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Pryor Leadership Program: Program Details
- Focuses on personal, professional and community leadership
- Provides individual assessment, development, coaching and mentoring
- Provides opportunities for students to practice their leadership skills
- Exposes students to regional, national and world leaders
- Emphasizes the servant leadership model throughout
- Encourages students to leave a leadership legacy, i.e., to "give back" to the community
Program Components:
- Introductory Seminar (2 credit hours)
- Self Learning – 360 feedback –leadership growth plan
- Situational Leadership
- Servant Leadership
- Outward Bound—15-day service-leadership experience—Florida Everglades (2 credit hours)
- Activities: expeditions, solo, high ropes course, service project
- Four Pillars: self-reliance, physical fitness, quality, compassion
- Leadership Lab: adaptation and change, courage, commitment, teamwork
- Internships (2 credit hours)
- Volunteer Internship—fosters civic volunteerism and civic leadership
- Vocational Internship—allows students to explore career interests
- Capstone Seminar (2 credit hours)
- Leadership Growth—a life-long process
- Leadership Legacy—a life-time responsibility
- Lecture Series (0 credit hours)
- Exposes student to regional, national and international leaders
- Provides interdisciplinary perspectives on leadership and the common good
Selection process: Includes nomination by a faculty member, a written application and a personal interview—up to 36 students are admitted each year.
Required readings:
- On Leadership by John Gardner
- 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Steven Covey
- Situational Leadership II by Ken Blanchard and others
- The Servant as Leader by Robert Greenleaf
- Leader of the Future by the Druker Foundation
- Leading With Soul by Bolman and Deal
- For your Improvement by Lombardo and Eichinger
Program Founders are William Jewell Alumni: Fred and Shirley Pryor of Pryor Resources
Director: Dr. Sylvia Nadler—nadler@william.jewell.edu or 816-781-7700, ext. 5492
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