Food Systems Leadership Institute

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Food Systems Leadership Institute

• Developing Individual Institutional Leadership
  for a
• 21st Century Food System

Fellowship Orientation October 2008
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Institute Overarching Goalsare that you, as an
FSLI Scholar, will
Consistently articulate a broad, integrated food
systems perspective focused on healthy humans,
environments, communities, and economies.
Be skilled at bringing together multiple
constituencies to focus on major food system
challenges, issues, opportunities.
Influence and commit to your organizations
values, goals, and strategic directions.
Advocate for change within your organization
consistent with the food system vision.
Serve broader and more diverse constituencies.
Create positive changes to impact the health of
citizens, the environment, the economy, and local
communities within your respective states/area.
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FSLI Program Components
GCHERA Intl Conf
WKKF Food Society Meeting
NASULGC annual meeting
3 Residential Retreats
Optional Activities
Topic Specific Conference Calls
Mentoring
4 Executive Coaching Sessions
Personal Development Plan
Individual Leadership Project
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FSLI Curriculum Goal
Weave together complementary core threads to
create a strong net of skills that will improve
your leadership performance
Individual Learning
Individual Learning
Individual Learning
Food Systems Leadership
Fall Retreat
Winter Retreat
Spring Retreat
Personal Leadership

• Scope
• Inter-
• Connected-
• ness
• Impact
• Relevance
• Change

Organizational Leadership
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Leadership understanding self
Your Leadership Behaviors
Reflective Leadership Bench Building
Your Leadership Reflection

• Reading the tea leaves understanding
• human motivation
• How behaviors speak
• for you
• Emotional Intelligence

• How others see you
• Your Personality
• Type
• Leadership
• Behaviors
• Transformation

• Reflective leadership
• Career Management
• How you deal with
• Change

Fall Retreat (NCSU-UNC)
Spring Retreat (UVM)
Winter Retreat (OSU)
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Leadership understanding others
Reflective Leadership Bench Building
Your Leadership Behaviors
Your Leadership Reflection

• Impact of your
• leadership
• The personality
• organizational
• culture link
• Leadership
• Behaviors

• Reflective leadership
• The Power of
• Symbols
• Managing change
• Leadership Priorities

• Behavioral basis of Leadership
• Soft Skills Emotional Intelligence
• Conflict resolution

Fall Retreat (NCSU-UNC)
Winter Retreat (OSU)
Spring Retreat (UVM)
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Leadership managing change
Leading Change
Boundary Spanning, Political Savvy
Systems Applications

• Transformation
• FSLI Commission
• Vision
• The Future
• Snapshot of the
• America of
• tomorrow

• Sustainable Systems
• Innovation
• The Politically Savvy
• Leader
• Food Systems applying leadership

• Organizational Change case studies
• Developing political influence at home
• Innovation

Fall Retreat (NCSU-UNC)
Winter Retreat (OSU)
Spring Retreat (UVM)
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Leadership leading organizations
Silos to Systems Reinvention
Engagement Impact
Systems Thinking

• Creating Productive
• Cultures
• Spanning Boundaries
• Living the Organizational Change experience

• Systems thinking
• The Hard-Wiring of Humans creating
  organizational culture

• Project reinvent
• Dialogue
• Development
• Turnaround
• Imperatives
• Culture Issues

Fall Retreat (NCSU-UNC)
Winter Retreat (OSU)
Spring Retreat (UVM)
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Your Challenge Applying Leadership to Food
Systems
Leading Organizations, creating culture
Communicating
Systems Thinking
Dealing with Conflict
Spanning Boundaries
Leading Change
Food Systems Leadership
Creating Shared Vision
Understanding others
Self Awareness
Leading Organizations
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Individual Learning
Plan
Coach
Mentor
Project
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Your PLAN
How you want to develop and grow as an individual
over the next two years
Your growth in 3 areas
Personal Leadership Skills
Organizational Leadership Skills
Food Systems Leadership Skills
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Your COACH
Who will help you make sense of instrument-based
feedback, apply leadership skills to home
organization
Executive coaching set up
Feedback during retreat, exec ongoing
4 Sessions its FREE to you during FSLI!
Focus on interpersonal, soft, organizational,
communication, etc.
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Your MENTOR
Who will help advise you, show you the ropes,
help make things happen for you
Strategies for success
Someone who you can learn from, relate to
Make regular appointments with them
Set goals for your work together
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Your PROJECT
What you want to show for your work, what you
want to change or impact
A back at home skills based approach
Choose something you need/want to do
Time Frame 12-18 months
Impacts home organization or food system
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Your Plan? Your Project? Whats the
difference?
How you want to CHANGE your world
How you want to GROW
You make IMPACT at your home organization, in a
professional association, the food system, etc
What you want to PERSONALLY get out of FSLI how
you want to grow as a leader
An OUTCOME that is measurable and evident
This is PROCESS this guides your coaching during
the 2 years
Time Frame 12-18 months
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Leadership/Self Understanding Major Program
Components
Your Leadership mirror
Leadership Instruments
360 feedback
Face-to-face individual instrument debrief
CPI 260
MBTI I II
The Organization Simulation
Bar-On EQi (Emotional Intelligence)
Individual Development Plan
FIRO-B
Change Style Indicator
On-going executive coaching
Paper Planes Inc, simulation
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Leadership Instrument Feedback
Lunch with coaches
Wednesday afternoon
1 hour, 20 min Meet 1-on-one with a
professional feedback coach
1 hour, 20 min Mentoring/Reflection Time create
your Individual Development Plan draft
Leadership feedback rotations
1 hour, 20 min Team/Peer Coaching Time
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Keys to Success in FSLI Retreats
Focus on the here and now
Start sessions on time
Be interactivebut let the speaker share their
material with you too!
Beware the land cruise!