Creighton University

1. Question and Answer Sessions with Leaders: Throughout the fall semester, program participants will have the opportunity to meet as a group with a number of successful leaders. In each session, successful leaders will offer their insight on some of the most basic questions that surround leadership, such as what is leadership? What does it mean to be a successful leader? and What do I need to know to succeed as a leader?  To complete this activity, program participants will need to attend as many speakers as possible and submit a memo by the end of the fall semester describing how information and impressions from these talks directed their thinking on basic leadership questions.  
2. Leadership Reflection Essay:  Level One participants will be asked to write a 3-4 page essay addressing “What kind of leader do I want to be and why?”  This will be due at the beginning of the spring semester.
3. Self-awareness Project: Program participants will complete a personality inventory called the Predictive Index to measure the degree they exhibit certain personality traits and skills found to be consistent with effective leadership. After completing the personality inventory, each participant will learn how to interpret their results and will converse with a trained expert to discuss what their results may mean for their leadership. This activity will occur early in the spring semester.
4. Leadership Action Plan:  Level One scholars will be assigned to a Level Four scholar who will serve as a leadership mentor.  The purpose of establishing this mentoring relationship is to give the Level One scholars the opportunity to connect with a veteran leadership student who can share advice for succeeding in college and addressing the students’ concerns as they begin their education at Creighton and their work in the Waite Leadership Program.  The Level Four mentor will assist in putting together a “Leadership Action Plan,” which will guide the Level One scholar in their remaining years at Creighton and assist in their leadership development.

Level One Assignment Details (2007 Level One Handout Document)