Assessment Presented by Chandler Mueller

National Society of Leadership and Success:

Success Networking Teams

 Induction: A Three Step Process

Orientation Leadership Reflection,

and Training and Goal Service,
Development Induction

A prearranged process for all potential inductees; meeting national requirements.

Mission of the Salem State
University NSLS Chapter
To provide national-level resources focused
on leadership development while integrating
campus and community engagement as key
facilitators to equip students with tools to
achieve their individual goals as well as
further their success.
Orientation and Training
A four hour session on how to use the NSLS website,
benefits of becoming a NSLS member, requirements
and expectations of potential inductees, and ways the
Salem State Chapter operates.

Step 1
Leadership and Goal
Development
This step includes the creation of Success Networking
Teams, the construction of individual Specific,
Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Timely
(S.M.A.R.T.) goals with their teams, and attending 3
speaker broadcasts.

Step 2
Reflection, Service,
Induction
Potential inductees will submit reflection updates
regarding SNT meetings and speaker broadcasts,
participate in an organization-wide service project, and
attend NSLS induction in the Spring Semester

Step 3
Assessment Focus

Influences of Success
Networking Teams on
Individual Goal Achievement
Purpose and Methodology
Purpose Assessing Step 2 of the Induction Process
If students are expected to create and participate in Success
Networking Teams as part of the requirements for NSLS, how is that
contributing to their individual goal setting and achievement?

Methodology Focus Group & Reflection Responses

Through guided focus group discussion as well as electronic reflection
responses, I collected qualitative data that centers on the experiences of
NSLS students moving through the induction process as it relates to their
participation in their Success Networking Teams.
 Data Collection
Two Focus Groups
Group A: 5 Students Lasting 45 minutes
Group B: 4 Students Lasting 38 minutes
Guiding focus group questions:
How willing are you to reach out to or encourage other members of you success networking team?
Please explain.
In what ways has working with the success networking teams informed your ability to set goals?
How has meeting with success networking teams impacted your experience with NSLS?
Has the presence of success networking teams impacted leadership development? In what ways?
How has the presence of your success networking team influenced the achievement of your
individual goal?

Electronic Reflection Responses

Submitted by all students moving through the NSLS induction process
Prompts:
Did you succeed in achieving your action steps since the last meeting?
Please state your goal. Make sure your goal is SMART. Specific, Measurable, Achievable,
Rewarding, Timely.
Please list the actions steps you will take to achieve your goals stated above. These are action
steps that will be completed by next meeting.
How have the Society speakers or SNT meetings helped you achieve your goals or changed
your life?
 Results from Electronic Reflections

Used Open Coding to Quantify Personal Responses

-Are students willing to reach out to or encourage other members of their success networking
teams?
-Has working with the success networking teams informed students ability to set goals?
-How has meeting with success networking teams impacted student experience with NSLS?
-Has the presence of success networking teams impacted their goal achievement?

Willingness Informed Ability Impacted Experience Goal Achievement

11%

17% 14% 9%
28% 21%
44% 36%

61% 69% 47%

43%

Positive
Very Willing Significantly Neutral Significantly
With My Friends Somewhat Negative Somewhat
Not Willing Not at All Not at All
 Results from Focus Groups

Through Guided Discussion Using the Following Questions:

How willing are you to reach out to or encourage other members of your success networking team?
Please explain.
In what ways has working with the success networking teams informed your ability to set goals?
How has meeting with success networking teams impacted your experience with NSLS?
Has the presence of success networking teams impacted leadership development? In what ways?
How has the presence of your success networking team influenced the achievement of your
individual goal?
Themes from conversations:
Students felt comfortable reaching out to their SNT groups but not all members of the group seem to be as
engaged as they could have been.
I feel confident to reach out to people I am closer with but am willing to encourage people on my
team I may not know as well.
Seeing and hearing other peoples goals and action plans helped students develop their own.
My group helped me create measurable steps to achieve the goal I created for myself.
SNT groups offered an additional network for overall NSLS support
Help me keep on track with the required things outside of SNTs.
Students did not feel that SNT groups impacted their leadership development but did feel like their
support helped them with S.M.A.R.T goal setting.
SNTs havent really shaped my leadership skills but more my ability to complete my goal.
My group made sure I was setting a goal that stuck to the S.M.A.R.T. model.
Students felt that their SNT groups helped them to develop their goals and create action steps but did not
necessarily attribute its presence to the achievement of their actual goal.
My goal was a goal I set for myself but my group helped make my action steps clear and hold me
accountable of achieving my steps.
My SNT group helped me make more concrete steps toward achieving my goal but I did really help
in me actually completing my goal.
Implications and
Recommendations
Utilizing the S.M.A.R.T. Goal Setting
Model in groups or teams presents an
additional layer of making sure people
are setting realistic goals.

Seeing as engagement with SNT

groups positively influenced the
progress of achieving individual goals
and that students are more likely to
reach out to their friends and those
they are familiar with in their groups, I
would recommend allowing Success
Networking Teams and groups in
similar circumstances to develop
themselves.
Questions?