Keep Your Eye on Your Beach Umbrella: The Importance of Your Professional & Personal Vision SD Counselor Leadership Conference February 14, 2017 Suzanne Roy, Ed.D. Leadership Consultant, Adjunct Faculty PLNU
Beach Umbrella? Boogie-Boarding? Vision?
Session Objectives Share Symbolism of Umbrella Explore Thoughts/Components - Vision Connection to Leadership Reflect On Your Professional/Personal Vision Complete Exercise to Fine Tune Your Vision Engage in Meaning-Making Conversations
The Role of the Beach Umbrella Your Home Base What You Believe What You Treasure What Are Your Non-Negotiables Where You re Headed Your Sense of a Brighter Future Your Vision
Thoughts on Vision Need to Know Your True Nature and Gifts Use Them to Develop a Vision of Great Things You Want to Accomplish Discover and Use Your Voice Based on the work of Stephen Covey
More Thoughts from Stephen Covey Vision is Seeing with the Mind s Eye what is Possible in People, in Projects, in Causes and in Enterprises Vision Results when Our Mind Joins Need with Possibility Vision is Applied Imagination
Final Thoughts from Stephen Covey vision, is the Beginning of the Process of Reinventing Yourself or an Organization Reinventing Itself Represents Desire, Dreams, Hopes, Goals and Plans (page 70)
Thoughts from John C. Maxwell I Believe Every Person Carries the Seed of Success. The Ability to Find Another s Seed of Success Takes Commitment, Diligence, and a Genuine Desire to Focus on Others.
Thoughts from John Maxwell You Have to Look at Their Gifts, Temperament, Passions, Successes, Joys, and Opportunities. And Once You Find that Seed, You Need to Fertilize it with Encouragement and Water it with Opportunity. Maxwell, J. (2003). Leadership promises for every day.
Leadership Leaders bring people together, creating a shared atmosphere where people understand that they have a shared fate and that they should treat others as they would like to be treated. Leading by example is how you provide the evidence that you re personally committed. It s how you make your values tangible. (Kouzes & Posner)
Leadership - More Thoughts When visions are shared, they attract more people, sustain higher levels of motivation, and withstand more challenges than those that are singular. Kouzes & Posner Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. Warren Bennis
Lead with Humility: 12 Leadership Lessons from Pope Francis Lead with Humility Smell Like Your Flock Who Am I to Judge? Make Inclusion a Top Priority Krames, Jeffrey (2015)
Lead with Humility Humility Empowers Leaders Like no Other Quality Person can never be Too Humble People can Learn to be Humble The Most Humble Focus on Service
Smell Like Your Flock Immerse yourself deeply and in a meaningful way
Who Am I to Judge? Don t Judge - Assess - Listening, in communication, is an openness of heart, which makes possible that closeness without genuine spiritual encounter cannot occur. Listening helps us to find the right gesture and word, which shows that we are more than simple bystanders. Only through such respectful and compassionate listening can we enter on the paths of true growth (p 25-26)
Make Inclusion a Top Priority Importance of dialogue- Dialogue entails a warm reception and not a preemptive condemnation. To dialogue, one must know how to lower the defenses, to open the doors of one s home and to offer warmth. (p 43-44) Empower Those You Serve Include Others in Decision Making
Poetry - Informs My Vision To Be of Use by Marge Piercy I Care and I m Willing to Serve by Marian Wright Edelman
Take a Few Minutes to Jot Down the Points that Inform Your Vision Share with a Thought Partner
Vision Clarifying Activity Directed Activity
Review Your Vision Return to your Initial Vision Thoughts Note How Your Clarifying Activity Changes/Enhances It Share Again with Your Thought Partner Based on Their Feedback -Make Any Revisions/Enhancements
Session Objectives Share Symbolism of Umbrella Explore Thoughts/Components - Vision Connection to Leadership Reflect On Your Professional/Personal Vision Complete Exercise to Fine Tune Your Vision Engage in Meaning-Making Conversations
The Role of Your Beach Umbrella Your Home Base What You Believe What You Treasure What Are Your Non-Negotiables Where You re Headed Your Sense of a Brighter Future Your Vision
What is YOUR VISION? Your Personal One Your Professional One
Recommended Resources Covey, S. (2004). The 8th Habit: from Effectiveness to Greatness. New York, NY: Free Press. Intrator, S., & Scribner, M. Editors (2003). Teaching with fire: Poetry that sustains the courage to teach. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. Intrator, S., & Scribner, M. Editors (2007). Leading from within: Poetry that sustains the courage to lead. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. Intrator, S., & Scribner, M. Editors (2014). Teaching with heart: Poetry that speaks to the courage to teach. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. Maxwell, J. (2003). Leadership promises for every day. Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson. Palmer, Parker J. (2007). The courage to teach. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. Kouzes, James & Barry Posner (2012). The Leadership Challenge, (5th Edition). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass Publishers Reynolds, P. (2003). the dot. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press.
Keep Your Eye on Your Beach Umbrella: The Importance of Professional & Personal Vision Thank You!! Suzanne Roy, Ed.D. drsuz@san.rr.com