Luis Aldrete

HDF 190: FLITE 2/17/15

Learning Contract Draft

Goal: To identify and utilize my Strengths in an organizational/ interpersonal setting that aligns
with the mission, vision, values and sponsored programs and activities of URIs Center for
Student Leadership Development.

Activity:

Leadership Ambassador

Leadership Ambassador aligns with my mission, vision and values which makes it a great
task for me. My mission is to be a mentor for students either as a FLITE peer leader, Leadership
institute peer leader, or URI 101 mentor. To do so having this experience will provide me with
an interpersonal setting where I can foster relationships with new possible students. So if they do
choose to come to URI they can trust me and come to me with any questions that they have. This
ties to my vision because the skill I will pick up that have to do with mentoring can be learned in
this job. Having learned this new set of skills, it will help me in the future in the following
mentoring positions which is a part of my mission. My values are aligned with helping those in
need and offering my experiences and skills to do so.
I will utilize my Strengths to achieve this task, I will I need strong interpersonal to gain
others interest of possible new students. I will utilized my influential skills, such as Woo and
Communication skills, to help grab the attention of new students. This skill will be able to let me
show them my vision while showing my passion which will reflect how I feel about leadership
courses and center. My relationship building strength to help enrich their experience and trust in
what I am saying. My positivity will show my passion as well as make what I say even more
interesting. My strategic skill from strategy skill set will help me organize the details that need to
be said about the leadership minor and center. Lastly my arranger strength from the executing
skill set, help me be the best version of myself, this drive will demonstrate that I am an active
student leader looking to grow. This will inspire and show new possible students that they can do
they could same and the possibilities to grow are present.

Instructor Signature: ___________________________________________________________

Student Signature: _____________________________________________________________

Goal:
To identify and utilize my Strengths in an organizational/ interpersonal setting
that aligns with the mission, vision, values and sponsored programs and activities of URIs
Center for Student Leadership Development.
Activity:

Leadership Ambassador

Evidence:
Email from Dan Levesque Hi all!
This email is regarding training for the Welcome Days coming up in April. We will be having
training and an informal interview. Attached is Google Doc with meeting times. If you are
interested in working at the Welcome days please sign up under a meeting time. If you have a
problem with these meeting times please contact either Dan or Connor and we can make
accommodations. The primary meeting time is from 2-4 on Wednesday the 11th of March. The
secondary meeting time is from 2-4 on Friday the 13th of March.
11-Apr 9:30-11:30
Analise Mandile
Colby Thomas
Gabrielle Sawyer
Luis Aldrete

11:30-1:30
Julia Penczak
Mikaela Gonzaga
Christian Escobar
Jess Cohen
Laruen DeThomasis

18-Apr 9:30-11:30
Carly Egrie
Ellis Havelock
Colby Thomas
Connor Curtis
Ben Ratier
Ian Lew

11:30-1:30
Julia Penczak
Shannon Oryniak
Christian Escobar
Ian Lew
Ally Fiore
Ellis Havelock

25-Apr 9:30-11:30
Ally Fiore
Ben Ratier
JT Oldham
Shannon Oryniak
Connor Curtis
Analissa Mandile
Carky Egrie

11:30-1:30
Shannon Oryniak
Jess Cohen
Laurne DeThomasis
Adam Reinstein
JT Oldham

Thanks Everyone, Dan and Connor

Annotation:
For my learning contract, I was an ambassador for the Center for Student Leadership
Department at Welcome Day. I worked along with my peers of first-year leadership
ambassadors. As an ambassador I spoke to accepted students who can come and get to check out
the school. They also have the opportunity to place their deposit as well. So there is a great
importance as ambassadors to have a positive impact on the students, so that they will be excited
to attend the school and get active on campus. I was to speak of the benefits of being a part of the
Leadership Center, such as the opportunities available are leadership institute, leadership major/
minor, or even the leadership certificate program. Through the Welcome Day, I was able to
practice my skills as a public speaker and ambassador. I had to encourage the accepted students
to be interested and get involved.
I used several of my strengths inspire accepted students to lead and be a part of the
Center for Student Leadership. As an influential leader, I used my woo and communication
strength to attract the attention of student walking by. These strengths helped me explain the
benefits join URI leadership, and even be the reason that some students attend URI being due to
the leadership opportunities. I also relayed on my positivity strength to aid me in building
relationships with the students and the positivity conveyed my passion. Having the ability to
build a relationship and gain the trust of the students greatly impacted their experience. Using my
strength of strategic, I was able to set up a way to initiate conversation with Colby where I would
approach the students with a captivating hook and discuss some points about the leadership
minor, and Colby would then talk about the leadership institute. My arranger strength helped me
organize the information and try my best to improve by adapting to each conversation.
I used my values in action to help create an enjoyable learning environment for the accepted
students. I did so by using my humor and curiosity to keep a positive energy, and to show that I
was curious about their questions and concerns about the leadership department or of the
information given to them. I used bravery and leadership to approach the students. I used my
other values to create positive environment. I used bravery and leadership value to confront the
students for the first time. I was able to influence and encourage students who were accepted to
be a leader. The accepted students seem generally excited to lead and foster their leadership
identity. I was able to use my appreciation of beauty and excellence to enjoy working with the
students and see their hunger and growth to learn more about leadership in such a limited time.
As an ambassador for the Center of Student Leadership Department, I feel that the
ambassadors inspired many accepted students to become leaders. Being able to foster this growth
at such a critical time for these new accepted students is so rewarding. I was able to exercise my
strengths and work with my peers allowing me to establish my leadership identity. I was truly
being a servant leader by dedicating the time to commit to the development of others to help
inspire enrolled students to lead. It was shocking to also see my development of only being a
student leader for just a year, and seeing the rapid amount of growth. I just want to share my
knowledge with others so that others could be inspired to lead and think big.