As I mentioned last week, I had the opportunity to direct a leadership camp. The general structure of that leadership camp looks like this: a combination of leadership instruction, relationship investing, and real life leadership experience. The real life leadership experience comes in the form of leading rec for the …
wes Motivation and Leadership
Let’s talk about Student Leadership today. More specifically, let’s talk about developing Students with leadership potential. Over the past 5 years I have had a student leadership team of some sort. The intensity has increased each year as I try to find the right balance between commitment and over commitment. …
Pour Into People
I’m at camp this week working a group of student leaders. We will be teaching leadership principles, giving them opportunities to lead, and teaching them to evaluate as they go. So, today’s thought is a short one: find people to pour into. They are all around you. They vary in …
Why I Love Leadership Trip
I’m in the process of wrapping up our 5th annual Student Leadership trip. Here are three things I absolutely love about our leadership trip. The Variety – We have talked to three different people already, with one left. Each person has presented unique information. In fact, in the 5 years …
Communicating Expectations
You know, for someone who has written 150+ blog posts about leadership, you might think I would learn some of my own stuff along the way. Last week we took a trip, and one of the biggest tensions on the trip was the realization that I had not clearly communicated …