Transcript FSCS-03 Personal Development

Course 1C – Personal Development
The objective and purpose of the Florida SAL
College System is to increase, improve and
enhance the administrative and managerial skills of
current and future leaders of the Florida Sons of
The American Legion through education and direct
skill development.
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Name
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Squadron Number and Location
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Current Position or Title
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Years of Membership in the SAL
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What was the best thing you got out of Course 1
or 2?
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Course 1 Communications
◦ Written Communication
◦ Speaking Effectively
◦ Delivering
Presentations
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Course 2 –Personal
Administration
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Organization
Planning/Scheduling
Prioritizing
Manage Execution
Work Efficiently
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Building Action Plans for results
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Driving for results
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Develop Oneself
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Acting with Integrity
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Thinking Strategically
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What’s good planning ?
◦ Planning is organizing the tasks to be done
◦ Planning is identifying scheduling/coordinating
◦ Planning is understanding all elements affecting the
task to be done
◦ Planning is working out the method or details. “A Plan
of Attack”
Not always !!!
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Start with all the elements of good planning
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Have Specific goals and objectives
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Are time bound and defined
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Measurable against the plan
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Combine talents and energies of all team members
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Have Conclusions and Ends !!
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At the beginning of a project to establish clear
direction and goals
When established objectives are not being
achieved
To ensure results above expectations can be
achieved
To accomplish results
To Achieve results
Be effective
Accomplish the goals they set
Always be the best they can
To be great leaders !
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Course 2 we discussed Planning
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Course 2 we discussed Organization
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We just discussed “Action Plans”
Now……how do we pull it all together ?
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Effective leaders focus on achieving results
through and with others
Effective leaders persistently go after goals and
measure their success in terms of results
achieved
Effective leaders accomplish results beyond the
ordinary
And Win Big !!
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Strengthening your sense of purpose
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Putting a Top priority on Getting results
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Conveying a sense of Urgency
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Persisting in the face of difficulties
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Bringing issues to closure
Effective leaders persistently
focus on what is important to the
organization and work to achieve
those goals
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Determine what is most important to you -- what
do you want to achieve
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What results do you value and believe in ?
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Consider the importance of achieving your goal for yourself and your team
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Develop a statement of the results to which you
are committed
Getting results is critical for our
organization’s survival and growth. As a
leader, you must be perceived as putting
a high priority on getting and achieving
results. With a strong sense of purpose,
and a priority for results, you will be
driving for results !
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Make sure your team has measurable goals and
objectives. Then focus on results, not only the
activity
Monitor results frequently and give feedback
Keep your team focused on the goals they deem
important and critical
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Challenge yourself, and your team, to do better
without minimizing what has already been
accomplished
Communicate with your team about
organizational successes
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Persistently and positively work to solve problem
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Be there when your team needs you !
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Everything is Important!!
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Nothing is Important
Why isn’t it done yet!!
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Don’t worry….be happy!!
Its urgent -- must be done now!
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JUST DO IT!!!!!!!!!!
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Seek feedback from your team -- what is their
impression of the projects status and needs
Determine which projects and parts of the
projects are urgent and less urgent
Communicate those priorities to your team
If it is important to you, it will be important to
them
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Some goals are difficult to achieve!!
Yet, successful leaders are persistent, even with
difficult tasks
Despite evidence to the contrary, persistence
does not mean banging one’s head onto an
obstacle until one or the other gives way. That
just causes more pain!
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Use pre-established checkpoints to judge
success. If not being achieved, develop a
alternate plan
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Involve anyone/everyone in solving the problem
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Re-evaluate future targets and goals - maybe
they were not realistic
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Step back - examine it from a new angle, a fresh
perspective
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Nothing saps energy faster than constantly
dealing with the same problem!
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Closure must be achieve in order to keep driving
for results!
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Sometimes closure means negotiation, and
sometimes it means change of plans
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It always takes leadership
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Bring all people together and insist on a
resolution!!
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Value all opinions, but establish that issues must
be resolved
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Rely on the people who do the work the best to
accomplish the tasks
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Review the goals and current status to get the
best results possible
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With the elements just discussed:
◦ Action Plans
◦ Driving for results
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Using the sheets of paper that were handed out
only and no other materials
Construct the tallest free-standing structure - in
10 minutes.
Driving
for
Results
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10 MINUTES
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Change continues to intensify in today’s business
environment. Our Organization is no exception.
Continued development of one’s skills is not
longer optional
Success in one’s career now requires a serious
commitment to learning and self-development
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Capitalizing on Opportunities for learning
Creating a Plan for Learning and SelfDevelopment
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Implementing your Development plan
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Find/Be a mentor
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Employ the strategies of successful
people/successful learners
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Broadening your learning experiences
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View mistakes as learning opportunities
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Expand the scope of your knowledge base
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Leveraging your areas of strength
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Analyze your skills portfolio
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Focus on Your Development Objectives
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Create a plan for personal growth
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Ask for feedback from a respected
mentor/colleague
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Identify barriers to your development and plan to
overcome them
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Spend time each day on your plan
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Seizing On-the-job Development Opportunities
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Involve Others in your Development Efforts
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Seeking honest feedback from others
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Eliminating defensiveness when receiving feedback
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Find a Mentor who represents the best in the
skills you want
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Be a mentor!
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Partner your needs and plans with him
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Get feedback, give feedback
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Reflect on what you have learned
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Review the questions on the hand out
Decide/ Analyze if you are or are not doing these
things.
No right or wrongs, just a chance to establish a
“base line” of where your at.
Develop Oneself
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What are your thoughts ?
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How much is realistic, and how much is BS !
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Is it possible to enact the points made ?
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Will it help develop you ?
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What is Integrity ?
◦ Being respected
◦ Knowledge of right and wrong
◦ The ability to avoid the wrong
◦ Willingness to stand up for what is right
◦ Having trust and being trusted
◦ Being consistent between your words
and actions
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Establishing Trust and Integrity
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Working to Increase your Integrity
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Developing Organizational Integrity
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Make realistic promises and keep them ?
Give honest answers to questions/ challenges ?
Protect confidential information ?
Admit when you made a mistake ?
Consider truth and confidence to be important ?
Foster open, honest & sincere communication ?
Encourage others to question practices they
cannot support ?
Words and actions are the same ?
Allow others to ask questions ?
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Honest Communication
◦ Open, sincere statements
◦ Admit to mistakes
◦ Seek feedback
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Realistic Promises and Keeping
them
◦ Trust is built on fulfilled promises
◦ Avoid statements that can be
misinterpreted as promises
◦ Follow through - be responsible
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Modeling the Behavior
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Working with Confidential Information
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Making Decisions
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Establishing the Organizations Ethics
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Developing a “Code of Ethics”
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Protecting the Organizations Reputation
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Establishes a Trust relationship with your team
members
Allows for a growth environment
provides honest vision and supports the goals
you are driving to achieve
increases effectiveness and results
The Real Voyage of Discovery consists
not in seeking new lands but in
seeing with new eyes.
 Marcel Proust, 18th Century Philosopher
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Effective leaders think Strategically
They analyze opportunities and problems from
broad perspectives
They focus team energies on key activities
Strategic thinking is required for long-term and
short term planning
To think strategically, you must first have a
“Strategic Mindset”
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Developing a Strategic Mindset
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Applying Strategic-Thinking Skills
Lets evaluate our current strengths
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Enhance your strategic thinking
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Recognize the Implications of Issues
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Developing a Strategic Perspective
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Analyzing Factors Outside the Organization
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Identifying Key Strategic Opportunities
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Capitalizing on Strategic Opportunities
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Developing Strategic Alliances to Increase
Competitive Advantage
Course 1
Course 2
Course 3
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Course 1 - Communications
◦ Communication Skills
◦ Public Appearances
Course 2 – Personal Administration
◦ Time Management
◦ Personal Administrative Skills
Course 3 – Personal Development
◦ Action Plans/ Driving for results
◦ Develop Oneself
◦ Acting with Integrity
◦ Thinking Strategically
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Based on the 3 courses you have completed,
create a Florida SAL College System Mission
Statement
Should be focused on what the end objective is
(for FSCS), and how it should be achieved
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Each group has 30 minutes to complete
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Should be in “Bullet Point” statements
The Natural Conclusion to the
process of growth and discovery !
As we stated in the opening – the objective of the
Florida SAL College System is to increase, improve
and enhance the skills of current and future leaders
of the Florida Sons of The American Legion. It is not
intended, nor designed, to create leaders. That, as
always, must come through dedication to the ideals
of the Sons of The American Legion and The
American Legion Family.
Let the us know what you thought of this program.
We need your feedback to make this successful.
Please fill out the Evaluation Form & turn it in to an
instructor. Other comments or questions send us an
email.
Jim Roberts – [email protected]
Ed Sheubrooks – [email protected]
John Jennings – [email protected]
You have just completed the
Florida Sons of The American Legion College
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Congratulations on graduating the Florida SAL
College.
There is one more class function and that is
GRADUATION.
This will take place at the Detachment
Convention.
So look nice for the class picture (coat, tie and
cover).
THANK YOU FOR PARTICIPATING