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Assumption College
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College of the Holy Cross
Houghton College
Mass. College of Liberal Arts.
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MIT
S. New Hampshire University
NACA NE Regional Conference
New England College
Nichols College
Norwich University
Regis College
Roger Williams University
St. Anselm's college
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Plymouth State University
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Western New England College
University of Connecticut
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College Programs

For more information, or for available dates, please call Mike at 1-888-364-5323 or send him an email mike@youcanlead.com

Attention: Student Government Associations, Residential Hall Staff, Orientation Leaders, Greek Life, Campus Activity Boards and Resident Hall Associations!

Please note that we teach a variety of subjects concerning Leadership. Following is a sampling of programs for leadership training and new student orientation programs. All sessions are customized according to desired theme and time allotment..

What is Leadership?
Changing minds…empowering students
We all live within a definition of what we think leadership is. This workshop is a definitional workshop designed to encourage organizational change through the 5 changes in the definition of leadership.

  1. Leadership is about actions and choices not about positions or titles
  2. Leadership is a learned skill not an innate ability
  3. Leadership is about influence within an organization not just the tasks assigned.
  4. Leadership is about the success of an organization not the glory of an individual.
  5. Leadership is about vision for the future not the maintenance of the past

Getting Things Done
Building systems....teaching follow-through
Organizations accomplish goals and do their work within the framework of systems. This is a workshop designed to provide planning and follow through systems to help organizations to be more productive.

The seven steps for effective planning:
  • Vision - Defining purpose, passion, and values (what would you like the future to look like?)
  • Dream - Exploring the possibilities (If we could do anything to build our vision, what would we do?)
  • Focus - Making choices of how we spend our resources. (How do we want to spend our time and money? Does it reflect our vision?)
  • Aim - Set goals and objectives ( Is it specific, measurable, appropriate, reasonable, and do we have a timetable?)
  • Plan - Delineate the steps needed to accomplish the short and long term goals. (What is the strategy to accomplish our plan?)
  • Build - Establish organizational structure to implement the plan. (Who does what, when and how)
  • Manage - Establish a follow up plan to make sure what needs to get done, gets done.

Building a Great Year
Building purpose....defining values
Ready! Fire! Aim? Sometimes we spend so much time figuring out the "How to" that we neglect the "Why and where to" This session takes participants through a pyramid of productivity with the goal of defining what's important and developing a strategy to get it.


Working Together
Have fun....get more done
An interactive workshop designed to provide 6 tools for better interpersonal interaction.
  1. Integration
  2. Visualization
  3. Imagination
  4. Communication
  5. Delegation
  6. Implementation
This workshop is taught using creative experiential initiatives. It is fun and designed to be high energy. Individuals learn to work together by being put in non threatening situations where in order to succeed the group must work well together. Learning is accomplished by doing.


Get An Attitude!!
Building the ability to bounce back
This session is designed to define the need to bounce back when life rots and provide concrete strategies to shorten the bounce back time. Major points:
  1. Life is what happens to you. Attitude is how you react to what's happened to you
  2. Attitude is a choice. Choose to bounce back
  3. Action affects attitude
  4. Attitude is contagious
  5. We shorten the bounce back time when:
    • Focus on where are successes are and work on our weaknesses
    • Develop verbal and physical cues to ignite change.
    • Take our eyes off of our own problems and help others with theirs
This program is available on DVD. Please contact us if you'd like a free copy!

Filtering The Static
Strategies for understanding each other
This session presents 5 truths concerning communication, 2 models of communication, an 7 strategies for more effective teams through better communication
  1. Communication always happens
  2. Communication can be intentional or accidental
  3. Communication is a bi-polar problem
  4. Each of us is personally responsible for effective communication
  5. If you have time to fix it, you have time to do it right the first time
The spaghetti model
The Filter model
  1. Build the desire
  2. Build relationships, know the history
  3. Listen for content, meaning, and intent
  4. Understand meaning not just words
  5. Eliminate filters
  6. Be an active listener
  7. Understand the benefits

Advisor Training
Training skills vs. teaching information
This session is designed for faculty who work as advisors for student based activity groups. The focus is on how to build great student leaders in a purposeful organized manner. Major Points:
  1. Teaching imparts knowledge, Training changes behavior
  2. There are three parts to training, Head, heart and hand
  3. Leadership evolves over time and develops best when started at an early age
  4. Effective programs have leader feeder systems


Orientation
5 Changes for College - Student Edition
It's new…it's exciting…it's scary!

Senior year has come and gone and now it's time to start all over. How you think - your attitude - can make or break your freshman year. There are 5 major changes that students need to make to ease the transition to college life.

  1. Life is a series of choices and all of the choices have consequences
  2. Education is a process and you have to choose to participate in it
  3. A good year is defined by the friends you make not just the grades you get
  4. Success comes when you work together
  5. College is a time of personal growth. Dare to think big!
Have fun with this interactive adventure for parents and students. Make friends, make choices, work together, enjoy the process, think BIG!

5 Changes for College - Parent Edition
It's new…it's exciting…it's scary!

For 18 years you've worked, invested, cried, laughed and had fun watching them grow. We live in the age of "helicopter" parents. We hover around trying to solve our children's problems. But now it's up to them. This session provides concrete tools and realistic answers to the challenges of letting go.

The father of 2 college age sons, Mike speaks from experience. With stories and activities, he paints a realistic picture of the transitions our relationships go through as we transition to parents of college age students. You'll laugh. You'll cry. But best of all you'll leave with ideas and strategies on how to help your child succeed and excel in college.

This program is available on DVD. Please contact us if you'd like a free copy!