{"id":1635,"date":"2018-10-30T15:56:55","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T15:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m-span.org\/pave\/?p=1635"},"modified":"2021-06-24T16:00:33","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T16:00:33","slug":"october-2018-team-leader-of-the-month-clayton-riley-jones-wichita-state-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/m-span.org\/pave\/2018\/10\/30\/october-2018-team-leader-of-the-month-clayton-riley-jones-wichita-state-university\/","title":{"rendered":"October 2018 Team Leader of the Month: Clayton \u2018Riley\u2019 Jones, Wichita State University"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PhotoClayton \u2018Riley\u2019 Jones of Wichita State University is our Team Leader of the Month! Riley has served as a Radio Operator in the Air National Guard for the past seven years and is in his final year studying Business Management, with course work for a minor in Sociology already completed. Ciaban Peterson, Riley\u2019s Co-Team Leader, nominated him: \u201cRiley has taken his requirements, recommendations, and leadership to create direction and strategy for this new semester. He has used his past experience as a Peer Advisor to understand what the team needs to succeed as well as followed up with leaders on advising and keeping stakeholders informed.\u201d<\/p>\n

It’s clear in speaking with Riley that his warm, easygoing personality makes it easy for others to open up to him, and this comes in especially handy with his work as a Team Leader. \u201cI feel that nothing quite trumps being approachable and available, having conversations with people face-to-face, and being able to answer questions,\u201d he says. Riley credits Ciaban and Peer Advisor Michael Bearth for setting an excellent example of professionalism and mentorship for him, and describes how, in turn, he\u2019s paid that good will forward to other student veterans.<\/p>\n

What he\u2019s found to be most rewarding as a Team Leader is \u201cthe success stories like a student telling me about getting a job, or having a tough period with a student and then having them come back and say that things are going better for them.\u201d Additionally, he feels that he\u2019s also benefitting from the role because it\u2019s giving him real-world, hands-on management experience. We\u2019re so glad to have you with PAVE, Riley!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clayton \u2018Riley\u2019 Jones of Wichita State University is our Team Leader of the Month! Riley has served as a Radio Operator in the Air National Guard for the past seven … Learn More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1636,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/m-span.org\/pave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/m-span.org\/pave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/m-span.org\/pave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m-span.org\/pave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m-span.org\/pave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/m-span.org\/pave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1637,"href":"https:\/\/m-span.org\/pave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635\/revisions\/1637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m-span.org\/pave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/m-span.org\/pave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m-span.org\/pave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m-span.org\/pave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}