The Leadership Development Center operates with the following guiding principles:

• A focus on IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT
  • Distinguishing characteristics of the individual.
  • Acknowledging ones perception of their identity as reflected in their own eyes and in the eyes of others.
• Guided by the concepts of SERVANT LEADERSHIP
  • A desire to serve first and then a conscious choice to lead.
  • Nurture and support others before leading.
  • By placing “leading” first, there is a tendency to support power and/or material objects.
• Anchored by THE SOCIAL CHANGE MODEL
  • Individual values
  • Group value
  • Community values
• Using the mechanism of the LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT OFFICE
  • An organization/facility designed to assist in identifying university wide resources for the understanding of identity and development of the servant leader.
  • This can include current and new workshops, classes, coaching, mentoring or access to the myriad of leadership opportunities existing around the university.
  • Illuminating the choice of leadership moments.
  • This office will maintain a Research and Assessment component.