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What is the Terrapin Leadership Institute?

The Terrapin Leadership Institute (TLI) serves to empower students to achieve their leadership potential through a multi-week leadership workshop series. TLI recognizes leadership as a skill that can be developed in all people, opening doors for individual growth and social change. The approach of the Terrapin Leadership Institute is to focus on three core areas of leadership- the individual, the group, and the community. All sessions are interactive and designed to make the process of learning about leadership fun and meaningful. The cost to attend TLI is completely free.

The TLI program has four tracks to address three core areas of leadership:

1. The Leadership Challenge (focus on individual values of leadership)
2. Good to Great (focus on group values of leadership)
3. Social Issues and Leadership (focus on community values of leadership)
4. Voices of Social Change (focus on community values of leadership)

Who Can Benefit from TLI?
EVERYONE! Leadership development helps you gain a greater understanding of your own talents, values and interests, and empowers you to facilitate positive change as a member or leader of a group. TLI recognizes leadership is a skill that can be developed by all people. Additionally, all students that attend four of the five sessions for their track will receive a certificate of completion for their records.

2009-2010 TLI Schedule:

1. The Leadership Challenge - Thursday's from 7:00pm-8:30pm beginning September 17th through October 15th in Benjamin Banneker B (2nd floor of The Stamp)
2. Good to Great- Thursday's from 7:00pm-8:30pm beginning October 22nd through November 19th in Benjamin Banneker B (2nd floor of The Stamp)
3. Social Issues and Leadership, Spring 2010
4. Voices of Social Change, Spring 2010

Description of Each Track:

The Leadership Challenge

This is a 5-week leadership development program focusing on 5 exemplary leadership practices (Model the Way, Inspire a Shared Vision, Challenge the Process, Enable Others to Act, and Encourage the Heart). The Leadership Challenge track is designed to build basic leadership skills and is appropriate for students at any phase of their leadership development. This model was designed by researcher Kouzes and Posner and presented in their popular book: The Leadership Challenge. From the authors: More than ever there is a need for leaders to inspire us to dream, to participate, and to persevere. The Leadership Challenge offers everyone the chance to do just that - to take the initiative and make a difference. The Leadership Challenge is about how leaders mobilize others to want to get extraordinary things done. It's about the practices leaders use to transform values into actions, visions into realities, obstacles into innovations, separateness into solidarity, and risks into rewards. It's about a climate in which people turn challenging opportunities into remarkable successes.

Good to Great

This is a 5-week leadership development program to help you to shift your ideas and thinking in order to create something great. What makes organizations and ideas successful and how can you work collaboratively with others to be a part of something great. Good to Great was written after 5 years of research on what makes organizations extraordinary and this TLI track will help you to consider and be successful at the group dimensions of leadership. From the author: This book addresses a single question: Can a good company become a great company, and if so, how? Based on a five year research project comparing teams that made a leap to those that did not, Good to Great shows that greatness is not primarily a function of circumstance; but largely a matter of conscious choice and discipline. This book discusses concepts like Level 5 Leadership, First Who (first get the right people on the bus, then figure out where to drive it), and the Flywheel.

Social Issues and Leadership
This 5-week leadership development program will focus on exploring the intersectionality of leadership, social issues, and oppression in our society. Each week, participants will explore a different social issues, they will examine the root causes of the social issue, and they will gain depth and a broader understanding of the social issue and how the power of leadership can create positive social change.

Voices of Social Change
This 5-week leadership development program will bring stories of social change to your head and your heart. Each week, we will feature an agent of change that has created sustainable, long-lasting social change in our community. These powerful stories will not only provide you with a deep appreciation for community-based work, but they will also teach you about the process of engaging in social change. Through the stories that are shared, we hope you will be inspired by these leaders and that their stories will help encourage you to engage in leadership for positive social change.

Questions?
Should you have questions about the Terrapin Leadership Institute program, please contact Ramsey Jabaji at rjabaji@umd.edu.