Post-millennial students come to our schools, classrooms, and athletic teams lacking not only skills in leadership, but desire and commitment to lead as well. This entertaining and engaging session begins by examining the characteristics of post-millennial students, then equips teachers, coaches, guidance counselors, and administrators with surprisingly effective and practical ways to transform those characteristics into strategies that attract student leaders, inspire them to lead, and prepare them with skills and knowledge to grow their leadership skills in ways that benefit them and the students and adults with whom they work every day. The session is designed to maximize leadership in student and school organizations, on athletic teams, and in the school and community as a whole. The interactive, hands-on workshop will focus on two important areas: (1) preparing students to act as leaders and (2) equipping students with key skills and knowledge for leading successfully. Those attending will come away with a process they may implement to develop students through integrity, self reflection, long- and short-term goal setting, positive risk taking, coping with and planning for change, individual and group decision-making (including a process for making difficult decisions), commitment, progress monitoring, and sustainability. Teachers, coaches, guidance counselors, and administrators will prepare students as leaders by:

* Relating a process for identifying and recruiting student leaders;

* Appraising students’ knowledge and skill as leaders;

* Extending workshop leadership development concepts into attendees’ settings to maximize the practical benefits to students, organizations, teams, schools, and communities; and

* Devising plans to establish leadership development as an ongoing process that becomes more and more effective over time.

Catered lunch included!