leadership workshop for up cmc student leaders

UP CMC Leadership Workshop

Ruben Canlas Jr.April 28, 2012

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Games

• Gifts

• The power of “and...”

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Agenda

• The leader within me

• Working with others

• Leadership and change

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Part 1. The Leader within Me

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What kind of skills, character traits should a leader/manager have?

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The Marshmallow Testhttp://youtu.be/6EjJsPylEOY

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Emotional Intelligence

• Walter Mischel, Daniel Goleman

• Mastery of emotions is as important as intelligence

• Importance of EI or EQ

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Those who grabbed...

• Suffered low self-esteem

• Stubborn, prone to envy, easily frustrated

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• Better adjusted

• More dependable

• Scored higher on tests

Those who waited...

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IQ is not everything

• EQ is better predictor of success than IQ

http://www.dingoes.org.uk

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Most wanted skills:

Learn on the job Listen & talk well

Adaptability Personal management

Motivation, confidence

Teamwork skillsLeadership potential

Goleman, 1999

Conflict resolution

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• Leadership starts from self-awareness

Self-Awareness

Self-Leadership

Empathy

Relationship Management

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Self-awareness Activity

• What do I like about myself?

• What do people tell me are my gifts and talents?

• What achievements am I proud of?

• What do I want to improve about myself?

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Enneagram

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Part 2. Working with Others

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Self-Awareness & Self-Mastery

http://www.postgazette.com/healthscience/20010730antshealth2p2.asp

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How do ants (and humans) collaborate?

http://www.cs.uml.edu

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How would you define good team work?

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Games

• Group artwork

• Synchro clap

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The T-Shaped Individual

Detail-oriented: executing

Technical skills,

knowhow

Macro perspective: sensing/visioning

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Part 3. Leadership and Change

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Food for thought

“If you continue to think as you have always thought, you will continue to get what you have always gotten.”

-- Marilyn Ferguson, The Aquarian Conspiracy

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Aravind Eye Hospital

• With innovative business sense, an eye clinic hurdles major obstacles to set up a successful operation.

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What lessons can we learn from Aravind and

Barefoot College?

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Community

Society

ME

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ENDINGS NEUTRAL NEW BEGINNINGS

DenialAngerBargainingDepressionAcceptance

Rules are not clearWhat do we do?What’s not allowed?

Acceptance: something has endedExcitement at future

3 phases of change

-- William Bridges

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Kotter & Cohen, The Heart of Change

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Self-awareness Activity

• You are 85 years old and people have gathered to celebrate your life.

• What are they saying about your life? Your legacy and achievements?

• Who are these people around you?

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Leadership is about doing the right

thing and making hard decisions based

on evidence.

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But you won’t always have complete

and right evidence.

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The trick is to develop the ability to

make decisions, to act, to tolerate

failure and different ideas, and to learn

continuously.

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• Get the slides: http://slideshare.net/rubencanlas

• Follow me on twitter.com/cryptonomikon

• rcanlas@alumni.cmu.edu

• http://rubencanlas.com

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