Mission, Vision are you kidding me? Leading Yourself First

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Mission, Visionare you kidding me?
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Leading Yourself First
Requires you to first understand
Who you are Where you are going Why you are going
there
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Scenario 1
The Busy Worker
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Scenario 2
The Effective Worker
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Developing an understanding of

• Who you are
• Where you are going, and
• Why you are going there

enables you to act in a deliberate and focused
manner toward some specified purpose
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Acting in a deliberate and focused manner toward
some specified purpose
is facilitated by clarifying your
VISION MISSION VALUES
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VISION

• what you want to create of yourself and the world
  around you

-Peter Senge
where you want to go the destination
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Personal Leadership VISION Statement

• A personal leadership vision statement should
  address the following questions
• What type of leader would you like to be a year
  from now?
• How do you want to think and feel about yourself,
  and those around you?
• What leadership goals do you want to have
  accomplished?
• Additional help
• Try to capture what you want to create for
  yourself and those around you. Your personal
  leadership vision statement should be viewed as a
  development strategy written in the present
  tense.

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Personal Leadership VISION Statement
A dynamic and effective organization comprised
of individuals who encourage, enable, model,
inspire and challenge themselves and others.
(Matt and Gregs example)
the destinationwhat youd ultimately hope for
as a result of your efforts
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Worksheet Assignment

• Review worksheet
• Begin to think about this concept
• Talk about this concept with your classmates
• Begin to put pencil to paper

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MISSION

• a clarifying statement of what you do, how you do
  it, and why

-John Bryson
the roadmap that enables you to reach your
destination
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Personal Leadership MISSION Statement

• Your statement addresses these questions
• What is my philosophy of leadership?
• What do I stand for as a leader?
• What action am I taking to reach my leadership
  potential?
• Additional help
• Imagine that it is your 50th birthday (or another
  significant milestone in your life). A national
  magazine has asked to write a story about your
  leadership achievements. What you would want
  your family, friends, co-workers in your
  profession and in your community to say about
  you?

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Personal Leadership MISSION Statement
To facilitate the achievement of shared goals
(what) by encouraging, enabling, modeling,
inspiring and challenging the team (how) to
create a more dynamic and effective organization
(why). (Matt and Gregs example)
what is required of us in order to reach our
destination
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Worksheet Assignment

• Review worksheet
• Begin to think about this concept
• Talk about this concept with your classmates
• Begin to put pencil to paper

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Happy New Year!

• Jot down a few goals you have set for yourself in
  2007.be willing to openly share at least one of
  them.

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What is a SMART goal?

• Simple
• Measurable
• Attainable
• Realistic
• Time-bound

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SMART GOALS

• Add power to the mission

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VALUES - Ethos

• a set of principles that guide ones direction

-Daniel Katz
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VALUES Ethos
form the cornerstones for all you do and
accomplish define how and where you spend your
time and the choices that you will make
demonstrated and modeled in your behavior,
decision making, contributions, and interpersonal
interactions
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VALUES - Ethos
Persistence Tenacity Job well done Teamwork Cooper
ation Efficiency
Integrity Honesty Empathy Optimism Compassion Dive
rsity Responsibility
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Leading Yourself First
Requires taking time to look inward, reflect, and
act with purpose.
Who are you? Where are you going? Why are you
going there?
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What is Cooperative Extension?

• Historical context
• Mission
• Mandates
• Vision
• Core organizational values
• Core leadership values
• Goals

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Cooperative Extension Us

• An organization cannot be successful until the
  individuals within it can succeed.

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• Theres no use moving ahead if you dont have a
  vision.
• Dewitt Jones

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Questions?
Matt Hanson 920-386-3790 matt.hanson_at_ces.uwex.edu
Greg Davis 614-292-6356 davis.1081_at_osu.edu