UMKC Starr Women Leaders Program

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UMKC Starr Women Leaders Program

• UMKC Mentors Retreat
• Saturday, September 26, 2009

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Agenda
Starr Women Leaders Program

• Check-in Refreshments
• Welcome Overview of the Starr Women Leaders
  Program 
• Introductions
• What is Leadership?  
• Personal-Best Leadership Experience
• 5 Leadership Practices Student Leadership
  Practices Inventory 
• Action Planning
• Wrap-Up

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SWLP Overview
Starr Women Leaders Program

• Mission
• Points Summary
• Schedule
• Facebook Group

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SWLP Mission
Starr Women Leaders Program

• The mission of the Starr Women Leaders Program is
  to provide leadership-focused social support and
  to increase leadership competence among
  undergraduate women in order to strengthen
  women's leadership in all its diversity at UMKC
  and in the community.

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Women Leadership
Starr Women Leaders Program
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Women Leadership
Starr Women Leaders Program

• Secretary Clintons Confirmation Hearing
• http//jezebel.com/5130235/hillary-will-not-let-wo
  men-obamas-mom-go-unheard
• Wall Street Women
• http//www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id5301724n

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The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership
Starr Women Leaders Program

• Model the Way
• Inspire a Shared Vision
• Challenge the Process
• Enable Others to Act
• Encourage the Heart

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Model the Way
Starr Women Leaders Program

• Find your voice
• by clarifying your personal values.
• Set the example
• by aligning actions with shared values.

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Inspire a Shared Vision
Starr Women Leaders Program

• Envision the future
• by imagining exciting an ennobling possibilities.
• Enlist others
• in a common vision by appealing to shared
  aspirations.

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Challenge the Process
Starr Women Leaders Program

• Search for opportunities
• by seeking innovative ways to change, grow, and
  improve.
• Experiment and take risks
• by constantly generating small wins and learning
  from mistakes

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Enable Others to Act
Starr Women Leaders Program

• Foster collaboration
• by promoting cooperative goals and building
  trust.
• Strengthen others
• by sharing power and discretion.

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Encourage the Heart
Starr Women Leaders Program

• Recognize contributions
• by showing appreciation for individual
  excellence.
• Celebrate the values and victories
• by creating a spirit of community.

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Ten Commitments of Leadership
Starr Women Leaders Program

• 1. Find your voice
• by clarifying your personal values.
• 2. Set the example
• by aligning actions with shared values.
• 3. Envision the future
• by imagining exciting and ennobling
  possibilities.
• 4. Enlist others
• in a common vision by appealing to shared
  aspirations.
• 5. Search for opportunities
• by seeking innovative ways to change, grow, and
  improve.

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Ten Commitments of Leadership
Starr Women Leaders Program

• 6. Experiment and take risks
• by constantly generating small wins and learning
  from mistakes.
• 7. Foster collaboration
• by promoting cooperative goals and building
  trust.
• 8. Strengthen others
• by sharing power and discretion.
• 9. Recognize contributions
• by showing appreciation for individual
  excellence.
• 10. Celebrate the values and victories
• by creating a spirit of community.

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Strengths OpportunitiesSummary Worksheet
Starr Women Leaders Program

• Strengths
• Which of the leadership practices and behaviors
  are you most comfortable with? Why? Can you do
  more?
• Areas for Improvement
• What can you do to use a practice more
  frequently? What will it take to feel more
  comfortable?

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Action-Planning Worksheet
Starr Women Leaders Program

• 1. What would you like to be better able to do?
• 2. What specific actions will you take?
• 3. What is the first action you will take? Who
  will be involved? When will you begin?
• Action
• People Involved
• Target Date
• 4. Complete this sentence I will know I have
  improved in
• this leadership skill when . . .
• 5. When will you review your progress?