Leadership workshops are open to all Elon students seeking to enhance their leadership knowledge and skills. These sessions will help you gain a deeper understanding of yourself as a leader, collaborate effectively with others, and drive meaningful change. Designed to be engaging and intentional, these workshops provide opportunities to connect with peers, explore leadership concepts, reflect on your strengths, and set personal and professional goals. Facilitated by the Center for Leadership staff, Leadershops are interactive and reflective experiences lasting 60–90 minutes.

Request a workshop for your group or team today! Topics can include but are not limited to the following:

  • “Elon Leader” Take an introductory dive into leadership development. This workshop will provide you with common language to understand concepts related to leader, leadership, power and change. Additionally, you will explore your personal definition of leadership and share your thoughts on leadership with other students.
  • “Leading with Strengths”: Uses the CliftonStrengths inventory to help you identify one’s talents for the purpose of building strengths. Note: The CliftonStrengths assessment requires a fee. The Center for Leadership will fund up to 15 assessment codes for student organizations. However, if your group is affiliated with a university department or academic course, you may be responsible for covering the cost of the codes.
  • “Inclusive Leadership”: Explores how our social identities and lived experiences inform and shape our ideas around leadership.
  • “Highly Effective Teams”: Understand the stages of group formation and awareness of the critical elements associated with high-performing, high-achieving groups, and teams.
  • “Leading Inclusive Teams”: Reviews ways to help leaders build and work within groups and communities that are diverse and representative of all identities.
  • “Communication and Teambuilding”Discusses the stages of group development and strategies for a group to come together to collaborate. 
  • “Cultivating Me-We-Us”: Utilizing Emotional Intelligence to support your professional goals and deepen your leadership skills.
  • “Leadership vs. Management” Outline the differences between leadership and management, and identify how both can be used to achieve group goals.
  • “Leading Your Peers” Utilizing the Student Leadership Challenge, which includes skills and actions in order to motivate and influence your peers.

Additional topics can include: 

  • Communication
  • Collaboration: Working Well with Teams
  • Listening Skills for Leaders
  • Teambuilding
  • Leadership Values
  • Effective Transitions
  • Event Planning
  • Feedback
  • Goal Setting
  • Marketing
  • Strengths-Based Leadership
  • True Colors
  • Emotional Intelligent Leadership
  • Member Motivation
  • Member Recruitment
  • Member Retention/Burnout
  • Budgeting/Fundraising
  • Socially Responsible Leadership
  • Imposter Syndrome: Know it, Name it, Tame it!

If interested in requesting a Center for Leadership workshop, please complete the form below. ***To allow time for scheduling and preparation, please submit this form at least 2 weeks (10 business days) before your requested workshop date.

Leadership Workshop Request

Please complete this form if you are interested in having the Center for Leadership develop and facilitate a customized Leadershop for your student organization leaders and/or members.
    Pick as many as you would like. These can be used as ideas for topics for your workshop.
  • Here are some Leadershops, CFL has available. However based on the needs outlined above, we can also customize a workshop for your group.