Thirteen Complete 6th Randolph Community College Student Leadership Academy

Thirteen students graduated from Randolph Community College’s sixth annual Student Leadership Academy on March 19. The students were chosen for the Academy based on a competitive process that considered leadership experience, leadership potential, and a letter of reference from a faculty member.
           
Steve Eblin, CEO of Randolph Hospital, was the keynote speaker at Tuesday’s graduation ceremony held in the R. Alton Cox Learning Resources Center auditorium. Eblin talked to the graduates about his own “Seven Laws of Leadership,” which included hiring the right people and hiring for attitude. “A positive attitude is contagious,” he told the students, “and so is a negative attitude.” He also talked about building trust among your team; creating a vision and building a passion for it; recognizing that people are different and need to be lead and coached differently; making it as easy as possible for people to do their jobs by knocking down barriers; and realizing that when there is a mistake, it is almost always due to a process or the environment and not a person’s abilities.

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