Ready to Roar: Leadership

July 16, 2024

LSU produces highly capable students that are ready to enter the workplace of any discipline. The combination of professional experiences, academic pursuits, and involvement opportunities on and off campus produce graduates that are: Ready to Roar.

learn more about ready to roar

 

communication icon

 

leadership


What is leadership?

The ability to recognize and capitalize on personal and team strengths to achieve organizational goals. The ability to influence and motivate others to achieve a common goal. 



What leadership looks like:

  • Inspiring, persuading, and motivating self and others under a shared vision. 
  • Seeking out and leveraging diverse resources and feedback from others to inform direction. 
  • Using innovative thinking to go beyond traditional methods. 
  • Serving as a role model to others by approaching tasks with confidence and a positive attitude. 
  • Motivating and inspiring others by encouraging them and by building mutual trust. 
  • Planning, initiating, managing, completing and evaluating projects. 



Where to build leadership skills as a student:

 

How employers may ask about leadership:

  • Tell me about a time when you took the lead on a team project. 
  • Describe a situation in which your efforts influenced the actions of others. 
  • Guide me through a situation where you had to motivate others to achieve a common end goal. 
  • Tell me about a time when you faced a lot of challenges in your work. How satisfied were you with the end results and why? 
  • How have you served as a role model for your peers in a non-leadership role? 



How to put leadership skills on your resume:

  • Oversaw floor meetings and floor programs to inform and entertain residents. 
  • Recognized and responded effectively in emergencies. 
  • Enforced all aquatic facility policies, rules, and regulations. 
  • Led monthly meetings with 11 staff members and adviser to share updates and determine progress. 
  • Managed flag football and soccer programs supervising more than 60 teams, 900 children, and 120 volunteers. 
  • Supervised 20+ referees, facilities management staff, marketing staff, and public relations staff. 
  • Coached students to develop study schedule to increase time management skills. 
  • Managed and assisted the day-to-day activities of the Advertising Account Executives, including collecting all unpaid accounts over 60 days past due. 
  • Independently led fourth grade classroom of 30 students for 12 days in urban, public elementary school. 



DOWNLOAD THE READY TO ROAR: LEADERSHIP PDF