OL Training: Choose Your Attitude

With selections behind us, SOS has entered into a very exciting time, Spring Training. The first training session just introduced our new Orientation Leaders to each other as well as introduced them to our training program. One of the elements of our training program is the Four FISH Principles which we will be explaining in more detail over the coming weeks. The first of these FISH principles is Choose Your Attitude. To illustrate how this principle is essential to the success of an Orientation Leader, we had the new Leaders lead each other around campus on a mock tour. During this tour, other members of the group had an assigned situation that would challenge the tour leaders’ attitudes as well as creating some fun in training. This showed them the importance of choosing our attitudes in an SOS day and how their attitudes can affect their groups. The other big parts of training involve testing our leaders on their knowledge of Auburn for their tours and for leading their small group times during the SOS day. For the latter, we divide them in a small group and rotate them between SOS Coordinators every week so that they can see the information presented in four different styles. Our hope in this is that they will see there isn’t one way to do a small group session and that they will incorporate bits and pieces of all of ours as well as bits of their personality in order to create their own unique style. Next week, Clair will be here to write about her FISH principle, Play.