While on vacation recently a member of my staff nominated me for residence life staff member of the month through the National Association of Residence Hall Honory Floyd B. Hoelting Nrhh chapter. The nomination had me in tears as the intention in my work was reflected back to me. To…
Strengths-Based Leadership
The impact of a cheer: the intention behind welcoming someone to a space
I missed an opportunity last night to make a point with my students so I’m going to be vulnerable and share it here in the hopes that it helps someone… An RA from another community who is also a peer educator in another office was about to co-present to our…
What an Honor
This morning I received word that I was nominated twice for the Floyd B. Hoelting Nrhh Professional Staff Member of the Month Award by Resident Assistants in the residential area of campus that I oversee. It was such an honor to read these well written letters of support (see attached…
Re-framing Diversity Experience
Once when I was prepared for job interviews I tried to identify examples of my competency with diversity and working with diverse populations (I am a advocate of Targeted Selection, Behavioral Based Interviewing due to the philosophy that the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior or the S.T.A.R. Method…
Leadership Lessons from Dance – Dancing from your Core
At a recent dance team practice my dance instructor spoke about dancing from ones core, being grounded, and deriving ones movements from ones center rather then moving limbs or becoming off balance by doing the steps and not being in control. He then provided an example of partnered dancing demonstrating how…