CUSTOMERS INCLUDE:
Avon Old Farms
Bancroft School
Belmont Hill School
Brewster Academy
Bridegeton Academy
Brooks School
BB&N
Cheshire Academy
Concord Academy
Cushing Academy
Deerfield
Dublin School
Emma Willard
Fay School
Foreman School
Groton
The Gunnery
Hebron Academy
Holderness
The Hotchkiss School
Kimball Union Academy
Kingswood-Oxford School
LaSalle Avademy
Lawrence Academy
Loomis-Chaffe School
Lexington Christian Academy
MacDuffie School
Marvelwood School
Millbrook School
Milton Academy
Moses Brown School
New Hampton School
Noble and Greenough School
Phillips Andover Academy
Portsmouth Abbey
Proctor Academy
Rectory School
River School
Salisbury School
South Kent School
St. Andrew's School
St. Georges
St. Marks
Kent School
St. Paul's School
Suffield Academy
Tabor Academy
Tilton School
Vermont Academy
Westminster School
Williston-Northampton School
Wilbraham & Monson Academy
Worcester Academy





Independent School 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 Proctors, Prefects, Monitors, Student Governments, Student Activity Groups

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 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