The Student Leadership Competencies Guidebook

Bridge the gap between leadership development and career preparation!<br /><br />This guidebook gives leadership educators the tools they need to help students develop the competencies necessary for their chosen careers and required by their academic programs. It also offers a way to understand and demonstrate the effectiveness of leadership programs. <br /><br />Organized into chapters each focused on one of 60 leadership competencies common across 522 academic degree programs accredited by 97 agencies, each chapter covers: <ul> <li>a definition and description of the competency through the lens of each of four dimensions: knowledge, value, ability, and behavior;</li> <li>a scenario related to college student leadership that showcases the competency in action;</li> <li>related competencies to help readers understand how developing one competency may also intentionally or unintentionally develop another;</li> <li>a correlation of the competency to the Relational Leadership Model, the Social Change Model, the Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership, and/or Emotionally Intelligent Leadership; and</li> <li>tangible curricular ideas to use with students to help them develop each dimension of the competency.</li> </ul>