2nd Semester Leadership: 3 Ways to Finish the School Year Strong
The second semester is here, and what normally happens is leadership starts moving in slow motion. Some people are focused on graduating, others are focused on what they will do during Spring Break, and others are simply just burned out from a busy fall semester. Here are three ways that Justin Jones-Fosu, leadership extraordinaire, suggests to ensure successful and strong leadership throughout the spring semester.
1. Maintain the Momentum
More than likely, you had a super busy fall semester. A semester that was full of great programs, community service initiatives, recruitment and a lot of hard work. This is the perfect time to remind your members the purpose of your organization and why they are doing what they’re doing.
Tips for ACTion: Share the mission of the organization again and start off the semester talking about last semester. Talk about what went well and what could have been improved.
2. Inspire Your Members
Your members have just gotten back from a long winter break, and they need your inspiration. Inspire them by challenging them to make this semester even better and encourage them to renew their commitment to the organization to help finish the year strong. There is still time to make a huge impact on your campus community!
Tips for ACTion: Lead by example and share with your members how you plan to finish strong. Also, meet with your members and discuss specific ACTions that can be implemented in order to make a difference on your campus community.
3. Focus on Succession Planning
Do you want this to be the best year ever for your organization? I ask this question in my presentations and usually all hands go up. The sad part is that this is not true leadership. True leadership wants next year to be even better than it was this year. You can make next year better by starting this semester.
Tips for ACTion: Don’t only delegate things that you don’t want to do. Instead delegate the “sexy” stuff and your members will appreciate you for it! Create a transition plan where you share the knowledge/insights you’ve gained as a leader. Sharing your successes and failures will help your successor become an even better leader.
Justin has great strategies for leadership integrated into his keynotes. He speaks on a variety of topics but always challenges students and staff to ACTion. When you bring Justin to your campus, you will always get an exciting keynote full of high-energy and important lessons for success.
Check out campuspeak.com/jones-fosu to see Justin’s most popular keynote, Be An ACTion H.E.R.O.: The Actions of the Super Successful Student Leaders.
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