The Leadership and Innovation Ore Cart includes opportunities for leading and engaging within a registered student organization or in the community along with actively participating in leadership training. It includes taking the initiative to solve a problem creatively while engaging beneficiaries and stakeholders in solution development activities or events.
Completing an activity or actively engaging in experiences focused on Leadership and Innovation will display student’s skills that are:
Emerging
- Identify and explain fundamental leadership principles, such as communication, teamwork, and setting a positive example.
- Articulate the value of using imagination, problem solving, critical thinking, flexibility and entrepreneurship in the context of fostering innovation.
- Develop basic communication skills including active listening, clear articulation of ideas, and the ability to adapt communication styles in diverse teams.
- Apply basic team-building techniques to enhance group cohesion and achieve common goals.
Developing
- Apply effective communication skills (oral and written) while serving as a mentor, coach, or leader.
- Formulate a vision, plan, and/or agendas for meeting team goals.
- Apply mediation skills to resolve conflict within a diverse team.
- Develop a project budget and/or business plan that is fiscally responsible.
- Respond to team, stakeholder, and/or customer needs during solution development or events.
Exemplary
- Develop an innovative mindset by imagining new possibilities and opportunities.
- Generate innovative ideas or products to solve problems.
- Navigate difficult opportunities, requests, or challenges without pre-existing guidance or record.
- Practice entrepreneurial skills such as creativity, audacity, intuition, growth mindset, and resilience.
- Create opportunities for collaboration and/or team building by leading a registered student organization or community events or groups.
- Significantly advance, transform, or rectify a new or existing initiative or organization.
- Create an inclusive team environment by valuing and elevating multiple perspectives among team members with diverse social identities.