School is starting back soon and one way that you can improve your leadership and communication skills is to choose to become an orientation leader. Participating in leadership opportunities while you are in college not only helps you attain the capabilities to become a better student, but it also strengthens your ability to become successful in the world outside of college once you complete your education. Becoming a student leader demonstrates your public speaking and communication skills that are necessary to become an accomplished student. By becoming an orientation leader, you show the incoming students how receiving a college education is both empowering and worthwhile.
Teaching students the importance of communicating in groups is critical for their success during the first year of school, since they are becoming acquainted with college studies and student life for the first time. The orientation leader sets a positive example for students to become active participants in classroom discussions and to become group leaders outside of class. Students befriend other classmates in orientation that they would not ordinarily meet during their class schedules. This allows them to make other contacts that will help them succeed, and the role of the orientation leaders is to encourage these connections. The orientation leaders share their college experiences to set an example for students as they make new friends and embark on their college journeys and new college experiences of their own. The activities orientation leaders use during orientation week show students how to be creative in both the thought that goes into their school work and to complete group work assigned by the professor. Orientation leaders take the first step in making a difference in the future student’s success and involvement in student life.
Being an influential student leader encourages students to participate in other student activities such as sorority and fraternity rush, SGA, band, multicultural and diversity events, and sports. Orientation leaders teach students that they should do their part and strive to become actively involved in leadership and social events in college to help the college become more appealing to new students. College participation is an active process that requires students to both complete their studies and prove the college’s rank among other schools regarding academics as well as participation in extra-curricular activities. Orientation leaders receive the opportunity to display the outstanding traits to the faculty and staff that exemplifies their abilities to complete the rigorous college school work and demonstrate their extra-curricular qualifications that made them successful in school.