Using Teamworks to Achieve Your Dreams

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Using Teamworks to Achieve Your Dreams!

• Bill Johnson
  Patricia Griffin
• The College of New Jersey Fort Hays
  State University
• NACADA National Conference
• Las Vegas, Nevada
• October 7, 2005

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Goal Setting

• Choose a goal
• Intensify your desire to achieve your goal
• Develop a strong belief that you can achieve your
  goal
• Set a deadline

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Goal Setting

• Write down your goal
• Break your goal down
• Define your tasks

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Delivering the Goods

• Teamworks are a group of people of any size
  called together for the express purpose of
  helping you get what you want and, at the same
  time helping them get what they want. (Barbara
  Sher)

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Idea Exchange/Brainstorming Bash
Gathering of people (size of group can be small
as 2 people or as large as 500 people) for the
purpose of brainstorming each others dreams.
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Basic Premise 1

• Whats your dream?
• What do you want?
• In a perfect world, what would you want to do?
• What are you passionate about?
• Whats your fondest dream?
• If theres something you could do for the rest of
  your life, what would it be?

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Basic Premise 2

• Whats the problem?
• Whats holding you back?
• Why cant you get started?
• Whats keeping you from accomplishing your
  goal/dream?

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Basic Premise 3

• How will you solve the problem?
• What are you going to do about it?
• What can I/we do to help?
• Got any ideas?

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Idea Exchange/Brainstorming Bash Exercise

• On your index card, write down the following
• Your name
• A goal (Whats your dream?)
• An obstacle (Whats the problem?)

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The Next StepThe Achievement Team

• Find at least one other person (prefer 3-7 other
  people) interested in working with you to achieve
  more in both lives
• Meet on a regular basis (once a week, once every
  two weeks, etc.)
• Gathering should be structured as a business
  meeting, not a social event.

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Final Thoughts

• Idea Exchange/Brainstorming Bash gets you
  started towards your goal and dreams.
• Achievement Team holds you ACCOUNTABLE to
  achieve your goals and dreams
• When is a good time to get started?
  IMMEDIATELY!!!

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Thank you for coming!

• Have a Wonderful Conference!
• Contact Information
• shoes_at_tcnj.edu or
• pgriffin_at_fhsu.edu