Practicing Values-Based Leadership & Decision Making: An Abbreviated Facilitator’s Guide

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Description: 

This workshop will help participants identify group values and understand how leadership decisions reflect group values and healthy environments free of hazing in an interactive way. Participants will engage in activities that allow them to consider their own practices and work with other student leaders to think through the decision-making process with their group values in mind.

Duration: 60-75 minutes

Learning Outcomes: 

  1. Reflect on your current group values, culture, and behaviors and how they support the goals of the group. 
  2. Consider how you can craft a group culture that is welcoming to all members and supports the goals of the group. 
  3. Utilize a process that uses your group values to inform decision making that intentionally shapes the group in a healthy way.

Overview of Training:

  1. Introductions, Learning Outcomes, & Community Guidelines 
  2. Organizational Values Activity 
  3. Leadership Dilemma – Small Group Activity and Discussion 
  4. “Start, Stop, Stay” Action Plan 
  5. Hazing Prevention Education 
  6. Wrap-up & Closing

Note: This builds on an evaluated workshop the Dartmouth College created as an evaluation case study in the Hazing Prevention Consortium (HPC).