The Carolina Leadership Institute is a year-long, highly interactive leadership development program for all undergraduate students throughout the state of North Carolina with an interest in Latino culture and community.
Learning Outcomes:
- The LÍDER fellows will:
- Gain a greater understanding of the self as a leader.
- Learn frameworks useful in leadership environments at school and in their community
- Take on risks, are vulnerable, and communicate their vision with clarity and enthusiasm
- Participants will leave feeling empowered, understanding that they do not have to check their identity at the door to be a leader
Guiding Pillars:
- Leadership Development through the development of self-awareness and interpersonal awareness
- Fellowship Building through a celebration of diversity, inclusion, and integrity
- Community Engagement through purposeful innovation to better our community
Objectives:
- Session I Objective: Leadership Development and Fellowship Building
- Participants will define leadership and begin to identify their leadership style through self-awareness, team building, and reflection exercises.
- Session II Objective: Leadership Development and Community Engagement
- Participants will learn and apply internal and external frameworks to identify and solve peer problems as well as real-world problems.
- Session III Objective: Community Engagement
- Participants will recognize a project they want to tackle and work to execute a plan for their idea as an individual or in teams.
- Session IV Objective: Fellowship Building
- Using the Open Space framework, participants will design their final workshop for the program. During the graduation event, participants will receive recognition for their hard work over the year.