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Im so glad weve had this time together
Wendy AbshireLeadership Academy 2004
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Pick Up Lines Used by LA Participants

• Wanna Form, Storm, Norm, and Perform?
• Whats your S.C.O.R.E?
• Strategy, Clear roles, Open communication, Rapid
  response, and Effective leadership
• What I hear you saying is (but can only use
  once)
• You know how much I appreciate what you do
• How do you want to handle this?
• What do you need from me to assure your success?
• Hey baby, nice Work Breakdown Structure!
• To a Red, Im counting on you to bring this home!
• To a Green, Can you show me your documentation?
• To a Blue, Was it good for you?

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Outline

• Pop culture reflections on leadership
• What did we learn?
• Parting thoughts

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Pop Culture 1Leadership NOT!
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Pop Culture 2Could this be us now?
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Pop Culture 3 Employee Performance or
Difficult Conversations?
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Pop Culture 4Effective Business Writing and ?
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A Pop Culture Tribute to Bill Hubiak

• Leadership in action from the
• 1981 movie, Stripes.

I'm gonna' volunteer my leadership to this
platoon. An army without leaders is like a foot
without a big toe.
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2. What Did We Learn?
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Top 10 List
10. AND your response to each item in the list
is Yes! and
9. Coaches, theyre not just for sports anymore!
8. Powerful Questions, theyre not just for
professionals anymore!
7. Forget minding your Ps and Qs, use the 4 Ps
instead (Purpose, Picture, Plan, and Part)
6. Gremlins so much more than just a 1980s
movie!
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Top 10 List (continued)
5. Important code talk like Stop boundary
probing by placing trees.
4. Eggs are messy, but worth messing around with!
3. To Do a new dance (make a little love, get
down tonight!)
2. Assumptions Check them please.
1. The primary colors are really Red, Blue, and
Green!
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Summarizing What We Learned

• Your moment to reflect
• Shared experience over last 6-months
• Exposed to a wealth of information
• Learned a great deal about ourselves AND each
  other

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3. Parting Thoughts
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Six Leadership Gems
1. It is better to light one candle than curse
the darkness. Chinese
proverb
2. How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a
single moment before starting to improve the
world. Anne Frank
3. You must be the change you wish to see in the
world. Mohandas Gandhi
4. Life is what we make it always has been,
always will be. Grandma Moses
5. Every great journey begins with a single step.
Lao-tzu
6. Our deepest fear is not that we are
inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are
powerful beyond measure.
Nelson Mandela
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Lean On Me

• Lyrics by Al Green
• Some times in our lives, we all have pain, we all
  have sorrow. But, if we are wise, we know that
  there's always tomorrow.
• Lean on me, when your not strong, and I'll be
  your friend, I'll help you carry on. For it won't
  be long, 'till I'm gonna need somebody to lean
  on.
• Please, swallow your pride, if I have faith, you
  need to borrow. For no one can fill those of your
  needs, that you won't let show. You just call on
  me, brother when you need a hand, We all need
  somebody to lean on. I just might have a problem
  that you'll understand, we all need somebody to
  lean on.
• You just call on me, brother when you need a
  hand, we all need somebody to lean on. I just
  might have a problem that you'll understand, we
  all need somebody to lean on.
• If, there is a load, you have to bear, that you
  can't carry, I'm right up the road, I'll share
  your load, if you just call me. Call me!

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