The Widener Athletic Leadership Initiative (WALI) was founded on the principle that collegiate athletics is a breeding ground for aspiring leaders. We believe the student athlete experience at Widener University has the power to create influential leaders who will implement tangible management skills in their respective communities, careers, and personal lives in profoundly positive ways.
WALI’s curriculum is centered on helping our student-athletes hone their leadership skills as both a teammate and a team leader during their years competing for the Pride. Student-athletes move through the program in class-affiliated levels, and the foundational programming for each level is delivered through interactive sessions that maximize athlete-athlete engagement and personal discovery. We will provide opportunities for experiential learning, mentoring, and workshops with guest speakers to augment the curriculum.
Widener Athletic Leadership Initiative’s goals are to:
- Increase our student-athlete’s personal understanding of their leadership style and create positive environments to develop leadership skills.
- Create a personal leadership philosophy and practical tools they can bring back to their respective sports programs.
- Interact and connect with current campus leadership and Widener University alumni who have real-world leadership experience.
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Widener Athletic Leadership Initiative will assist students in the following areas:
- Increase content knowledge within the area of leadership development.
- Exposure to leadership development training to enhance personal leadership skills.
- Structured reflection opportunities for student-athletes to assess their leadership ideas and experiences with peers.
- Provide experiences outside of the Widener University community to enhance leadership learning and adaptation
- Structured opportunities, both verbal and written, for student to assess their own leadership experiences and to determine what leadership means to them on a personal level.
- Construct leadership-development experiences students can share within a community of students, who can teach and learn from one another while gaining greater appreciation of diverse perspectives and approaches to leadership.
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