Workshops by Request

Recognizing the importance of conflict in personal and professional relationships is a key skill in teamwork. In this workshop, we explore how conflict often arises and how it can be an opportunity for change and greater understanding. We will help students assess their personal conflict management technique and learn strategies to build their conflict management skills. 

Illinois Leadership Competencies Addressed: Relationship Management, Openness, Group Dynamics

This workshop is designed to help students understand their talents to improve their self-awareness and efficacy, as well as to leverage their talents in academic life and beyond. Prior to the workshop, participants must complete the CliftonStrengths assessment which generates their top five talent themes. To learn more, visit the CliftonStrengths webpage.

Self-awareness involves getting perspectives from others, but feedback can lead to defensiveness, avoidance, and toxic team dynamics. This workshop focuses on how leaders can create an environment where feedback is shared helpfully and healthfully. To foster a culture of feedback, students learn the qualities of quality feedback and practice different models of how to give and receive feedback. 

This workshop, created in collaboration with We CU, provides information about what to expect over the course of a service project, how to successfully communicate and collaborate with your community partner, and how to critically reflect on the role that service experience plays in your personal and professional growth. This workshop is strongly recommended for volunteers about to start their service project.

Illinois Leadership Competencies Addressed: Service-Minded, Communication, Relationship Management

In this workshop, you will learn more about the Illinois Model of Leadership and discover courses, events, and resources to enhance your leadership abilities using our online self-assessment module.  Take the Illinois Leadership Inventory here.

Illinois Leadership Competencies Addressed: Self-Knowledge, Self-Management

Leaders usually desire to be empathetic but are often asked to make hard decisions that can hurt or disappoint others. In this workshop, participants will learn how to balance empathy and effectiveness through compassionate leadership. Defining features of this workshop include practicing active listening and tools to prevent empathy burnout. Participants will have the opportunity to make the key connections between empathy, compassion, and leadership.

Illinois Leadership Competencies Addressed: Empathy, Communication, Reflection

Discussions and brainstorming can easily get out of hand without structure and guidance. In this workshop, you will learn the different aspects of healthy individual and group brainstorming processes. Everyone will practice different types of thinking to facilitate effective and efficient decisions for themselves and their organizations.

Illinois Leadership Competencies Addressed: Self-Management, Common Purpose, Innovation

Appreciation is increasingly recognized as a key factor in healthy workplaces. In this workshop, we explore the importance of sharing gratitude in order to create trusting relationships at work. You will practice a framework to meaningfully share their appreciation in professional settings.

Illinois Leadership Competencies Addressed: Human Dignity, Relationship Management, Reflection

Anyone can be a leader — but what about a servant leader? The main goal of a Servant Leader is to serve others. This means prioritizing others’ ideas and goals over your own and valuing relationships first in your leadership. In this workshop, participants will recognize what servant leadership looks like, identify the core competencies of Servant Leadership and learn how to encourage others to practice servant leadership.

Illinois Leadership Competencies Addressed: Integrity, Followership, Change Management

Sustainability leadership drives solutions for complex environmental, social, and economic challenges. This workshop aims to teach participants how to evaluate your leadership values and relate them to the pursuit of environmental sustainability. Participants will learn how to define sustainability, and the qualities that make an environmentally conscious and sustainable leader, applying them to everyday scenarios.

What makes one an authentic leader? By telling personal leadership stories, people reflect on different aspects of leadership such as their values and beliefs, their goals, the actions that they take to achieve those goals, and why their role as a leader is important. In this workshop, participants will learn the purpose of telling their leadership stories and how to tell a story that represents their purpose as a leader. Participants will be able to draft and practice telling their story in a way that highlights who they are as a leader. 

Illinois Leadership Competencies Addressed: Empathy, Communication, Reflection