Student Life—Foundational Leadership Program

A Guide Through the Bethel Leadership Experience

Establishing your Leadership Experience From the Beginning to the End

The Foundational Leadership Program

The Foundational Leadership Program (FLP) is designed to define and refine your God-given gifts. Don’t know if you’re a leader? Haven’t a clue how to be one? The Foundational Leadership Program will provide information on numerous facets of leadership, a self-assessment to help you identify your personal strengths, and a mentoring relationship with an upperclass student leader. The FLP is a fundamental program vital to a student’s leadership experience at Bethel. To complete the program, students must attend nine of 12 seminars offered throughout the fall and spring, take a self-assessment exam, and meet with a mentor six times. A certificate of achievement is awarded upon completion of the program.

The objective of this program is to teach students to lead like Jesus did.

Topics include:

A Leader’s Connection with God: Where It All Starts
Developing a Godly Character: Leading Yourself before Leading Others
Leading with Compassion: Meeting Others Where They Are
Communicating a Compelling Vision: Where Leaders Rise to the Top
The Commissioning Strategy: How Jesus Reached the World

Learning about leadership from faculty and administration allows students to establish a foundation for leadership. They can then tap into their own resources, identifying their gifts and preparing for success wherever they’re called to serve.

Students become members of the FLP through an application process in the fall, and the program runs from November until April.