Team-Building & Leadership Training for High School Student Councils
Custom training with your student leaders at your school
Workshop Focus
To develop empowered student leader teams in student councils and student government organizations
Topics Covered
- Identifying individual strengths and building individual confidence and competence
- Understanding and developing a Team Concept
- Defining the group's vision for their program
- Creating a participant-led mission statement and Action Plan (2-Day Workshop)
- Establishing expectations of one another
- Improving communication skills
- Understanding why and how people communicate
- Learning to speak more articulately and positively
- Building skills in problem solving and communication through games under time duress
- Role playing of body language, tonality and empathic listening
- Understanding behavior and the role it has on human interaction
To learn more about the problems teens have in leading, methods used in the workshop, and expected outcomes following the workshop, please read Problems, Methods and Expected Outcomes.
For further information, please read this description of Team-Building and Leadership Training. This article on Team-Building and Leadership is also available as a longer MS Word document.
This link shows examples of mission statements created in high school student government workshops.
You can also read quotes from student leaders who have participated in a team-building and leadership workshop for high school student councils.
Workshop Length
Our team-building and leadership training workshops for student council leaders range from one to three days at your site.
A recommended one-day follow-up workshop is also available.
We offer a $100 discount with purchase of 4 days of services.
Book Recommendations
Participants who want to prepare in advance or follow up on our workshops will want to read some of our book recommendations.
References
Any links in this list are for the complete letters of reference about Peter's workshops for student councils.
Michelle Cannella, Student Council Advisor, Bishop Gorman Catholic High School, Nevada
Evelyn Collazo, Director, Commonwealth School, Puerto Rico
Bill Cook, Principal, Marvin Ridge High School, North Carolina
Mitchell Curry, Principal, Commerce Middle School, Texas
Millie DelGrosso, Advisor, Vero Beach High School, Florida
Dr. Betty Krohn, Vice Principal, James Bowie High School, Texas; Former Vice Principal, Haltom High School, Texas
Martha Talbot, Principal, West Mesquite High School, Texas
Robert Tesar, Retired Principal, Jefferson High School, Iowa
Greg Whitehead, Retired Principal, Miamisburg High School, Ohio
Jenny Zornes, AVID Coordinator, Scott Johnson Middle School, Texas
Please contact us for more information about our team-building workshops for student government organizations.