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 Agenda
8:30-8:45 Icebreaker: Admit it!
8:45-9:00 Session One: Course Overview
9:00-10:00 Session Two: What is Self-Leadership?
10:00-10:15 Break
10:15-11:30 Session Three: Knowing Who You Are
11:30-12:00 Session Four: Change Management
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-1:15 Energizer: What Can You Do With That?
1:15-2:00 Session Five: Knowing What You Do
2:00-2:15 Break
2:15-3:30 Session Six: Motivation for Optimists
3:30-4:15 Session Seven: Using What You Know
4:15-4:30 Workshop Wrap-Up
 Session One:
Course Overview
Learning Objectives
• Define self-leadership and what it means on an
individual level
• Assume responsibility for your results by
understanding who you are, what you want, and
how to reach your goals
• Describe the four pillars of self-leadership
• Use techniques related to adjusting to change,
cultivating optimism, and developing good habits
to build your self-leadership
 Session Two:
What is Self-Leadership?
Defining Self-Leadership (I)

• Self-leadership is about choosing who we

are, what we do, and who we become.
• It doesn’t advocate for a selfish approach.
• It recognizes that things do not always
come to us easily.
• It recognizes that our environment is
created through us making choices.
 Session Two:
What is Self-Leadership?
Defining Self-Leadership (II)

• The world has become a place that

leverages knowledge.
• We have to manage ourselves effectively to
be successful.
• Self-leadership is not about managing
others.
• Self-leadership is about leading yourself.
 Session Two:
What is Self-Leadership?
Defining Self-Leadership (III)

• A supervisor says to you that sales are down

and you need to increase your results by 10%.
• A consultative supervisor would probably ask
you how you could achieve those results.
• The self-leader sees that sales are down and
devises a plan of action.
 Session Two:
What is Self-Leadership?
Pre-Assignment Review

• Identify two to five mentors in your life.

• What are the characteristics that your mentors
demonstrate and that you appreciate?
• Which of these characteristics have you
mastered?
• Which of these characteristics do you admire but
have not yet mastered?
 Session Two:
What is Self-Leadership?
Four Pillars of Self-Leadership
 Session Two:
What is Self-Leadership?
Presentations (I)

Knowing Who You Are

• Setting goals
• Defining values and beliefs
• Meditating
• Working with a coach
 Session Two:
What is Self-Leadership?
Presentations (II)

Knowing What You Do

• Understanding how we support our
decisions
• Working towards the self-leaders we
want to be
 Session Two:
What is Self-Leadership?
Presentations (III)

Knowing What You Need to Learn

• Attending classes
• Reading
• Watching films or videos that support
learning
 Session Two:
What is Self-Leadership?
Presentations (IV)

Using What You Know

• Making a commitment every day to work
towards your goals
• Building an environment that moves you
towards where you want to be
 Session Three:
Knowing Who You Are
Creating a Personal Vision Statement (I)
 Session Three:
Knowing Who You Are
Creating a Personal Vision Statement (II)

Step One: Identify Your Values

• Choose the ten most important items
from the list in the workbook.
• Narrow it down to five and then to three.
 Session Three:
Knowing Who You Are
Creating a Personal Vision Statement (III)

Step Two: Define Your Values

What does success look like?

Example: Being Productive

For me, being productive means feeling good about
what I have accomplished at the end of the day.
 Session Three:
Knowing Who You Are
Creating a Personal Vision Statement (IV)

Step Three: Put It All Together

• Bring all three statements into one
paragraph.
• Re-evaluate and re-work your values and
value statements as necessary.
 Session Three:
Knowing Who You Are
Identifying Dreams and Setting Goals (I)

• What areas of life do you want to set

goals in?
• What dreams (long-term goals) do
you have?
 Session Three:
Knowing Who You Are
Identifying Dreams and Setting Goals (II)

SPIRIT Goal Setting Model

• Specific
• Prizes
• Individual
• Review
• Inspiring
• Time-Bound
 Session Three:
Knowing Who You Are
Identifying Dreams and Setting Goals (III)

Writing Tips: Use Action Verbs

o Add o Count o Label
o Arrange o Demonstrate o List
o Assemble o Describe o Plan
o Build o Distribute o Rewrite
o Carry o Draft o Select
o Choose o Explain o Supervise
o Collect o Identify o Train
o Compute o Initiate o Transform
 Session Three:
Knowing Who You Are
Identifying Dreams and Setting Goals (IV)

Watch out for vague phrases like:

• Be familiar with
• Know how to
• Understand
 Session Three:
Knowing Who You Are
Setting Ourselves Up For Success (I)

• Self-leaders are very serious about

being effective.
• They know their goals and they
don’t let them slip.
• Sometimes, it helps to have an
accountability partner.
 Session Three:
Knowing Who You Are
Setting Ourselves Up For Success (II)

• If we look at the success of healthy

eating and diet programs, a large part of
reinforcement comes from the way in
which the programs are designed.
• Have a look at your goals.
• Which ones could you use help with?
 Session Four:
Change Management
Control and Change
 Session Five:
Knowing What You Do
Your Behavior (I)

• When you make a series of decisions about

what you intend to do, and you start doing
them, your behavior is in line with and
supporting your intention.
• If you say you will do something and then
allow yourself to be distracted, or you lose
the commitment to a particular goal, then
your behavior is not supporting your stated
intention.
 Session Five:
Knowing What You Do
Your Behavior (II)

• Negative cues are things that distract or stop

you from doing the things you want to be
doing.
• Positive cues are things that influence you to
do things that meet your goals.
 Session Five:
Knowing What You Do
Your Behavior (III)

Discussion Questions
• What good habits do you have with using
schedules and task reminders?
• What specifically could you do to improve
your attention to tasks?
• List any negative cues at work and at home
that are reinforcing behaviors you don’t want.
 Session Five:
Knowing What You Do
Your Behavior (IV)

Discussion Questions ctd.

• What specifically can you do to eliminate or
reduce negative cues at home and work?
• List positive cues at work and at home that are
encouraging the behaviors you want.
• What can you do to increase positive cues?
• Do you need help for this? Who can you enlist
for help?
 Session Five:
Knowing What You Do
Lifelong Learning (I)

• Lifelong learning means that we recognize

and appreciate that learning does not stop
when we leave school.
• Lifelong learning is part of self-leadership.
• Employers demonstrate their own
appreciation for lifelong learning when they
write up a job posting that includes
equivalencies.
 Session Five:
Knowing What You Do
Lifelong Learning (II)

• If you commit to lifelong learning, you will

keep your finger on the pulse of things that
are changing and developing in your
environment and around the world.
• Your value and your understanding of the
world increases as you learn about all kinds of
subjects.
 Session Five:
Knowing What You Do
Lifelong Learning (III)

• Malcolm Gladwell describes how people

become successful at what they do through
the value of practice.
• He proposes the theory that it takes about
10,000 hours of practice to master something.
• Success and mastery do not come easily!
 Session Five:
Knowing What You Do
Lifelong Learning (IV)

• Self-leadership does not mean that you can

create absolutely anything for yourself.
• We do have the ability to choose our behavior
and to lead ourselves.
 Session Five:
Knowing What You Do
Lifelong Learning (V)

Learning Plans
• Very specific document
• Can be incorporated/displayed in a number of
ways
• Should be meaningful to you, looked at
regularly, and flexible
 Session Five:
Knowing What You Do
Making Connections

• I am committed to the following in order to meet

my learning goals
• The barriers for me achieving these learning goals
include
• I will take the following action(s) to reduce or
eliminate those barriers
• Additional thoughts on my learning and
development goals
 Session Six:
Motivation for Optimists
Motivation from Within (I)

• What motivated Walt Disney to create

cartoons and capture them on film?
• What motivated Mohammed Ali to
become a world champion boxer?
• What motivated Stephen King to be an
internationally renowned writer?
 Session Six:
Motivation for Optimists
Motivation from Within (II)

• The things that motivate us include the

rewards we get.
• This doesn’t mean that self-leadership
means being self-serving.
• There are things that we do where the
act of doing is its own reward.
 Session Six:
Motivation for Optimists
Motivation from Within (III)

• Other times, there are more tangible

rewards.
• A reward can be simple, like time to read
a book or having lunch with a mentor.
• Other times, more sophisticated rewards
are needed.
 Session Six:
Motivation for Optimists
Motivation from Within (IV)

• Are you able to incorporate enough activities

that you enjoy in your work?
• Is there a space at work where you can work
comfortably and effectively?
• Do you spend more time thinking about the
parts of your job that you do like rather than
the parts that you don’t enjoy?
• Do you point your thinking toward pleasantries
of your job, rather than things that are
unpleasant?
 Session Six:
Motivation for Optimists
Creating a Motivational Climate

• Competence
• Self-direction
• Purpose
• Building rewards into what you do
 Session Six:
Motivation for Optimists
The Value of Optimism (I)

• Optimism and pessimism are attitudes which

affect the way we see the world and what is
happening around us.
• Optimists see success as the result of their
own hard work.
• A pessimist views success as being the result
of good luck or fate.
 Session Six:
Motivation for Optimists
The Value of Optimism (II)

• Optimists see something like the loss of a

job as a short term problem or the result
of a lack of work in their field.
• A pessimist sees a job loss as someone
else’s doing and/or as a huge barrier.
 Session Six:
Motivation for Optimists
The Value of Optimism (III)

• Optimists have better overall health, live

longer, and are able to more easily adapt to
even the most harsh or horrible
circumstances.
• Pessimists on the other hand, suffer more
incidents of ill health, including increased
clinical depression and anxiety.
 Session Six:
Motivation for Optimists
The Value of Optimism (IV)

• Pessimists can learn to change attitudes and

be more optimistic.
• Being an optimist is not always an approach
that you can take, however.
• Pessimism also has a certain place, and even
some benefits.
 Session Six:
Motivation for Optimists
ABC’s of Optimism (I)

A – Adversity
• Anything you see as a problem
 Session Six:
Motivation for Optimists
ABC’s of Optimism (II)

B – Beliefs
• Our thoughts on the adversity become belief
• How do we feel about the adversity?
 Session Six:
Motivation for Optimists
ABC’s of Optimism (III)

C – Consequence
• What action takes place because of our belief
 Session Six:
Motivation for Optimists
ABC’s of Optimism (IV)

D – Disputation, Distancing, or Distracting

• Disputation is arguing with yourself
• Distancing means moving away from the
pessimistic attitude
• Distracting helps you break away from the
pessimistic thoughts
 Session Six:
Motivation for Optimists
ABC’s of Optimism (V)

E – Energization
• How disputing your pessimistic thoughts
makes you feel
 Session Six:
Motivation for Optimists
Pessimism vs. Optimism (I)
 Session Six:
Motivation for Optimists
Pessimism vs. Optimism (II)

VET Process
• Validating emotions
• Exploring the emotion
• Transforming the emotion
 Session Six:
Motivation for Optimists
Adversities

A B C D E
Adversity Belief or Consequence Distance, Energization
Feeling Debate, Distract
 Session Seven:
Using What You Know
Our Physical Self (I)

• Our physical health is heavily influenced

by our emotional health.
• Regular exercise, a healthy diet, good
sleep hygiene, and managing stress all
have positive effects on our physical
health.
 Session Seven:
Using What You Know
Our Physical Self (II)

Discussion Questions
• Do you get thirty minutes of exercise a day? Is it
intense enough to increase your heart rate?
• How many hours of connected sleep do you get
each night?
• Do you nap during the day?
• Is your bedroom set up so that it helps you sleep?
 Session Seven:
Using What You Know
Our Physical Self (III)
Discussion Questions ctd.
• Do you eat three meals per day?
• Do you drink enough water?
• Are you limiting salt, caffeine, fats, and sodas to
reasonable levels?
• What can you start doing today to improve your
physical health?
• Do you know how to work through worry or
stressors to reduce the effects they have on you?
 Session Seven:
Using What You Know
Emotional Intelligence (I)

Emotional intelligence is our ability to:

• Accurately identify emotions in ourselves and
others
• Understand and manage emotions
• Effectively communicate emotional feelings
 Session Seven:
Using What You Know
Emotional Intelligence (II)

• Most social scientists agree that there are

seven emotional expressions that are basic to
every culture.
• Our face often displays more than one
emotion at a time.
• We can teach people to recognize visible and
hidden emotions by carefully reading what is
shown on someone’s face.
 Session Seven:
Using What You Know
Emotional Intelligence (III)

The Seven Emotions

• Sadness
• Anger
• Fear
• Happiness
• Surprise
• Contempt
• Disgust
 Session Seven:
Using What You Know
Emotional Intelligence (IV)

What Do Emotions Tell Us?

Emotion What It Tells Us
Sadness Lost something of value
Anger Way is blocked or get out of my way
Fear Possible threat; be prepared
Happiness Gained something of value; the way is safe
Surprise Something unexpected happened
Contempt Not worthy of care, hardening of feelings
Disgust Rules are violated
 Session Seven:
Using What You Know
Emotional Intelligence (V)

Applying Emotional Intelligence

• Emotional expressions don’t tell us the cause
that prompts the response.
• Emotions in themselves are neither positive
nor negative.
• It is what we do with the emotion that
creates the outcome.