{"410231":{"#nid":"410231","#data":{"type":"news","title":"One-on-One Leadership Coaching Enables Undergraduate Students to Reach Their Full Leadership Potential","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAnthony Remensnyder claims he\u0026rsquo;s never one to exaggerate and simply tells things as they are, but ask him about Leading Edge and he\u0026rsquo;ll say that it changed his life.\u0026nbsp; A leadership development program offered by the Office of Leadership Education and Development (LEAD), Leading Edge is a one-on-one leadership coaching program that pairs undergraduate students with trained leadership development coaches to explore and improve their leadership skills.\u0026nbsp; Though it is only a semester long, Leading Edge can have a big impact on students\u0026rsquo; college career and beyond, as was the case with Anthony.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAnthony is a third-year Business Administration student, with involvement in a host of different campus activities and organizations. As his responsibilities in school and in his personal life steadily grew, Anthony found himself yearning for a way in which he could further develop his leadership skillsets and his approach to leading.\u0026nbsp; The way he puts it is, \u0026ldquo;The problem that arose is that I started to approach these opportunities to lead others the same way I had approached it all my life \u0026ndash; I had not changed or grown at all.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp; Around this same time, a professor had recommended him for Leading Edge, to which he duly applied and was accepted for the following semester.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAt the beginning of the 2015 spring semester, Anthony was paired with Leading Edge coach (and health educator at Stamps Health Center) Michelle Segall.\u0026nbsp; Throughout the semester, Anthony and Michelle met and discussed how Anthony could become a stronger leader by identifying the areas Anthony sought to improve and then brainstorming \u0026ldquo;leadership experiments\u0026rdquo; to work on these areas within his existing leadership positions as a soccer coach, a soccer referee, and a friend.\u0026nbsp; One tool that has proven to be extremely useful is a journal that Anthony spends 30 minutes a week recording three specific leadership experiences from that week; this practice of self-reflection has helped him to better respond to different situations he confronts throughout his life.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOverall, this process of self assessment, determination of action steps, experimentation and critical reflection with his coach has allowed Anthony to reflect on his past leadership experiences and gain a greater awareness of his behavior. \u0026nbsp;Through the leadership coaching process, Anthony found that an essential part of becoming a more effective leader was better understanding himself, saying \u0026ldquo;Not only could [Michelle] help me dissect situations and see what I could improve on for the better, but she also helped me better understand myself and how I emotionally respond to different situations.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; As Anthony\u0026rsquo;s coach, Michelle also noticed this transformation, saying, \u0026ldquo;Anthony recognized even more of his strengths, including his authenticity, his ability to build rapport and develop relationships with others, and his ability to serve as an authority.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn building this self-awareness in Anthony and other Georgia Tech students, Leading Edge aims to enable students to lead with confidence and purpose.\u0026nbsp; As they continue their journey at Tech and beyond, we look forward to the exceptional leadership they will provide and the role Leading Edge takes in growing them.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELeading Edge is currently accepting \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/leadership.gatech.edu\/content\/leading-edge-one-one-coaching-application\u0022\u003Eapplications\u003C\/a\u003E for the 2016 Spring Semester. Deadline to apply is Wednesday, November 18\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E at 11:59pm.\u003C\/strong\u003E Request for a deadline extension until Friday, November 20th - email \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:leadingedge@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eleadingedge@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor more information visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/leadership.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eleadership.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Ask Anthony Remensynder, a third-year Business Administration student, about the coaching experience and he\u2019ll say that it changed his life."}],"uid":"28136","created_gmt":"2015-06-03 22:09:14","changed_gmt":"2016-11-22 20:04:41","author":"Mindy Kao","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-11-16T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2015-11-16T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"441901":{"id":"441901","type":"image","title":"Anthony and Michelle","body":null,"created":"1449256190","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 19:09:50","changed":"1475895182","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:53:02","alt":"Anthony and Michelle","file":{"fid":"203099","name":"anthony_and_michelle.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/anthony_and_michelle_0.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/anthony_and_michelle_0.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":473638,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/anthony_and_michelle_0.jpeg?itok=I_OiqN9Z"}}},"media_ids":["441901"],"groups":[{"id":"269161","name":"Leadership Education and Development"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"77871","name":"Leading Edge"},{"id":"108201","name":"one-on-one leadership coaching"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMindy Kao\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:mkao6@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emkao6@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}