Transcript UMKC Women’s Center

UMKC Starr Women Leaders
Program
UMKC Mentors’ Retreat
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Starr Women Leaders Program
Agenda
• 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
Starr Women Leaders Program
SWLP Overview
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Mission
Points Summary
Schedule
Facebook Group
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SWLP Mission
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
Women & Leadership
• Secretary Clinton’s Confirmation Hearing
▫ http://jezebel.com/5130235/hillary-will-not-letwomen-obamas-mom-go-unheard
• Wall Street & Women
▫ http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=5301724n
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The Five Practices of Exemplary
Leadership
• Model the Way
• Inspire a Shared Vision
• Challenge the Process
• Enable Others to Act
• Encourage the Heart
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Model the Way
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
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
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
Foster collaboration
by promoting cooperative goals and building trust.
Strengthen others
by sharing power and discretion.
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Encourage the Heart
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
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
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 & Opportunities
Summary Worksheet
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
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?