ASI Leadership Library: Resources and Templates

How you manage your meetings is one of the biggest "risk factors " for participation and member investment. Learn best practices regarding planning (especially thinking through agendas and goals); logistics; and chairing skills and principles.

Clearly define the objectives for yourself or the group if you are the person responsible for the meeting. To help you think through your objectives, ask yourself some key questions.

Learn how to get work done in meetings. By rethinking and changing the culture of meetings, they can move from being energy-sapping to energizing environments.

Meetings can be an extremely efficient way to get things done quickly, to support building a team environment, and to enable collaboration among key people to produce a better outcome than possible working independently.

Parliamentary procedure is the body of rules, ethics and customs governing meetings and other operations of clubs, organizations, legislative bodies and other deliberative assemblies. Learn more about Robert's Rules and how to fully engage during your meetings.

Devote more attention to goal setting, developing a plan of action, and monitoring your progress. Decide where you are, who you are, and where you want to go, by creating S.M.A.R.T. goals.

Develop your own system by applying some key steps to increase your productivity. From keeping to a routine to simplifying your project list, consider how you identify your most important tasks.

Habits are powerful forces in our lives. They determine our level of effectiveness or ineffectiveness. Consider an approach to being effective in attaining goals by aligning oneself with character ethic principles that are universal and timeless.

Relationships in the workplace can get tricky, but you have to practice self-care. Be intentional in seeking balance in both assertiveness and empathy.

The key is assertiveness: a worldview, behavior strategy, and set of techniques that enables its users to get more of what they want by acknowledging, respecting, and accommodating the needs and wants of others.

Dispel limiting beliefs by being clear about what you want and need while also recognizing your own value. Use these exercises to reflect upon the differences in passive, aggressive, and assertive communication.

Most of us have a support system by default. Certain people have always been around and they automatically become the ones that we talk to. But, what if we put as much thought toward selecting our personal board as we would in selecting a corporate board?

The swift pace of change and the complexity of the challenges facing our colleges and universities is immense, and is testing the abilities of our institutions' leaders. building the leadership capacity of our institutions is the greatest challenge facing higher education.

We must work collaboratively to utilize the collective talents of our campus stakeholders. And learning to build high performing teams is one of the most effective ways we can meet the many challenges that confront us.

A list of key articles on leadership, curated by Patrick Sanaghan & Amit Mrig, from Academic Impressions.

PowerPoint presentation: In the summer of 2017, Ashley Joseph, Senior Coordinator of Student Engagement & Outreach, facilitated a discussion about setting personal goals and developing team objectives and organization targets.

Powerpoint presentation: During the summer of 2017, Ashley Joseph, Senior Coordinator of Student Engagement & Outreach, presented on learning outcomes as related to the evaluation and assessment process.

The advantages of student government participation within the workforce. Discover the benefits and development areas of student government and how they relate to employability.

Great public relations means setting up ongoing relationships with many important influencers (and therefore their audiences). Take steps to ensuring that your organization becomes an excellent data source for the influential.

Become a more effective marketing organization, discover your brand, and then determine the ideal way in which you'd like to be perceived. Arrive at ways in which your brand can add value to the organization, those you serve, and those you're working with.

Move beyond using your brand primarily as a fundraising tool and develop a broader and more strategic approach. Manage your organization's brand to create greater social impact and tighter organizational cohesion.

Start the planning process by identifying key collaborators and securing your event date, time, and location. Describe your learning outcomes and align your program with the organization's strategic goals. From publicity production to volunteer management, this tool is an important part of the planning process.

ASI Program Proposal

Participants can fill out a hard or soft copy of this card while on-site at your event. Retain data and track your outreach and marketing efforts. Find out what participants think of your event and what they'd like to see in the future.

ASI Event Evaluation Card

Reconnect with your initial learning objectives. Assess the success of your program by reporting on your events stats and budget numbers. Reflect on your overall effectiveness, quality of the program, audience reaction, and logistical functionality. How can you continue to improve?

ASI Post-Event Evaluation

In the summer of 2017, Dr. Jen Miller, Dean of Students, presented the concept of shared governance in postsecondary education and how it functions at Cal State LA.

Shared Governance & Administration of the University