1. Dr. Jim Street & Sarah Schemmel VALUES DRIVEN COMMITMENT

2. 4.87 6.26 4.90 6.12 VALUES CLARITY YOU COMMIT TO WHAT FITS High Low High Clarity of Personal Values Clarity of Organizational Values

3. Activity: Values Clarification VALUES CLARITY LISTEN TO YOUR INNER SELF

4. Check your top-priority values, and make sure they fit with your life and your vision for yourself.  Do these values make you feel good about yourself?  Are you proud of your top five values?  Would you be comfortable and proud to tell your values to people you respect and admire?  Do these values represent things you would support, even if your choice isn't popular, and it puts you in the minority? SHOULD I REAFFIRM MY VALUES?

5. Activity: Illustrate your Organization VALUES CLARITY LISTEN TO YOUR INNER SELF

6. When you consider your values in decision making, you can be sure to keep your sense of integrity and what you know is right, and approach decisions with confidence and clarity. You'll also know that what you're doing is best for your current and future happiness and satisfaction. Making value-based choices may not always be easy. However, making a choice that you know is right is a lot less difficult in the long run.  See more at: http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTED_85.htm#st hash.GTkQSXVN.dpuf VALUES INTEGRITY

7.  Listen and observe your members  Encourage your members to explore their beliefs and values  Create a vision where your members can see their values ACTION STEPS

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9. Dr. Jim Street & Sarah Schemmel CRUCIAL CONVERSATIONS

10. Activity: What is your personal best leadership experience? PERSONAL POWER

11. BRICK WALLS TEST COMMITMENT

12.  Create Relationships  “Elephant In The Room”  Make Your Values Implicit and Explicit  Test Your Assumptions  Strategies  Timing is Key  Set Ground Rules First  Seek First to Understand, Then to be Understood  Keep Your Eye on the Goal: Explain, Clarify, Problem-Solve  Invent Options for Mutual Gain  Reaffirm Your Agreements TOOL BOX FOR CRUCIAL CONVERSATIONS Stephen R. Covey, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Covey, S. R. (2004). The 7 habits of highly effective people: Restoring the character ethic. New York: Free Press. http://www.princeton.edu/forbescollege/student-life/rooming/what-to-do/

13. “All significant and meaningful accomplishments involve adversity, difficulty, change, and challenge. No one ever got anything extraordinary done by keeping things the same. Risk, uncertainty, and hardships test us. You have to embrace the challenge, control what you can, and take charge of change to be successful in turbulent times. To deal with setbacks and to bounce back from mistakes, you need grit. You also need to find ways to learn from failure, knowing that it’s one of the best teachers you can have.” James M. Kouzes & Barry Z. Posner The Truth About Leadership THE TRUTH IS THAT CHALLENGE IS THE CRUCIBLE FOR GREATNESS