PowerPoint for the Student Leader Strategy Session 2018 SLI

1. Building Bonner and
Campus-Wide Morale,
Leadership, and
Engagement
2018 Bonner Summer Leadership Institute
Student Leader Strategy Session

2. Introductions

3. Context
● Mobilizing Peers/Boosting Bonner Morale
● Effective Facilitation
● Designing and Running Meetings
● Public Speaking and Communication
● Effective Team Management
● Support and Management of Capacity Building Projects
● Organizational Management (managing systems and providing
administrative support)
● Data and Assessment
● Background in Community Engaged Research and Scholarship
● Mediate Accountability and Disciplinary Issues

4. SLI Survey Results
Boosting
Bonner
Morale/Peer
Mobilization
Effective
Team
Management
Public Speaking
and
Communication
Designing
and Running
Meetings
Effective
Facilitation

5. Boosting
Bonner
Morale/Peer
Mobilization
Effective
Team
Management
Public Speaking
and
Communication
Designing
and Running
Meetings
Effective
Facilitation
Elective Workshop Focus

6. Boosting
Bonner
Morale/Peer
Mobilization
Effective
Team
Management
Public Speaking
and
Communication
Designing
and Running
Meetings
Effective
Facilitation
Today’s Focus

7. Goals
● Engage in dialogue around issues, challenges, and circumstances
resulting from holding leadership roles in your Bonner programs
● Strategize methods of combating challenges and highlighting
strengths in the areas of boosting Bonner morale and
community, peer mobilization, and peer/team management
● Return to campus with key take-away strategies to troubleshoot
challenges and support your Bonner programs, campuses, and
communities

8. Shared Agreements
Step up/Step Out -- During discussions, we encourage our quiet Bonners to Step
up and contribute to the conversation, while also encouraging our Bonners with ‘larger
personalities’ to Step Out (figuratively) to make room for others to speak.
Don’t Yuck My Yum-- What one person may love, another may not. We ask
that everyone be respectful of others personal means of self expressions and opinions.
Communication-Station-- Keep an open line of communication! Express
your opinion and during times of strife, talk it out with the person(s) involved and not amongst
other peers.
48 Hour Rule-- If something offensive is said or done among the group, you have 48
hours to address it with the person or you must let it go.

9. Agenda
● Different scenarios: challenges, issues, or
circumstances dealing with three big skill categories
● 30 minutes to troubleshoot and create a 2-3 minute
skit
● 60 minutes for skit presentations to entire group
● 10 minute debrief/closing

10. Scenario
Discussion

11. Discussion Questions
● Have you encountered this scenario in your Bonner
program, campus, or community? How did you handle
it?
● What would be the best way to address the scenario
at hand?

12. Skit Performances

13. Skit Guidelines
● Be creative!
● Involve all members of the group in the skit
● Be able to share at least TWO strategies to combat
the issue/challenge/situation
● Share your skit in 3 minutes or less!

14. Key Strategies

15. Bonner Morale
● “Bonner Love” intern or leadership position is helpful to
boost community
● Ensure that there are ways for Bonner feedback to be heard
○ “Bonner Talk Backs” meetings
○ Intern office hours or one-on-ones
○ Anonymous survey
● Taking time to share strengths of the Bonners/highlight
each Bonner

16. Peer Mobilization
● Utilize existing structures for engagement (e.g. service
requirements for Greek life and/or campus organizations)
● Appeal to student interests (e.g. advertise issue-based
opportunities to students studying that topic or previously
interested in that site)
● “Bring a friend” initiatives

17. Team Management
● Utilize surveys to gauge member interests
● Create team bonding opportunities such as social events,
with input from team members
● Create opportunities to meet in informal settings with team
members (coffee talks, Bonner Talks Lunch, etc.) for a more
holistic understanding of each member
● Have specific guidelines for behavior and disciplinary action
(e.g. probation) that are followed so that team members
know they will be held accountable

18. Overall Strategies
● Student Leadership is pivotal
○ Recruitment & Selection
○ Training
○ Implementation
● Establish expectations from the beginning
● Establish ground rules or shared expectations

19. Thank You
Enjoy the rest of SLI!