Plan for the last session of the Cebu Leadership Class on January 9, 2016

'Quamplurimi et quam aptissimi" (As many as possible of the very best)

Rizal Philippines
December 23, 2015

Two plus more weeks before the final session of Cebu Leadership class.

Here is the plan:

AM session:

About Thinking/Decision Making

       Creativity and Mind Mapping

        Personal Mastery

        Managerial Tools for Decision Making

       Critical and Analytical Thinking and Conflict Resolution

Self Awareness

        Socrates and Self Awareness

        Buddhism and Self Awareness

       Emptying your cup

More on leadership

     Source of leader's power (Power and Leadership)

    Servant Leadership

 PM Session

    AVP Presentation  14 in all x 5 minutes   ( 1hour plus)

   Closing 

   3 to 5 reaction speeches by student

   Certificates of recognition and appreciation

   Song for Mary as final activity  Song for Mary with Lyrics





   

The Cebu Regis Leadership Team Building was woven around the 4 Pillars of Leadership of Chris Lowney

'Quamplurimi et quam aptissimi" (As many as possible of the very best)

Rizal Philippines
December 15, 2015

                                            The instructions

                                 The marshamallow Eiffel tower of fettucini rods, the winner the tallest
                                  built by none engineers (the team that had an engineer had a collapsed
                                  tower hahahaha) Congratulations.  Teams really produce results


While other team building activities were simply conducted as as a series of discrete events, last Saturday team building was woven around the stories about 4 pillars of leadership of Chris Lowney - self awareness, love, ingenuity, and heroism.  (The MM team building was built around 6 na katitikan)  This is a way of further reinforcing the  leadership lesson of this course.

The post recalls that the following were conducted:

1.  Cheer leading

2.  The tallest tower built with fettucini rods and with marshmallow tower

3.  The my glass overflows with paper clips

4.  Reflection on who you are and what the significant others really think about you

4.  The reflection on chicken a la carte and the commitment letter

Innovation in teaching the Leadership Course

'Quamplurimi et quam aptissimi" (As many as possible of the very best)

Ateneo Professional Schools
Makati City
November 5, 2015

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                                        Team building in the class room

This author is very elated and happy that he has contributed albeit in a small way to the development/improvement of the Leadership course. He finished two classes all ready; is conducting a third one.  By next week, he will have two other courses in the province There are various innovation that he has  added into the course:

1.  Employment of info tech and web site for the posting of learning materials, for the forum (comments) class participation, for the class. Student leaders become more well versed and less fearful of the information technology.

2.  Call to Arms speeches.   This  is an essential part of Leadership development.   The ability to communicate to the constituents, in a convincing, rousing, emotional, manner is a key competence that must be developed in leaders.  For many, speech making is a fearful event, or sometimes an ordeal

3.  The movie synopsis, life story, and JCampbell analysis is an innovation,  Three parallel analysis is made so the Leader becomes fully aware that "ang buhay ay parang sine"  As we become aware of our life, we become fully aware of others so that we can engage and relate to them in meaningful way.  Telling stories, even movies is leadership.  Leadership is not what we just tell, even more than what we do, but who we are as we reveal this to others through story telling of our life.  Now we have even a greater medium:   photos, movie maker, video, Daily Motion, and You tube.

Sharing their life story by uploading this in third party sites is a fearful thought  though to many, but as a leader you must be thick skinned enough to reveal yourself to others.  As a leader, your life becomes available for the public scrutiny.  You and your life must be able to stand up to that scrutiny and visibility.

4.  Adding Servant Leadership as a material.

5.  Adding Filipino leaders as materials:   Andres Bonifacio, Heneral Luna, Rizal, Ninoy Aquino Filipino leadership traits.

6.  Adding the Chinese President Xi Jinping leadership, his rise to power, and why China being led by him acts that way. And other contemporary world leaders  like Brazilian  President whose country is in a big economic difficulty

7.  Use of power in leadership.  Power and leadership go together. How do you employ, and why is power is necessary when you are a leader of a big group? This is explored in depth, and

8   Buddhism, Socrates and self awareness.

Others:

9.  Team building activities within and outside the campus.  I believe that team building is essential part of Leadership training.   Team building activities to sharpen communication skills, team engagement, problem solving and strategizing MUST BE PART OF LEADERSHIP TRAINING. Parang kulang, bitin pag wala.

10  Employing songs like Greatest Love of All, This Girl is on Fire to fire up motivate the leaders, and having games in the classroom related to this.

11. Making sure that the student leaders practice Leadership in Action, by having class secretary, by having groups co manage the class, by having the committees figure out/plan and implement other class activities as team building.   Persons/group are assigned to manage food logistics, because the canteen closes early

12.  Publishing photos of the  class activities in this site and at FB pages. We encourage class participation outside the class room by having them make comments on the posts

13. Giving prizes and recognition for deeds that need recognition and reinforcement, like to  winners of call to arms speeches, winners and debate with small gifts like candies, Japanese home products items.

14 Opening the class with a debate to have people thinking about leadership in a deep way.

Will there be more?  You bet

                             Gab makes sure that we are not hungry and not foolish

These items are over over and above  course requirement to deliver mostly Ignatian leadership, Chris Lowney to Student Leaders of this course.

This is spurred by magis - Heroism on my part, ie to make this course much much better under my own volition passion and drive.

Self Awareness Thoughts from Buddha

'Quamplurimi et quam aptissimi" (As many as possible of the very best)

Rizal Philippines
November 3, 2015

We have to expand our horizon on self awareness.   It involves philosophical, psychological and practical analysis of self -  our thoughts, emotions

Now we can go towards East and understand more how does one become more self aware.  From Slideshare:

Self Awareness from kumar mahi


The four noble truths

Dharma, the 8 fold path:

The purpose of inclusion of Buddhism and self awareness is not to understand and make a study of Buddhism but to use the concepts and process the way of Buddhism in self awareness.  The ability to control your pain your emotion is an important aspect of self awareness

Buddhism and self awareness - did Leadership borrow this from the Buddhists?

'Quamplurimi et quam aptissimi" (As many as possible of the very best)

Rizal Philippines
November 3, 2015

From Tiny Buddha

Effective Mind Control and Developing Self Awareness

                                   Do your best, leave the bad behind and  move forward

                                        


BBC on Buddhism
In the BBC feature this week, they had Socrates and Buddha both independently arriving at the concept of self awareness to growth (and later Rene Descartes perhaps)  In a deep thoughtful conclusion, Buddha says there is no perfect self, as the external forces constantly change.The external forces/factors shape the self   Our passion are the causes of our pain and we must constantly be aware of our emotions and even denying them to avoid pain

But self awareness involves more than examen Buddhist reflection involves three concepts:

from this post:

Self victimization

Self empowerment

Self awareness - it involves understanding our thought and emotions and redirecting this towards more positive direction

Here is a copy paste from

Self-awareness includes:

• Understanding our emotions—what we’re feeling and what triggered it—so we can effectively work through and transform our emotional responses (instead of using them to justify unhealthy choices)
• Recognizing our destructive thought patterns so we can redirect them
• Tuning into what’s going on in our bodies so we can learn from it and access our intuition
• Noticing our behavioral patterns and habits so that we can make adjustments to change negative ones
• Understanding our beliefs, assumptions, and expectations, and how they influence what we choose to do
• Accepting that we are responsible for our actions—even if we developed certain patterns in response to events from our past

The fundamental difference between self-awareness and self-victimization, when it pertains to acknowledging we’ve been hurt: Self-awareness is about observing our response to what happened; self-victimization is about feeding into the story of what happened.

This isn’t always easy to do. Sometimes the mere act of remembering something painful can bring up all kinds of old feelings. It helps if we learn to immediately redirect our thoughts to a positive, empowering affirmation.

This means that next time I find myself questioning whether the other person really has best interests at heart, when I have no reason to believe they don’t, I can tell myself something like this:

I give people I love the benefit of the doubt. I release my instinctive emotional response from the deepest root cause and do my part to create happy relationships.

In changing my thoughts, I can change my feelings and then effectively redirect my actions.

This process can apply to all kinds of unhealthy relationship patterns that stem from former relationships, but it requires us to work at developing self-awareness.

One way we can do this is by journaling about our feelings and triggers—if, for example, you tend to feel mistrusting, or defensive, or angry when specific events occur—and then come up with affirmations to use when we get caught up in those patterns.

Some examples of situations and affirmations:

If you frequently mistrust someone solely because someone else formerly abused your trust, you could use this affirmation when those old feelings arise: 

This is a new relationship. I release my instinctive emotional response from the deepest root cause, and accept that I can change it and improve my relationship by trusting.

If you frequently feel guilty in your relationship, in large part because you were emotionally abused in a former one, you could use this affirmation when those old feelings arise (assuming you’re in a healthy relationship now):

I choose not to blame myself. I release my instinctive emotional response from the deepest root cause, and free myself from shame and self-judgment. 

Whatever the pattern, we can challenge it and eventually change it by changing our thoughts and beliefs.

If we’re willing to be self-aware, we can empower ourselves, and transform our relationships and in our lives in the process.

Two great, related resources:

• Self-Awareness Affirmations
• Healing Affirmations

 Photo by nattu

Sharing MM Enneagram Results by LEADER JUSTIN QUILON

Hi Prof. Jorge,

Good Day! Here's my Enneagram results.

I am most likely a type 3.

Taking wings into account, you seem to be a 3w2.

Type 3 - 11.7 - Acheiver
Type 5 - 9.3 - Investigator
Type 1 - 9 - Reformer
Type 9 - 9 - Peacemaker
Type 2 - 8.7
Type 8 - 7.3
Type 4 - 1

Wing 3w2 - 16.1 - Achiever w Helper
Wing 2w3 - 14.6 - Helper w Achiever
Wing 9w1 - 13.5 - Peacemaker w Reformer
Wing 1w9 - 13.5
Wing 1w2 - 13.4
Wing 2w1 - 13.2
Wing 9w8 - 12.7
Wing 3w4 - 12.2
Wing 8w9 - 11.8
Wing 5w6 - 11
Wing 5w4 - 9.8
Wing 8w7 - 8.5
Wing 4w3 - 6.9

Wing 4w5 - 5.7

I am a type 3 and taking wings into account I am a Wing 3w2.    

Type 3s are Achievers. Here are some descriptions about 3s that I feel characterize me:

Focused on the presentation of success, to attain validation   

                                                                                                                                    

People of this personality type need to be validated in order to feel worthy; they pursue success and want to be admired. They are frequently hard working, competitive and are highly focused in the pursuit of their goals. They know how to present themselves, practical, and driven. They are good networkers who know how to rise through the ranks. But, while 3s do tend to succeed in whatever realm they focus their energies, they are often secretly afraid of being or becoming "losers."

Threes can sometimes find intimacy difficult. Their need to be validated for their image often hides a deep sense of shame about who they really are, a shame they unconsciously fear will be unmasked if another gets too close. Threes are often generous and likable, but are difficult to really know.

More on self awareness from Socrates

'Quamplurimi et quam aptissimi" (As many as possible of the very best)

September 26, 2015

The thesis of this Leadership subject is that Leadership starts from self awareness. (Knowing oneself  One of those who have quotes on self awareness is Socrates (One wonders if the present leadership of Greece ever read about Socrates - those who acted queerly on the Greece debt problem.  How about the general populace of Greece)  If they did they would not be in this kind of mess

From Life Hacks - Quotes from Socrates that are related to self awareness

Understanding Enneagram

'Quamplurimi et quam aptissimi" (As many as possible of the very best)

September 25, 2015

For next week, as part of self awareness, we begin to study Enneagram.  One week after we should be able to take the Enneagram Test, and upload the result for sharing with the rest of the Class.

Here is the link to the 9 types and some samples of Enneagram Test Results.:

Taking the Enneagram Test

Example of Enneagram Test Result

Enneagram Institute

Wheel of Leadership

'Quamplurimi et quam aptisimi" (As many as possible of the very best)

This lecturer improved the drawing made last Friday. The wheel summarizes what has been discussed in the class.  The call to leadership stems from the inner authentic self.   Motivation emanates from within, who you are.  This is related to Emotional Intelligence -  the ability to motivate and regulate self and as a result the ability to motivate others too.

At the start of the course, we had a debate, are leaders born, made, or are they transformed by the situation or crisis?    A vacancy, a leadership vacuum creates a need for the leader, and whoever is there fill that deepest need.  It is a never ending question that we all try to answer academically or in practice.

Then we had various assignments:  defining moment which is under the idea that leader are transformed by events, by trials, by failures in life.  Then we had enneagram and genogram under the title that leaders are born.  We went through the readings because we also think that leaders can be made by education and training.  The various group activities in the class highlighted the idea, especially team building and unstructured group activities.   These games can make leaders(?)  (Why are schools many HR doing a lot of these)

In the future sessions, we will discuss about advocacies external motivation for leaders.

The arrows around the circle that we journey towards being a better leader.  Through spiritual exercises, through reflection, we can discover, by looking at the mirror we can be better me and better leader.  IT IS ALL ABOUT BEING BETTER LEADER

Video clips for 4th day session

'Quamplurimi et quam aptisimi" (As many as possible of the very best)

Some of video presentations for Friday:

1.  Opening prayer:

Sino ako (a reflection on self awareness)





2.  Man on the mirror

What can you do to this messed up world?

'Quamplurimi et quam aptisimi" (As many as possible of the very best)

Dear Leaders:

Every day that you watch CNN, read your papers you learn of ever increasing depressing news:

1.  Greek debt crisis;
2. China stock market meltdown;
3.  Calamities in ______
4.  Drought in North Korea and West USA
5. ISIS
6  The suicide bombers in Kabul and Cairo
7.   Terrorist attack in France
etc etc ad nauseam.

What do we, what do you do?

I received a text message from Text Ministry:    (Meron na palang ganoon)

God said build a better world.  I said how?
The world is so messed up there is nothing I can do.
But God said build a better you and "influence others"

I have forwarded this text message to some of the leaders all ready

This author thinks that we are doing this in the leadership class. First self awareness, self mastery (as we discover our leadership journey, self tests (enneagram) and life story.And then influencing others through our good examples (action) and if possible through words.  This is leadership in words and  action

The Learning Agreement is a good starting point for self awareness.

I had three purposes for asking for the learning agreement

1.  To know more, gain more information from the student in a much deeper fashion than what a class card provides.

2.  To gain access his thoughts and aspirations: what he needs to learn, and the reward expectation (since class in a grade game)

3.  For this class, the 5 year plan and the strength  and weakness analysis are start of self awareness, are cues for self awareness for examen

Let me me make some comments:

Key points in Leadership for Day 1 Session

1  Discovering Authentic Leadership by  George,  Simms et al

    You must devote time to self discovery and awareness before we devote time to inspiring and motivating others.  (Daniel Goleman  -  EQ is the ability to motivate self and inspire others.. What drives you?

    An authentic leader:

    1.  has passion for purpose

    2.  practice values consistently

    3.  lead with hearts and head

    4.  self discipline to achieve results

    5.  has meaningful relationship

They have understanding of their life. Their life is not their life;  it is their story.

The 75 members of Stanford GSB advisory council when asked what is the most important trait for leaders to develop, they say it is self awareness. (Even in Execution book by Larry Bossidy,the key to execution, the last one is personal awareness)

Do you want to be a business leader? Who wants to be a millionaire

Habits that you need to be a millionaire.  Character, personal awareness

7 Habits of Self-made Millionaires from AES International