Who moved my cheese

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Who moved my cheese?

• A short session on life, liberty, and the
  pursuit of happiness
• Facilitated by Nancy E. Stetson, Ed.D.
• Expert on Call
• http//CompanyofExperts.net
• Nancy_at_sonic.net

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Introductions and overview

• Who I am and whats my cheese
• What makes me happy!
• Who you are and whats your cheese
• What makes you happy!

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Who moved my cheese?

• A 12-minute video
• As youre watching, notice which of the four
  characters you believe you are most like

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Debrief

• So, which character do you believe you are you
  most like?

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• Hem? Who does not want to change? Its not fair!

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• Haw? Who is startled by change, but then laughs
  at himself, changes and moves on to new cheese?

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• Sniff? Who can smell change in the air?

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• Scurry? Who goes into action immediately?

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Or, are there other possibilities?
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• characters who are not in the best-selling book,
  Who Moved My Cheese?, by Spencer Johnson, M.D?
  (1998)

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Characters who move their own cheese?
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• Lets try out another possibility
• Take a few minutes to think about a high-point
  experience in your past or current professional
  life when you were exceptionally happy (i.e., you
  felt really good about the positive impact you
  were having on students or on the college)
• What were you doing? Who was involved? What were
  the factors, the forces, the conditions that
  supported your moments of exceptional happiness?
• A variation on Appreciative Process by G.
  Bushe, 2001, Clear Leadership

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• Now, pair up with someone you dont know, or
  dont know well
• Take turns sharing your stories about those
  exceptional moments

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• You can learn how to create more cheese, i.e.,
  more happiness in your professional life

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Meet Track and Fan!

• 1. Be clear about what you want to create MORE of
  (not less of)
• In this case, you want to create MORE happiness
  in your professional life
• 2. Track it
• Notice when you are happy
• Also, notice the conditions, the forces, the
  factors that support your happiness

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• 3. Fan your happiness
• Praise yourself for creating it
• Bless it - give license to yourself to continue
  creating it
• Ask yourself to create even MORE of it
• 4. Get others to Track and Fan your happiness,
  i.e., notice and acknowledge your exceptional
  moments of happiness

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When you create your own cheese, no one else can
move it!
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Change the way you think about change

• Old way some external force or agency or person
  moves the colleges cheese and the college
  reacts or responds
• Negatively
• Positively
• New way the college, as a whole system (board,
  CEO, administrators, classified staff and
  students), collaboratively creates the positive
  changes that matter most AND that the college
  community most wants

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Create MORE of your own cheese!

• As a trustee and as a board, what is one thing
  you can do to help the whole college
  collaboratively create the changes that matter
  most AND that the college community most wants?

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On an index card

• What was the most important thing you learned
  today?
• How will you apply it? That is, how will you
  change your DNA?
• Decide what you want to do more of
• Notice each little instance of its presence
• Acknowledge and celebrate each time you notice it