Leadership
Recognize and capitalize on personal and team strengths to achieve organizational goals.
Sample Behaviors
- Inspire, persuade, and motivate self and others under a shared vision
- Seek out and leverage diverse resources and feedback from others to inform direction
- Use innovative thinking to go beyond traditional methods
- Serve as a role model to others by approaching tasks with confidence and a positive attitude
- Motivate and inspire others by encouraging them and by building mutual trust
- Plan, initiate, manage, complete and evaluate projects
Develop
Over the course of your educational experience at TU, you can gain proficiency within the leadership competency through some of the following methods:
- Join a student club or organization (could be academic, honors, social or athletic!)
- Start your own club!
- Find part-time or full-time work opportunities (find on- and off-campus work through Handshake)
- Visit Civic Engagement & Social Responsibility for community engagement opportunities
- Participate in Tigers Lead, TU’s three-tier leadership development program
- Visit Student Activities to find leadership opportunities offered through TU
- Seek leadership and active membership in clubs/organizations
- Seek out leadership roles in classes and group projects
- Complete internships and other experiential learning opportunities
- Join a society such as National Society of Leadership and Success or Omicron Delta Kappa
- Participate in experiential education (internships, Study Abroad & Away Office and/or service-learning)
- Become a student peer leader (i.e. student leadership consultant, orientation leader, student manager)
- Pursue executive board roles in student organizations
Develop your skills
LinkedIn Learning
Develop your leadership skills by completing these free LinkedIn Learning courses. Select the course title below, click “Sign in,” and use your TU email to get started.
- Leadership: Practical Skills
- Leadership Upskilling in a Zoom Economy
- How to Lead and Inspire Change
- Be a Better Manager by Motivating Your Team
- Managing Innovation
- Building Trust
- How to Win Trust and Connect Masterfully
- How to Speak with Effortless Confidence
- Building Self-Confidence
- Being Positive at Work
Articulate
Use the following list of action verbs to describe activities related to leadership:
- Accomplish; achieve; authorize; chair; coach; coordinate; delegate; develop; enable; encourage; engage; envision; evaluate; execute; facilitate; foster; guide; instruct; launch; lead; manage; mentor; motivate; oversee; plan; prioritize; review; spearhead; supervise; train
Sample Resume Bullet Points
- Led information sessions for prospective students and their parents while answering questions about academic programs, campus life and student activities
- Planned an annual networking fair to assist students with finding internships and jobs in the integrated communications field with over 20 vendors and over 200 students in attendance
- Encouraged personal growth, service-mindedness and social involvement in 12, first-year students
- Spearheaded a lasting partnership among three, student-led service organizations and two non-profits
- Launched a campaign that raised over $900 for Teach for America and collected over 1,000 books for inner-city children
For additional resume assistance, visit the Career Center's Resumes page or schedule an appointment.
Interview Questions
Be prepared to answer common leadership interview questions including:
- Describe a time when you helped a group capitalize on everyones’ strengths.
- Tell me about a time when you delegated work to others. How did you decide what to delegate to different individuals?
- Tell me about the most successful group or team experience you have had you led. What made it successful, and how have you worked to replicate the experience?
- Tell me about a time when you worked with a group on establishing a plan to reach a goal.
- How do you motivate team members to do something they decide they do not want to do?