creating a pathway to lead

Creating a Pathway to LeadershipKarinda Barrett, Ph.D.

Outcomes for Session

• Inspire your leadership• Determine why you want to lead• Overcome barriers to leading• Identify support• Focus on your knowledge, skills and abilities• Take the next step

What inspires your leadership?

Stand by Your Quote

Pick the quote that has meaning to you and stand by it.

Talk to the others who are standing by the quote.

•What meaning does the quote have for you?•Why did you pick it?•How does it help you think about your leadership?

Why Do You Want to Lead?

• List three reasons you want to lead others.

Why Do You Want to Lead?

• List three reasons you want to lead others.

• Turn to your neighbor and share your reasons.

What is Keeping You From Leading?

• Write one barrier on a piece of colored paper.


• Write one barrier on a piece of colored paper.

• Fold the paper into a paper airplane.


• Write one barrier on a piece of colored paper.• Fold the paper into a paper airplane.• When I say go, fly your airplane and pick up

other airplanes. Keep flying airplanes until I say stop.


• Open the airplane you picked up.

• Read the barrier.

• Think of one way to overcome the barrier.

Mentors and Sponsors

• What is the difference between a mentor and a sponsor?

• What qualities do you want in a mentor?

• What qualities do you want in a sponsor?

• Which do you need right now?

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Knowledge: formal and informal

• Skills: training• Ability:

practice

Who are you?

• Myers-Briggs• StrengthsQuest• Leader-Manager Profile• Kolb’s Learning Styles• VARK Learning Styles• Leadership Insight Inventory• Leadership Practices Inventory• DISC Profile

Next step

Take every opportunity

to lead!

If not me, then whom?

If not now, then when?

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