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Leadership Workshop Series

As a service to student clubs and organizations on the University of Arkansas campus, the Center for Leadership & Community Engagement (CLCE) Staff is available to present a variety of leadership and organization development workshops, as described below.  If you would like a presentation on a topic not listed below, let us know. We may be able to tailor a session just for your organization!

To make arrangements for a workshop, please send an email to Lyndsy Manz (lmanz@uark.edu) with your request at least 2 weeks in advance. 

Featured Topics:

The Leadership Challenge
How does one know if they are truly maximizing their leadership potential? Not sure? Take the Leadership Challenge! Come learn the qualities of true leadership, the importance of modeling the way, and share your vision in order to truly maximize your leadership potential.

Teambuilding
Is your organization starting to hit a low point in participation? Are you feeling like the motivation just isn’t there? Want to help everyone reconnect? Teambuilding is your answer. Teambuilding activities help groups re-energize and reconnect to become a more active purposeful organization.

Planning Retreats
Retreats are ways for student organizations to get away from their natural environment and get some planning and goal setting accomplished. We are here to help you plan your retreat as well as facilitate the planning process that would occur. Check us out!

Diversity of Leadership: Dialogue on Campus Inclusion
What is the importance of having diversity of experiences in your organization? Diversity of experiences helps bring inclusion and a stronger sense of purpose to any organization. Find out the methods of building inclusion and incorporating diversity into your organization.

The Art of Motivation
Before one is able to get others motivated and involved, one first must find their own motivation. Come learn the tricks of keeping yourself motivated, getting other people motivated, all while managing your current workload.

Time Management: The Student Leader Balancing Act
Class work making you feel overwhelmed? Responsibilities of your organization stressing you out? What are some ways to effectively balance your time to relieve such stress, you ask? This presentation is for you! Learn some tricks to better managing your time and evening out the student/leader balancing act.

Understanding Leadership Styles
One’s leadership style is best utilized when that person is truly self aware of their style. How does that style develop? Why is it important to know your leadership style? Come learn about the many leadership styles in existence and how they have changed over the years. This presentation will allow participants to recognize their leadership styles and begin utilizing them instantly!

The Johari Window: Viewing Ourselves and Others
As student leaders, what are our personal views? Do those views match up with the views of our constituents? The Johari window is geared to identify just that. This presentation is designed for help participants identify the impressions they make and how they relate to how we view ourselves and how others view us.

Officer Transition
Instead of just leaving new officers to flounder and figure it out on their own, out-going officers can be helpful is setting things up for a successful transition. In this workshop you will learn how to pass on information about history of the organization, successes and challenges from the previous year, and projects that are still in progress. There will also be suggestions for how to help the new officers start off in the right direction.

Who’s in control? Running an Effective Meeting
What is the importance of running an effective and efficient meeting? Participants will learn how to make sure their meetings are both effective and efficient, and learn how to utilize parliamentary procedure to facilitate that purpose.

Why set goals?
Goal setting helps define an organization’s mission. They help the organization achieve tasks, and help individual members keep track of productivity. Plain and simple; goal setting facilitates preparation. Participants will utilize activities and discussions to discover the importance of setting goals and the steps to implement goal setting in their organization.

Fundraising
Fundraising is not only a process, but it is a principle. Many successful fundraisers out there stick to the same tactics that have been proven to be effective. Participants will learn strategies for planning and implementing fundraisers as well as ideas fundraising ideas that can be altered to meet the needs of your organization.

Money Matters! Creating and Utilizing a Budget
The goal of this session to prepare participants to be better informed about preparing and utilizing a budget. Participants will learn the structure in a budget, how to effectively analyze your organizations financial needs, and make sure the budget works for you!