SHPE Houston SHPE 502 and L

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SHPE Houston SHPE 502 and LD Information Share

• September 11, 2002
• Local Meeting

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Overview

• 9/11 Moment
• Chapter Character
• SHPE 502 The National Entity
• Learning Development Breakdown of NLI
  Hispanic Leadership Day
• Effective Coaching
• Program Management
• Diamond Touch
• Motivation!
• How to Thrive in a Changing Economy

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9/11 Moment

• Important to remember what those people perished
  for
• Capitalistic Societies
• A global economy
• Open Mind ness to the Diversity and Inclusion of
  everyone in the World
• As engineers we can take pride in the fact that
  we can directly affect the success of these
  trains of thought.
• Technology and innovation have gotten us and the
  world to were we are today and it will get us to
  where we want to be tomorrow.

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Chapter Character

• Membership from Houston City Area
• Active Representation by Texas Instruments, BP,
  ChevronTexaco, Dannenbaum, Kraft, Schlumberger to
  name a few
• Civil, Electrical, Chemical, Mechanical
  Engineers
• Current Officers
• President Ariel Flores
• Vice-President Jose De La Pena
• Treasurer Josue Villesca
• Secretary Sylvia Cantu Gonzalez
• Outreach Coordinator John Garza
• Public Relations Aby Gonzalez

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SHPE 502 Mission and Vision

• Vision
• SHPE is the leading social-technical organization
  whose primary function is to enhance and achieve
  the potential of Hispanics in engineering, math
  and science
• Mission
• SHPE promotes the development of Hispanics in
  engineering, science and other technical
  professions to achieve educational excellence,
  economic opportunity and social equity

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SHPE 502 Values

• Statement of Values
• We are brought together by
• Heritage,
• Social responsibility
• Desire to improve the equality of all people
  through the use of science and technology
• We value excellence by
• Education
• Professional pursuit
• Leadership
• We obtain excellence through
• Integrity
• Empowerment
• Achievement
• Diversity
• Continuous improvement.

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SHPE 502 Goals

• Improve Programs and Products (4)
• Increase Membership and Membership Satisfaction
  (3)
• Improved Academic Achievement (5)
• Increase Efficiency and Productivity (2)
• Improve Customer Service Satisfaction (the Around
  the Corporate Entity) (7)
• Document, Assess, and Improve Key Processes (1)
• Enhance the SHPE Image (6)

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SHPE 502 Regional Breakdown
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National Relationship Strategy

• SHPE as a whole is a large Building
• National is the foundation of the building and
  the Elevator
• Professional/Student Chapters are the floors
• Each floor is distinctly different and can
  formulate their own agenda as long as it follows
  building policy
• The elevator is the tool that gets you from
  floor to floor, but the stairs are also available
• However, the elevator has its benefits if you
  learn how to use it

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Effective Coaching

• Presenter Vera Cruz

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Coach Definition

• Coaching helps to tap the creative genius that
  all employees have to contribute to the
  organization. - Dr. Lee Smith, Coach Works
  International
• People you are coaching need to know that they do
  matters, but it is your job to helps people go
  beyond themselves or their comfort zone, so that
  they can experience excellence.
• A coach comes with questions, facilitates team
  effort and supports your solutions.

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Coaching Actions

• Align Intentions
• Take the Time to be a coach
• Listen and Speak with Intent

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Coaching Through the Gap
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Top Ten Coaching Skills

• Listen
• Reflect Back and Explore
• Acknowledge
• Ask Questions
• Encourage Learning and Reflection
• Encourage Action
• Support and Challenge
• Share Hunches
• Build an Adult Relationship
• Get out of the Way

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Program Management

• Presenter Dr. Les Lackman - UCLA

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Program Process
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Objectives of Program Planning

• Direct the intent of the project
• Identify actions, risks, and responsibilities
• Guide the ongoing activities
• Prepare for changes
• Provide a baseline for program control
• Reduce uncertainty

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Barriers to Planning

• Reason and excuses for poor or neglected planning
• The future cannot be known
• A good manager is too busy doing to have the
  time
• Nobody follows the plan once made, it is only a
  dust catcher
• Plans have to conform to arbitrary and impossible
  external constraints
• Plans tell other people too much
• Plans become straight jackets when others
  evaluate against them

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Characteristics of Successful Team Efforts

• People building philosophy
• A team effort minimize functional lines
• Superordinate goal more important than any
  individual goal
• Clear requirements but not detailed procedures
• Creativity encouraged freedom to think
• Improvement consciousness
• Leaders gets fair participation from everyone
• Empowerment management passes down authority,
  but demands responsibility
• Ever present quality focus and time driven

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Risk Analysis

• Mathematical model
• Degree of recognition
• Known
• Known unknowns (the past)
• Unknown unknowns (unk-unks)
• Judgment (PUGS)
• Probability
• Urgency
• Growth Potential
• Seriousness (impact)
• Bottom Line
• High (red)
• Medium (yellow)
• Low (green)

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Diamond Touch Leadership

• Presenter Dr. Nate Booth

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The Cycle of Life

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• GIVE
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• HAVE BE
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• DO

• To change one part of The Cycle of Life, focus
  your attention on the other 3

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Success

• Success is like a butterfly. The more you chase
  it, the more it eludes you.
• But if you turn your attention to other things,
  it comes softly and sits on your shoulder.

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Moving Toward your Vision

• Focus on outcomes first and process second.
• Focus on the past, the present, and the future as
  needed.
• Focus on limitations and problems 2 of the time,
  and on resources and solutions 98 of the time.
• Focus on learning and growing.
• Focus on providing value.
• Focus on things that are important and not just
  urgent.

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The Diamond Touch

• The Golden Rule says, Treat others in the way
  you would like to be treated.
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• The Diamond Rule says, Treat others in the
  unique way they would like to be treated.
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• When you have The Diamond Touch, you discover the
  unique pleasures and pains of people and then
  give it to them (if possible) with membership in
  your organization.
• To become a master of The Diamond Touch,
• You MUST discover what people really want (their
  Values)
• and how they want it (their Sparks)!

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Embrace Challenges

• Challenges are lifes way of letting you know
  that youre making progress.
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• C Challenges are the spice of life.
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• If you had no challenges in my life, you would
  be dead.
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• Like the eagle, use the challenges of life as a
  chance to soar

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Motivation Winning Thoughts

• Presenter Gary Rifkin

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How to Thrive in a Changing Economy

• Business Navigating Systems Inc,
• Martha Myers Senior Vice President
• Robert Reed President and CEO