Honors Retreat Coordinator
This past fall (Fall 2016) I had the pleasure to be one of four Retreat Coordinators for the annual UHP Welcome Retreat. The retreat serves as the first official interaction many incoming freshman have with each other and with the university (through the Honors Program), and so it has the potential to be a pretty impactful experience. This year, we tried to focus more so on building community for the incoming students and so we developed less programming for the retreat and spent more time focused on creating options for them to partake in during the extra free time we now had, not to mention actually incorporating the facilities the camp had to offer such as some low ropes activities. The weather was nice this time around as well and that only added to the experience I hope the students gained from going on the retreat.
Having previously been a Retreat Leader for the past two years, it was nice to take this next step in providing students with a similar experience to my own when I went on the retreat as a freshman. The whole process from meeting throughout the spring and summer to the actual week of the retreat was very rewarding and I wouldn’t trade it for the world. As part of our initial meetings, we were asked to read the Student Leadership Challenge: Five Practices for Becoming an Exemplary Leader, as well as take the online self-assessment that came with it, to get a feel for where we stood as leaders and what we could do to help us be more effective. Since then, I feel like I’ve been more conscious of my actions and the effects they have, as well as more aware of my strengths and weaknesses. Using the assessment, I’ve also done my best to improve my leadership practices in areas that may not have been up to par, and hopefully become a better person throughout the process as well. I have attached a copy of my assessment results below, partly to hold myself accountable and also to show where I stood as a leader & hopefully have improved from.
Having previously been a Retreat Leader for the past two years, it was nice to take this next step in providing students with a similar experience to my own when I went on the retreat as a freshman. The whole process from meeting throughout the spring and summer to the actual week of the retreat was very rewarding and I wouldn’t trade it for the world. As part of our initial meetings, we were asked to read the Student Leadership Challenge: Five Practices for Becoming an Exemplary Leader, as well as take the online self-assessment that came with it, to get a feel for where we stood as leaders and what we could do to help us be more effective. Since then, I feel like I’ve been more conscious of my actions and the effects they have, as well as more aware of my strengths and weaknesses. Using the assessment, I’ve also done my best to improve my leadership practices in areas that may not have been up to par, and hopefully become a better person throughout the process as well. I have attached a copy of my assessment results below, partly to hold myself accountable and also to show where I stood as a leader & hopefully have improved from.
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