Res Life

Want to leverage your training budget and create synergies too?

All of our student experiences can be enjoyed separately, but they can become an integrated set of experiences, too. For example, take a look at this:

Residence Life Development Proposal

Goals

 

  1. Build relationships and teamwork among resident advisors and residence life staff.
  2. Build relationships and inclusion among students in residential halls.
  3. Reduce roommate tension and complaints from non-communication.

 

Approach

 

  1. Deliver Exploring Teamwork Essentials to all resident advisors / residence life staff. 
  2. Resident advisors deliver My View exercise to their students, placing roommates in the same group for the student-empowered discussion segment.
  3. Roommates complete the Living Together exercise.

 

Program break-down and time duration

 

Program

Student activity

Duration

Per student cost*

 

Exploring Teamwork Essentials

 

 
  1. Read booklet
  2. Discuss book
  3. Watch ONE film
  4. Bonding / skill building exercise

 

  1. 40 - 60 minutes
  2. 15 - 30 minutes
  3. 45 minutes
  4. 30+ minutes

 

Total  = 130 - 165 minutes 

$6.95

 

My View

 
  1. Read exercise introduction
  2. Watch ONE film
  3. Bonding / skill building exercise

 

  1. 5 - 15 minutes
  2. 45 minutes
  3. 30+ minutes

 

Total  = 80 - 90 minutes

$ .95

 

Living Together

 

 

Students share likes /dislikes and

begin setting expectations

 

10+ minutes

No Charge

*Assumes college staff facilitates Exploring Teamwork Essentials program and resident advisors facilitate My View exercise. One-time cost would include $39.95 Facilitator Kits for facilitators. Experience demonstrates student desire to continue the bonding / skill building segment after the formal event is completed. For this reason and to enable full flexibility with resident advisor preparation for and scheduling of My View, it is suggested that each advisor be provided Kit.

 

Time Investment and Timing

 

Ideally, roommates will complete the Living Together exercise early in their first semester. Completing the My View exercise prior will create bonds to enable a productive, if not relatively easy, conversation on roommate expectations. Therefore, Exploring Teamwork Essentials would become a component to late-summer resident advisor training. Through the experience, they become trained to deliver My View with their students. You might consider sharing Living Together to roommates over the summer for them to develop responses before they arrive.

 

Please note: Not counting student prep time (reading), Exploring Teamwork Essentials can easily be completed in a two-hour facilitated session and My View in 75 minutes.

 

-- Prices as quoted are valid through 2011-2 academic year and can change without prior notification. --

 

Questions: Contact Scott Boone, Positive Diversity, at 248-462-1807 or scott@positivediversity.com