Personal Growth

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Highly Effective Leadership
Dr. Michael Perusich
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Leaders are made, they are not born. They are
made by hard effort, which is the price which all
of us must pay to achieve any goal that is
worthwhile
Vince Lombardi
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habits represent our personal effectiveness
centered on principled characteristics to help
us achieve leadership GREATNESS
Steven Covey
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habits remap the mind

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paradigms that drive our thought process
eventually turn into simple basic rules to live by
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habits remap the mind

• our character is a collection of habits
• habits have a powerful role in our lives

tooth brush
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habits remap the mind

Knowledge
allows us to know what to do
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habits remap the mind

Skills
the ability to know how to do it
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habits remap the mind

Desire
the motivation to do it
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how habits are made
It takes a paradigm shift to make a habit
Cell Phones
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paradigm shift

• a pattern, model, representation
• its a mental image
• based on what we believe
• bring our background and experience

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paradigm shift

• our perception of reality is projected out of our
  own experience
• see the world through our perception
• Apollo 13

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paradigm shift
Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that
which we do not see
Martin Luther King Jr
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paradigm shift

• its a map projected by your mind
• not an accurate map
• behaviour, attitude, experience determine how you
  interpret the map

Soccer to Basketball
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mind moves through stages
Behavior Attitude Experience Come from our
stages of development
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mind moves through stages

• Dependence The paradigm under which we are
  born, relying upon others to take care of us

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mind moves through stages

• Dependence The paradigm under which we are
  born, relying upon others to take care of us
• Independence The paradigm under which we can
  make our own decisions and take care of ourselves

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mind moves through stages

• Dependence we are born, relying upon others to
  take care of us
• Independence we can make our own decisions and
  take care of ourselves
• Interdependence we co-operate to achieve
  something that cannot be achieved independently

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paradigm shift

• Paradigm shifts cause us to think differently
  Habits are created out of a paradigm shift
• Interdependence drives the shift
• All the significant breakthroughs in the world
  are done by thinking differently

Apple Computer
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When you think ahead it just becomes
obvious Steve Jobs
PROACTIVE
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be proactive

• It is about taking responsibility for your life
• Proactive people are "response-able"
• don't blame circumstances or conditions
• choose their behaviour
• Reactive people are affected by their environment
• find external sources to blame for their behaviour

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be proactive

• Becoming proactive
• ability to subordinate an impulse/response to a
  value
• How/when we respond to external forces/stimuli
• between stimulus and response is our greatest
  power
• the freedom to choose your response

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• Make it a great day

we can choose our attitude!
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Begin with the end in mind Dr. Steven Covey
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• If you dont know where
• youre going
• You might end up
• somewhere else

begin with the end in mind
pixar birds
Leadership requires a plan
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begin with the end in mind

• this habit based on imagination
• ability to envision in your mind what you cannot
  at present see with your eyes
• the principle that all things are created twice
• mental (1st) creation
• physical (2nd) creation
• like a blueprint for construction

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begin with the end in mind

• begin with the End in Mind
• start each day, task, or project with a clear
  vision and desired direction and destination
• being proactive helps make things happen

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begin with the end in mind

• connecting with your own uniqueness
• helps define the personal, moral, and ethical
  guidelines within which you can most happily
  express and fulfil yourself the art of our
  direction

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Whats your personal mission statement?
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begin with the end in mind

• Personal Mission Statement
• focus on what you want to be / do
• Its your plan for success
• reaffirms who you are
• puts goals into focus
• moves your ideas into real world
• Leaders live by mission statements

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live with integrity to make a difference in the
lives of others to give back with
charity, sacrifice, inspiration, impact
priority roles Christian, husband, father, son,
healer, scholar, friend
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Actions express priorities Mahatma Gandhi
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priorities

• putting first things first
• your purpose, values, roles, and priorities
• define first things
• those things you find of most worth
• helps you organize and managing time and events

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priorities

• divide time into 4 quadrants

creates efficiency time management
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priorities

• Quad 1 the Procrastinator

put everything off constant crisis eventually
leads to burnout

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priorities
Quad 2 the Prioritizer

• planning and goal setting
• exercise and relaxation
• deals with urgent first

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priorities
Quad 3 the Yes-Man

• short term focus
• allows interruptions
• lose sight of long-term objective

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priorities
Quad 4 the SLACKER

• endless non-productive phone calls
• surfs the internet - computer games
• expect everyone else to carry them

George
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living a balanced Quad 2

• Vision
• Perspective
• Balance
• Discipline
• Control
• Fewer crises

Function on a higher level Ability to adapt
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When two or more people come together for a
common purpose to add value to one anotheryou
always create win win John Maxwell
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create win-win

• code for collaboration
• not about being nice or a quick-fix technique
• based on the paradigm where
• agreements/solutions are mutually beneficial
• plenty for everyone

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create win-win

• we base self-worth on
• comparison and competition
• we think about succeeding
• when someone else fails
• life becomes a zero-sum game

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create win-win

• a frame of mind seeking life as a
• cooperative arena
• not a competitive

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create win-win

• 3 vital characteristics are
• involved to create cooperation

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create win-win

• Integrity
• sticking to your feelings, values, commitment

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create win-win

• Integrity
• sticking to your feelings, values, commitment
• Maturity
• express your ideas and feelings with courage and
  consideration for the ideas and feelings of others

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create win-win

• Integrity
• sticking to your feelings, values, commitment
• Maturity
• express your ideas and feelings with courage and
  consideration for the ideas and feelings of
  others
• Abundance Mentality
• believing there is plenty for everyone

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create win-win
achieving balance between all 3 is the essence of
win-win

hotel
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Simon Sinek
Listening is not understanding the words of the
questionlistening is understand why the question
was asked
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effective listening

• The communication process
• try to be understood to get our point across
• we pretend to listen
• selectively hear certain parts
• focus only on the words being said
• miss the meaning entirely

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effective listening

• our intent is to reply not understand
• we listen to ourselves as we prepare in the mind
  what we are going to say or ask
• we filter everything we hear through experience
  as our frame of reference

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effective listening

• This happens because we dont
• listen with empathy!

jerry springer
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effective listening

• Empathetic listening
• gives you powerful information
• focused on receiving info without injecting your
  own thought, feelings, motives
• empathy allows you to focus and cause influence
  to problem solve

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effective listening
Stephen R. Covey
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Synergy does not mean giving up what we want.
It means joining to co-create so each is able to
receive more of what we want
Barbara Marx Hubbard Author
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synergize

• the principle of creative cooperation
• open-mindedness
• finding new solutions to old problems

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synergize

• doesn't just happen on its own
• requires trust
• bring personal experience / expertise
• comingle it with the TEAM

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synergize

• unifies the greatest powers within people
• gaining more insight ? creates mutual learning
• ? momentum to more insight and more learning

Plants comingle their roots when planted closely
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synergize

• T.E.A.M.
• together everyone achieves more
• produce better results than as individuals

Apple Think-Tanks
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synergize

• Valuing differences is what drives synergy
• Differences are strengths, not weaknesses
• the sum is always more efficient than the parts

Football team
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Investing in yourself is the best thing you can
do! Warren Buffet
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invest in you

• preserving and enhancing the greatest asset
• YOU!
• balanced program of self-renewal in 4 areas
• physical social/emotional mental spiritual

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invest in you

• Physical
• beneficial eating, exercising, resting
• Social/Emotional
• making social / meaningful connections

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invest in you

• Mental
• learning, reading, writing, teaching
• Spiritual
• expand spiritual self through meditation, music,
  art, nature, prayer, service

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invest in you

• renewal in each of the 4 areas
• physical
• social/emotional
• mental
• spiritual
• create growth and change in life
• fresh for each day

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• allow the saw to go dull
• the body becomes weak
• the mind mechanical
• the emotions raw
• the spirit insensitive
• the person selfish

Retired on the job
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Mow a little grasssip a little tea
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leadership happens because it becomes habit
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We can not start over, but we can start now and
create a new ending
Zig Ziglar
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Highly Effective Leadership
Dr. Michael Perusich