Best Practice Meeting THE MANY FACES OF SUCCESS Dennis Spisak McGrawHill

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Best Practice Meeting THE MANY FACES OF
SUCCESSDennis SpisakMcGraw-Hill
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Best Practice Meeting

• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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CAMBRIA-ROWE BUSINESS COLLEGE

• Gretchen Rummel
• Paul Mastovich
• Dr. William Coward

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Words of Wisdom From Dr. Joe

• Whenever you feel blue, start breathing again.
• You know, health nuts are going to feel stupid
  someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.
• Just think, when you are senile you can hide
   your own Easter eggs.

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Fun Things to DoIn Brians World

• Sometimes I put mosquito netting around my work
  area and play tropical sounds all day.
• I enjoy sitting in a parked car with sun glasses
  on and point a hair dryer at passing cars to see
  if they slow down.
• I love to sing along at the opera.
• When the money comes out of the ATM, I scream, I
  won!, I won!

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GORDON PETERS
For turning the hotel laundry room, in the
basement, into the McGraw-Hill Suite.
PARTY HARDY, GORDON!
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Manny Washington doing yard work.
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Now.lets get serious!
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In 2008,how is success measured?
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DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN..
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All the girls had ugly gym uniforms?  
                                                  
                          
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It took five minutes for the TV to warm up?
                                     
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Nearly everyone's Mom was at home when the kids
got home from school?                          
                                                  
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Nobody owned a purebred dog?
                                                  
                                                  
               
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When a quarter was a decent allowance?  
                                
                     
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Or when you'd reach into a muddy gutter for a
penny?
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Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces?
                                          
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All your male teachers wore neckties and female
teachers had their hair done every day and wore
high heels?                                    
                  
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You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and
gas pumped, without asking, all for free, every
time?   And you didn't pay for air? And, you got
trading stamps to boot?                        
                                                  
                                             
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It was considered a great privilege to be taken
out to dinner at a real restaurant with your
parents?                                       
                              
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They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they
failed. . . and they did?                      
                        
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No one ever asked where the car keys were because
they were always in the car, in the ignition, and
the doors were never locked?
                                             
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Lying on your back in the grass with your friends
and saying things like, "That cloud looks like a
.............."                                 
 
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and playing baseball with no adults to help kids
with the rules of the game?                    
                                                  
            
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In the 50s and 60s.

• Small things made people happy!
• People were judged on who they were versus what
  they owned.

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Paradox of Success in 2008

• Big houses.
• but more broken homes.
• More convenience.
• less time.
• More degrees.
• less common sense.
• More knowledge.
• less judgment.

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Paradox of Success cont.

• Two incomes.
• more divorce.
• More experts.
• more problems.
• Learned to make a living.
• but not a life.
• Added years to our life.
• but not life to our years.

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What is Success to Our Students in 2008?

• I get all my bills in order by using money
  management and decision-making skills.
• I dont struggle living month to month.
• I reached my life time goal of getting my R.N. by
  the time Im 45.
• My child remains in good standing with the
  community and graduates from college.

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What is Success to Our Students?

• When my goals are met and I feel at peace.
• I feel secure about myself so I can help others.
• I have seen my daughter through school and to her
  finding a happy home of her own.
• I have a successful career and family.

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So..What is Success to Our Students?

• Not simply to have a job but to have a PURPOSE.
• You teach to the purpose with your touch.

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Obstacles I Must Overcome

• My fear of failing.
• My lack of money management.
• Self-doubt and my terrible upbringing.
• Self esteem issues are my problem (fat, lazy,
  ugly).
• Fear of saying, what if?
• The fear of not being hired by anyone.

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What My School/Teachers Can Do To Help Me Succeed

• Just be by my side and guide me with their
  advice.
• Be more excited to teach. To seem happy to see
  me succeed.
• Talk to me about opportunities in the workforce.
• Help me keep motivated.
• Encourage me to stay focused.

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The Impact of Your Touch

• Just think of the opportunities YOU have everyday
  to impact someones life.
• Just think of others, in the students life, that
  you have impacted.
• Just think of what would happen to two million
  individuals if there were no career colleges and
  no YOU.

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YOU

• Give without asking for a return.
• Go the extra mile to help someone change their
  life.
• Give of yourself to support another.
• ARE SPECIAL!
• ARE SIGNIFICANT!

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THANK YOU!