With hundreds leadership opportunities on campus taking the time to choose your niche is important. Like any decision making process, you should think about what you want to gain and choose those opportunities that offer those benefits.
Knowing your strengths is key to success and developing an action plan in order to develop and hone these skills is essential to achieving your goals. Ask yourself the following questions:
What am I naturally good at?
What are things that I struggle with?
What type of leader do you want to be?
What are things that I need more experience with?
What can I do to develop, practice, or hone these skills?
Take some time and reflect on these questions. Get feedback from those who know you best and write the answers down. Then create a plan on how you will develop these skills including both long term and short term goals. Make sure that you follow the SMART method (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Time-related) when goal setting.
In addition, there are some very well developed leadership assessment tools that you can try such as Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI) , Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), Strength Quest, and True Colors to name a few.