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By: Pedro Henry & Ryan Keesee Outline ➔ What is the Student leadership Challenge? ➔ What are the Five Practices for Exemplary Leadership? ➔ How does it relate to the ➔ Activity ➔ Discussion Trivia time What is the Arrow’s secret identity?

A.Bruce Wayne B. Oliver Queen C. D. Bubba Gump The Student Leadership Challenge

➔ Created by James M. Kouzes & Barry Z. Posner ➔ Mobilizing others to want to get extraordinary things done. ➔ The practices leaders use to transform values into actions, visions into realities, obstacles into innovations separateness into solidarity, and risks into rewards Trivia Time

What is Oliver’s only one goal while on the island? Survive!! Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership ➔Model the Way ➔Inspire a Shared Vision ➔Challenge the Process ➔Enable Others to Act ➔Encourage the Heart Model the Way ➔ Titles are granted, but it’s your behavior that wins you respect ➔ Leaders must clarify their values. To earn and sustain personal credibility, you must be able to clearly articulate deeply held beliefs. Trivia Time!!

Q: Oliver Queen’s club is called, “The Verdant” which is a word defined as:

A. A virtuous person B. A green spector C. Green with vegetation D. The vigilante

As long as one keeps searching, the answers come. -Joan Baez

Inspire a Shared vision

➔ Clarifying your vision, like clarifying your values, is an intuitive, emotional process. ➔ Envisioning the future begins with passion, feeling, concern, or an inspiration that something is worth doing. ➔ Research shows that people who are self-motivated keep working toward a result even if there’s no reward for them personally ➔ Enlist others: When students in your group or organization understand how they’re truly distinctive and how they stand out in the crowd, they’re a lot more eager to voluntarily sign up and invest their energies. Trivia Time

Q: What is Felicity Smoak’s middle name?

A. Mamba B. Megan C. Meredith D. Melony

You don’t lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case. -Ken Kesey Challenge the process

➔ The work of a student leader is change, and they are always on the lookout for ways that things could be better than they are. ➔ Challenging the process is not about challenge for challenge’s sake. It’s not about shaking things up just to keep people on their toes. It’s about challenge for meaning’s sake. ➔ It requires a willingness to take risks and experiment with innovative ideas. ➔ The quest for change is an adventure. Trivia Time

Which character is not an original character from D.C. comics?

A. John Diggle B. Laurel Lance C. Roy Harper D. Felicity Smoak

The secret to getting ahead is getting started. -Sally Berger Enable Others to act

➔ Student Leaders foster collaboration and build trust. ➔ Foster Collaboration: Studies show the more trusted people feel, the better they innovate. ➔ To demonstrate trust you must listen and learn from others and share information and resources. ➔ Student leaders need to instill confidence in their fellow students and help them recognize their own abilities. Trivia time

Who said: “The only way to forge steel is to temper it with Fire?”

A. Oliver Queen B. Ra’s Al Ghul C. Slade Wilson D. Malcolm Merlyn

To say my fate is not tied to your fate is like saying, “You’re end of the boat is sinking.” -Hugh Downs Encourage the heart

➔ Genuine acts of caring uplift the spirit and draw people forward. ➔ Recognition is about acknowledging good results and reinforcing positive performance, shaping an environment in which everyone’s contributions are noticed and appreciated. ➔ Celebrate the values and victories: At the other end of the spectrum from individual, personalized recognition are celebrations-those significant occasions on which respect and gratitude are proclaimed publicly. ➔ Personalizing recognition requires knowing what’s appropriate both individually and culturally. trivia time

Q: When Thea asks what the island was like, what was Oliver’s response?

A. Cold B. Lonely C. Hell D. Vacation

There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread. -Mother Teresa conclusion

➔ You are the most important leader in the room ➔ Leadership is learned ➔ First lead yourself ➔ Moral leadership calls us to higher purposes ➔ Humility is the antidote to hubris ➔ Leadership is in the moment

Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can. -Ashleigh Brilliant Activity ➔Please form two teams

Questions? References

➔ J. Kouzes & B. Posner (2014). The Student Leadership Challenge. The Leadership Challenge: San Francisco, CA ➔ J. Kouzes & B. Posner (2008). The Student Leadership Challenge. Jossey-Bass: San Francisco, CA. ➔ Internet Movie Database (2015). Arrow. Trivia ➔ tv.com (2015). Arrow. Trivia