UMKC Starr Women Leaders ProgramUMKC Mentors’ RetreatSaturday, September 26, 2009

Agenda• Check-in & Refreshments• Welcome & Overview of the Starr Women

Leaders Program • Introductions• What is Leadership?  • Personal-Best Leadership Experience• 5 Leadership Practices & Student Leadership

Practices Inventory • Action Planning• Wrap-Up

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SWLP Overview

•Mission•Points Summary•Schedule•Facebook Group

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SWLP Mission

The mission of the Starr Women Leaders Program is to provide leadership-focused social support and to increase leadership competence among undergraduate women in order to strengthen women's leadership in all its diversity at UMKC and in the community.

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Women & Leadership

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Women & Leadership

•Secretary Clinton’s Confirmation Hearing▫http://jezebel.com/5130235/hillary-will-not-let-

women-obamas-mom-go-unheard

•Wall Street & Women▫http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=530

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The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership

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• Model the Way

• Inspire a Shared Vision

• Challenge the Process

• Enable Others to Act

• Encourage the Heart

Model the Way

Find your voice by clarifying your personal values.

Set the example by aligning actions with shared values.

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Inspire a Shared Vision

Envision the future by imagining exciting an ennobling

possibilities.

Enlist others in a common vision by appealing to shared

aspirations.

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Challenge the Process

Search for opportunities by seeking innovative ways to change,

grow, and improve.

Experiment and take risks by constantly generating small wins and

learning from mistakes

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Enable Others to Act

Foster collaboration by promoting cooperative goals and

building trust.

Strengthen others by sharing power and discretion.

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Encourage the Heart

Recognize contributions by showing appreciation for individual

excellence.

Celebrate the values and victoriesby creating a spirit of community.

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Ten Commitments of Leadership

1. Find your voice by clarifying your personal values.

2. Set the example by aligning actions with shared values.

3. Envision the future by imagining exciting and ennobling possibilities.

4. Enlist others in a common vision by appealing to shared aspirations.

5. Search for opportunities by seeking innovative ways to change, grow, and improve.

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Ten Commitments of Leadership

6. Experiment and take risks by constantly generating small wins and learning from

mistakes.

7. Foster collaboration by promoting cooperative goals and building trust.

8. Strengthen others by sharing power and discretion.

9. Recognize contributions by showing appreciation for individual excellence.

10. Celebrate the values and victories by creating a spirit of community.

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Strengths & OpportunitiesSummary Worksheet

Strengths• Which of the leadership practices and behaviors

are you most comfortable with? Why? Can you do more?

Areas for Improvement• What can you do to use a practice more

frequently? What will it take to feel more comfortable?

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Action-Planning Worksheet1. What would you like to be better able to do?2. What specific actions will you take?3. What is the first action you will take? Who will be

involved? When will you begin?ActionPeople InvolvedTarget Date

4. Complete this sentence: “I will know I have improved in this leadership skill when . . .”5. When will you review your progress?

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