Skate Canada Eastern Ontario Connections 2005

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Skate Canada Eastern OntarioConnections 2005

• Success is a Long Journey
• Further Thoughts on Leadership
• Presented by
• John Phelan
• jphelan_at_business.queensu.ca

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Overview of Presentation

• Why Reflection
• A Long Journey
• The Holistic Approach
• Video
• Final Thoughts

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Success is a Long JourneyGreat Leadership
Great Success

• We are all a product of 3 things
• Heredity
• Environment
• Our own decision-making.
• Victor Frankl Mans Search for Meaning

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Spend Time Reflecting

• The Importance of Reflection
• It allows us to individually assess our own
  performance
• This is time for reflection!
• Who am I?
• Where am I?
• Where are we?
• How do we get it done?

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Why reflection?

• Retreat
• Renewal
• Return
• (Warren Bennis, On Becoming a Leader).

"Reflection is vital at every level, in every
organization-
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Reflection

• When anything comes from the heart any energy,
  any action it comes with a passion that is
  unstoppable. (Anita Roddick Founder of Body
  Shop)

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WantedIndividuals for a long journey!

• It could be hazardous!
• Individuals will face many challenges successes
  and disappointments
• It will require great teamwork
• The team will face many challenges
• It will take 1000s of hours of dedication, no
  guarantees!
• It will take a certain type of individual to
  challenge themselves
• Success is a LONG JOURNEY

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No Magic!!
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Reflection

• No one stays at the same level. No one. You
  either get better or you get worse. And raising
  the bar is something the worlds most successful
  people, throughout time, have understood. Ludvig
  van Beethoven continued writing symphonies after
  his first and second. Michelangelo continued
  after sculpting David and, in fact painted the
  Sistine Chapel.
• (p. 188, Mike Shanahan) 

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The Inter-connectedness of Life

• A Holistic Approach The 4 Pillars Who am I?
• Emotional pillar
• Physical pillar
• Mental pillar
• Spiritual pillar

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Who am I?

• Personal Philosophy of Life
• What is truly important to me?
• Personal happiness what really matters to me
• Personal standards values, ethics, and
  principles
• Personal performance based on time available
• Personal commitment - realistic

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Professional Role
Confidence
Family Role
Lack of time
Health
Performance
Successful Performance
S P I R I T U A L
E M O T I O N A L
M E N T A L
P H Y S I C A L
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Pressures of life
Health
A feeling of a lack of control
Career and professional issues
Challenges with the Family
Issues with friends
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How do we build a stronger table?
Role
Performance
Successful Performance
Family
S P I R I T U A L
E M O T I O N A L
M E N T A L
P H Y S I C A L
Friends
Health
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Through Experienceand
Health
Career
Role
Successful Performance
S P I R I T U A L
E M O T I O N A L
M E N T A L
P H Y S I C A L
Family
E X P E R I E N C E
R E F L E C T I O N
Friends
Experience
Experience
Experience
T.S. Eliot said, We often have the experience,
but miss the meaning.
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With reflection The table becomes this!
Performance
Role
Health
Successful Performance
S P I R I T U A L
E M O T I O N A L
M E N T A L
P H Y S I C A L
Family
E X P E R I E N C E
E X P E R I E N C E
E X P E R I E N C E
E X P E R I E N C E
R E F L E C T I O N
R E F L E C T I O N
R E F L E C T I O N
R E F L E C T I O N
Friends
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Video

• British and Irish Lions
• Sandra Schmirler
• Mark Allen
• Canadian Womens Gold Metal Winners

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Personal Thoughts from the Video

• Life is a choice
• Communication through superb listening skills.
• Challenges or opportunities vs. problems a point
  of view.
• Self-confidence The voices
• There is no guarantee! accept if you dont
  give 100 of what you have you will not succeed.
• Never, never say quit!
• Continuous learning learn from failure.
• Take a risk! Dont be afraid of failure.
• E-cubed - emotional energy with edge!

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Honoring Thy Self (Nathaniel Brandon)

• The greatest barrier to achievement and success
  is not the lack of talent or ability but, rather,
  the fact that achievement and success above a
  certain level are outside our self concept, our
  image of who we are and what is appropriate to us

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Final ThoughtsCompliance/Commitment/Consistent/C
onfident
High performance
Confident
consistence
Intellectual Arrogance
Commitment
compliance
Lack of Confidence
Resistance
Low Performance
Low Experience
High Experience
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Intellectual Arrogance

• which causes disabling ignorance

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A Need for Resiliency

• Resiliency is based on 3 basic principles
• Reality while being positive, they are still
  very realistic.
• Need of a meaning of life based on values.
• Need to be able to improvise in situations that
  occur.

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My formula 3RS

• Respect For Self
• Respect For Others
• Responsibility For All Your Actions
• personal leadership

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Reflection

• Whether you realize it or not, there are no
  boundaries, but until you realize it, we cannot
  fully develop ourselves. The limitations each one
  of us has are defined in the ways we use our
  minds.
• John D. Loori