LDS 141 Taking Care of Yourself
Being a successful leader is hard work. We often find ourselves doing more for others than we do for ourselves. Someone said "Honor yourself, honor yourself". Well, honor yourself by participating in this workshop. This participatory session will introduce you to strategies for taking care of you. as you lead others into the new millennium. Learn how to honor your self with principles such as; Awareness, Acceptance, Affirmation, and Fun. For those who choose to participate, I welcome you!
Presenter: Alicia Hartsfield
Date Offered: March 1, 2004 - Walnut Room
LDS 143 Developing Your Leadership Style
Participants will examine different leader styles and explore characteristics of leadership, personal goals and objectives regarding leadership and team building. Participants will gain insight into effective leadership for enhanced personal achievement.
Presenter: Jo-Ann Robinson
Date Offered: March 18, 2003 - Walnut Room
LDS 149* Servant Leadership (Core Workshop)
Participants will study historical servant leaders such as Mother Theresa, Jesus Christ, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Maya Angelou, and others (Note religious figures will be view as historical and literary characters for the purposes of this workshop). Review roles, functions, and responsibilities of such leaders. Finally, participants will reflect on their own abilities to serve their constituents and develop a plan of action in further implementation of the servant attitude.
Presenter: Tierza Watts
Date Offered: February 10, 2004 - Room 3118
LDS 153 Spizzerinctum
This is part 2 of LDS 022 - Introduction to Leadership. After attending LDS 022, you will read a book written by Mr. Butler that can be purchased at the University Bookstore or the Student Leadership Office. After reading this book, email Mr. Butler (ronald_butler@ncsu.edu) and he will send you some questions to answer. Once you have responded to the questions, he will notify us.
LDS 154 Motivating Your Team
Fulfilling the needs of others motivates people to action. This workshop will teach you how to use needs-based leadership skills to determine and meet the needs of others thus encouraging them to achieve group goals.
Presenter: Michael Romnek
Date Offered: March 16, 2004 - Walnut Room
Effective communication tools including the use of critical thinking, listening, decision-making, and interpersonal skills will be discussed to enhance your marketability within a growing global economy. Strategies that will assist in maneuvering the organizational structure and understanding today's corporate climate will be discussed.
Presenter: Dr. Monica Leach
Date Offered: February 24, 2004 - Blue Room
LDS 158 Building Bridges: A Leaders Guide to Creating Diverse Organizations
Part I and II
T
his is a two part series that focuses on building inclusive organizational climates which will allow all organizational members to effectively work together. The workshops will be interactive and you will leave with tools for leading diverse teams. Participants will:Presenters: NC State National Coalition Building Institute Facilitators
Date Offered: Part I - February 16, 2004 - Blue Room
Part II - February 26, 2004- Blue RoomLDS 158 Building Bridges: Leading Diverse Groups Through Conflict
Prerequisite: Building Bridges: A Leaders Guide to Creating Diverse Organizations, LDS 158 Part 1 and 2This interactive workshop will teach and provide an opportunity to practice skills to work through group conflicts. The model that will be shared will assist any leader in moving groups embedded in controversy to listening and understanding.
Presenters: NC State National Coalition Building Institute Facilitators
Date offered: March 17, 2004 - Blue Room
LDS 161 Project SAFE
This program provides a safe, nonjudgmental campus climate for those who may have questions and/or concerns related to gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender issues. Project SAFE strives to promote understanding and support for all members of the NC State Community by educating individuals and providing on open forum for discussion.
Presenter: Justine Hollingshead
Date Offered: February 11, 2004 - Walnut Room
LDS 162 Conflict Management
Conflict is a part of everyday life. In this workshop, we will explore conflict, our attitudes towards it, and ways to manage it. We will discuss strategies for resolving both interpersonal and group conflicts.
Presenter: Martha Pierce
Date Offered: February 11, 2004 - Room 3118
LDS 164 Time Management & Life Planning
Everyone has the same amount of time in each day, right? Why do some people get more done during the same amount of time. Do you find yourself at the of the day looking for your to do list and realizing you did a lot of "stuff: today, but got nothing done. Well, this is the presentation for you! In this presentation you will learn how to organize your organization, structure your academic life, and do things that are important to you.
Presenter: Eddie Lovett
Date Offered: February 17, 2004 - Blue Room
LDS 165 Goal Setting
Having trouble setting goals and following through with your responsibilities? This workshop will examine ways to help you set and follow through with your goals. Participants will work on setting their own goals using techniques learned in this workshop.
Presenter: Adrienne Jablonski
Date Offered: March 18, 2004- Room 3118
LDS 168 Slow Your Role!
Many times student leaders experience burnout through over-commitment, lack of delegation, and poor time management skills. This workshop will address those issues and help students to learn more effective ways to handle these ever common situations. We will discuss ways how to "slow their role" and still lead effectively while maintaining sanity as a student.
Presenter: Stacia Solomon
Date Offered: March 3, 2004 - Room 3118.
LDS 169 Developing Compelling Visions (Core Workshop)
Participants will gain a greater understanding of the concept of vision and how it is influenced through personal values. Also, discover a sense of empowerment in articulating a bold and compelling vision and create an action plan to make your vision a reality.Presenter: Mike Giancola
Date Offered: February 16, 2004 - Room 3118
LDS 170 Risk Taking
Ever thought you were living life too safely? Are you afraid to step outside your comfort zone? Learn when risk taking is acceptable and explore how others have grown from their experiences.
Presenters: Mital Patel & Damion Martin
Date Offered: February 17, 2004 - Room 3118
LDS 171 Organizational Skills
Have trouble finding important documents when you need them? Come to this workshop prepared to do some self analysis about your fears and frustration regarding paper and other desk clutter.
Presenter: Joshua Bledsoe
Date Offered: February 9, 2004 - Walnut Room
LDS 173 Getting Involved In Your Community
With all the talk of jobs, graduation, grades, etc., we often at times forget about ourselves and what we can do to truly make a difference. This workshop will focus on the things we can do to improve our environment and make a difference in the world.
Presenter: Damion Martin
Date Offered: March 16, 2004 - Blue Room
LDS 174 Recognizing Leadership Opportunities
Everyday activities present leadership opportunities but most people do not recognize them. This workshop should help you develop the ability to recognize leadership opportunities and grab hold of the moment and respond accordingly.
Presenter: Phil Moses
Date Offered: February 10, 2004 - Blue Room
LDS 175 Leadership and Emotional Intelligence
Emotional intelligence is composed of the emotional and social skills through which we cope successfully with the demands of life and leadership. In the session you will learn how to monitor emotions in yourself and in others, to discriminate among those emotions, and to use this information to guide thinking and actions to become a more successful leader.
Presenter: Adam Culley
Date Offered: March 1, 2004 - Room 3118
LDS 176 Scruples: Do You Have Any?
This workshop will examine values, ethics, morals, and scruples. Group discussions, and activities will lead us into playing the game "Scruples" to see if you have any! Take the challenge.
Presenter: Tierza Watts
Date Offered: March 16, 2004 - Room 3118
Kouzes and Posner define leadership as "The art of mobilizing others to want to struggle for shared aspirations." Leadership is then not using power and authority to coerce someone to do shared action. Using the five practices for leadership, this course teaches participants how to implement specific action steps to become a leader who can make a difference.
Presenter: Vanessa Compton
Date Offered: March 18, 2004 - Blue Room
This hands-on workshop will allow the participants to engage themselves in how to lead within groups. Attributes needed within group processing will be identified, as well as a step-by-step format, which leads to empowering, goal directed outcomes.
Presenter: Debbie Reno
Date Offered: March 17, 2004 - Room 3118
LDS 179 The Art of Leading with Integrity
This session will explore the concept of leading with integrity. Specific topics that will be covered include making decisions based upon a set of principles, building lasting relationships founded upon mutual respect and shared goals, and maintaining integrity in a leadership role.
Presenter: John Mountz
Date Offered: January 28, 2004 - Walnut Room
LDS 180 Leadership Is Everything
To be an effective leader in corporate America today there are some critical laws of leadership you must understand and skills you must develop: integrity, influence, momentum, trust, priorities, inner circle, etc. Evaluate your leadership skills and upgrade your leadership effectiveness.
Presenter: Dr. Darrell Pond
Date Offered: March 1, 2004 - Blue Room
LDS 181 Project Management Tools
This basic introduction into project management will help participants put their personal and professional goals into a workable action plan. In order to participate in this workshop, participants will need to come with a goal to achieve and/or a project that they want to complete.
Presenter: Mike Zeinstra
Date Offered: February 18, 2004 - Room 3118
Being an inclusive leader involves the integration of the person's experiences, knowledge, and perspectives to accomplish a common goal. This session will help participants understand the concepts of inclusive leadership, develop skills to lead with inclusivity, and begin to see stereotypes as the foundation of discrimination.
Presenter: Chris Dobek
Date Offered: February 4, 2004 - Room 3118