- Ben Horvath ’13
- Hometown: North Canton, Ohio
- Major: Criminal justice
When I toured the Trumbull County Prison, I got to visit the psych ward and the women’s ward as well as see some of the inmates play basketball.
Learning Objectives
Leadership
- Identify and Describe the relationship between leader character and competence with an understanding of how core values affect leadership
- Identify and Describe the four basic phases of team building
- Illustrate significant traits and behaviors of historical leaders
- Understand and explain the situational, transformational, and adaptive leadership theories
- Describe methods of assessing leadership styles
- Understand and be able to effectively use counseling for individual and personal feedback and improvement
- Conduct self evaluation of personal leader actions while in positions of authority / leadership
- Effectively applying leadership principles as upperclassmen Application of leadership principles learned since a Freshman)
- Describe and be able to use leading procedures
- Develop and use an effective format useful for giving guidance and instructions to an organization or team
Personal Development
- Develop short-term and long-term goals and a personal plan to achieve those goals
- Explain how to set goals and manage time at the team level
- Develop team mission statement and goals
- Define elements of time and stress management
- Understand how to create a personal developmental plan and prepare one for yourself
- Understand and identify the types and elements of interpersonal communication
- Develop and present professional presentations for information and to obtain decisions
- Understand and implement effective writing techniques in order to communicate in written form
- Identify risks in an operational environment and establishing procedures to mitigate the risk
- Effectively apply leadership skills to Teams and Groups
Professionalism
- Define what values are and identify values used by yourself and others
- Explain how the implementation of a consideration of others (CO2) program can positively influence the operations of an organization
- Analyze how personal and organizational values influence individuals in leadership positions
- Understand and apply professional ethics in decision making
- Understanding the leaders role in organizational rules operations
- Demonstrate a working knowledge of Equal Opportunity and Prevention of Sexual Harassment (POSH) programs positively impact organizational operations
- Understand and explain how personal conduct impacts your leadership ability
- Explain how Cultural Awareness can impact a unit and mission
- Apply cultural understanding to decision a making and leader
- Create a developmental plan for the next 12 months which outlines you goals and then update that plan as time progresses to see how you are meeting your goals
- Understand the typical advancement plan for your profession and how to manage your career to meet advancement requirements
Problem Solving
- Using a decision making model to ID and solve problems
- Apply a decision making model during organizational meeting designed to plan for future operations and activities
- Describe and apply problem solving models to develop suitable and acceptable solutions to given problem sets
