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Work with Dr. Edward Raimundi III on the everyday decisions that shape a team: communicating expectations, following through, navigating uncertainty, and asking for help. Bring a real situation; leave with a response to practice.
Student leadership shows up in a project handoff, an unanswered message, a difficult team conversation, or a commitment someone is counting on. A workshop creates room to examine those moments and rehearse a more deliberate response.
My approach connects higher education practice, an Ed.D. in Organizational Leadership, and scholarship on authentic leadership and student-athlete identity and persistence. The focus is practical: identify what is happening, understand your responsibility, and choose an action that fits the situation.
Sessions can be shaped for student organizations, student-athlete groups, emerging-leader cohorts, and campus leadership programs. The group’s experience, context, and access needs guide the examples. For professional staff or organizational leaders, explore the wider facilitation offering.
LEADERSHIP IN PRACTICE
Choose a focused learning purpose for the room.
Practice making a request that names the responsibility, the reason it matters, and how the group will check understanding. Consider how different people may experience the same message.
Work to keep: a revised request and a question to check shared understanding.
Examine a missed commitment or unclear handoff without guessing motives. Separate what happened, its effect, and the conversation needed to agree on the next action.
Work to keep: a conversation outline with an agreed follow-up point.
Reflect on the pressure to appear certain, identify what still needs checking, and practice asking for support while retaining responsibility for the next step.
Work to keep: a small leadership commitment and a way to review what happened.
Illustrative situation: a student project team has agreed to prepare an event, but two people understand the handoff differently. One believes the room request is complete; the other is waiting for confirmation. The group is frustrated and starts questioning commitment.
Participants first identify what is known and what they are assuming. They then practice an opening such as, “We have different understandings of the room request. Can we confirm what is complete, who owns the remaining step, and how we will let the group know?” The debrief examines clarity, responsibility, and the effect of the language.
The debrief asks participants to adapt the language to their own context and choose one conversation to approach differently. A follow-up reflection connects that commitment with what they actually tried and learned.
We agree on the audience and purpose before the session. Participants can use reflection, discussion, and rehearsal to identify one behavior they want to practice. A follow-through prompt asks what they tried, how another person experienced it, and what they will adjust.
Explore the Leadership Legacy Blueprint companion to see how scenario practice can connect with a private reflection and action plan. Read my research and publications for the original scholarship and its context. Use these resources to explore the approach before we discuss your group’s priorities.
No. Participants can work from a team, job, community role, student organization, or sport. A formal title is not required to examine responsibility, communication, and follow-through.
We can discuss a de-identified scenario that fits the learning purpose. Leave out private student, personnel, disciplinary, and other confidential information. Sensitive individual concerns should follow your institution’s established support processes.
No. The learning can use a written worksheet and conversation. Where digital resources are useful, we plan for device access and explain how optional saving works.
Choose leadership when the priority is how people communicate and act within a group. Choose career readiness when the priority is explaining experience, preparing an interview story, or investigating a career direction. We can discuss the connection without trying to cover every topic in one session.
SHAPE THE EXPERIENCE
Tell me who is attending, what they are preparing for, and what you want them to be able to try afterward. We will discuss fit, format, access, fees, and the work to carry forward.