{"id":1064,"date":"2015-10-27T16:00:40","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T20:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/?p=1064"},"modified":"2015-10-26T22:54:19","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T02:54:19","slug":"leadership-development-preparing-todays-students-for-occupational-therapys-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/2015\/10\/27\/leadership-development-preparing-todays-students-for-occupational-therapys-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Leadership Development: Preparing Today&#8217;s Students for Occupational Therapy&#8217;s Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eight of our current graduate students participated in the Leadership Development Workshop, sponsored by the Pennsylvania Occupational Therapy Association (POTA). \u00a0The workshop was held on Oct. 22, 2015 in Scranton, PA &#8211; the day prior to POTA&#8217;s annual conference. \u00a0Students completed a strengths finder profile and discussed strategies to enhance their leadership skills. \u00a0The workshop culminated with students being paired with a POTA board member for mentoring over the next 12 months in various leadership activities such as advocacy, conference planning, political action committees, and more.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1065\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1065\" style=\"width: 497px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/files\/2015\/10\/FullSizeRender-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1065\" src=\"http:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/files\/2015\/10\/FullSizeRender-2-896x1024.jpg\" alt=\"8 graduate students at the leadership workshop\" width=\"497\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/files\/2015\/10\/FullSizeRender-2-896x1024.jpg 896w, https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/files\/2015\/10\/FullSizeRender-2-263x300.jpg 263w, https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/files\/2015\/10\/FullSizeRender-2.jpg 1929w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1065\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Front: Victoria Snyder, Marla Peiffer, Colette Hinton.<br \/> Back: Christina Gilley, Heidi Weidemoyer, Erin Horting, Rebecca Patten, and Rebecca Lane<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Comments from students about what they learned:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Leaders don&#8217;t have to be &#8220;natural born&#8221; but should identify strengths and utilize them to engage in leadership activities.<\/li>\n<li>Becoming involved with your state association doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean being an active board member or running for POTA president. \u00a0Just be a member and support the work they are doing on your behalf!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight of our current graduate students participated in the Leadership Development Workshop, sponsored by the Pennsylvania Occupational Therapy Association (POTA). \u00a0The workshop was held on Oct. 22, 2015 in Scranton, PA &#8211; the day prior to POTA&#8217;s annual conference. \u00a0Students &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/2015\/10\/27\/leadership-development-preparing-todays-students-for-occupational-therapys-future\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Leadership Development: Preparing Today&#8217;s Students for Occupational Therapy&#8217;s Future<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-accomplishments","category-student-spotlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1064"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1078,"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions\/1078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/ot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}