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Creating a Professionally Responsible Culture Through Peer Leadership

Learn how peer leadership builds a responsible culture, central concepts, reaching millennials, ethical messages, and practical skills for success in school, work, and life. Explore career tragedies and strategies for handling challenges effectively.

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Creating a Professionally Responsible Culture Through Peer Leadership

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  1. Creating a Professionally Responsible Culture Through Peer Leadership Willow Misty Parks Graduate Assistant Anderson School of Management University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM

  2. It’s About the Audience • Active and cooperative • Short cases • Emotional impact/real people • Analysis modeled practical application • Emotional regulation and self reflection • Anticipating consequences and type of challenges

  3. Peer Leadership • Builds relationships • Creates sense of community • Adds credibility • Can be powerful and pervasive • Introduces Professional Responsiblity as a foundation for success in school, at work, in life.

  4. University Based Example • Approached—meet students where they are. • Embedded in many contexts, courses, workshops and experiences • Explore real-world dilemmas • Provide concepts and tools • Research-based • Peer leadership and ownership of concepts

  5. Central Concepts • Why things go wrong • How things go right • How to recognize problems • Building professional responsibility through practice • Skills for responding: decision-making framework, personal scripts Know and live your values!

  6. Reaching Millennials • Not about work ethic • Often question of values • Reaching them where they are

  7. Messages that Resonate! • A lot of smart people in the world • The successful and the ones that achieve are the ones with the “whole package”

  8. Apple or Barrel? • Incentives and pressures can encourage poor practice, but does not change personal responsibility.

  9. Work on Good Habits • Know and articulate your values • Ask questions • Read signals, be informed (rules, codes, laws, professional context….) • Develop personal scripts for predictable problems • Have disputes professionally

  10. YPSG Career Tragedies • Temptation • Rationalization • Ambition and overconfidence • Group, peer pressure/pressure from boss • Entitlement, sense of • Deception (of yourself, of others) • Incrementalism • Embarrassment • Stupid systems

  11. Skills • Decision-making framework • Asking questions • Having disputes professionally • Personal scripts • Anticipating problems; preparing for them

  12. Conclusion • See the Young Professional’s Survival Guide for more great information.

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