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A Radical Question Leading to Innovation

A Radical Question Leading to Innovation. A Radical Question. We don’t ask: “Are we doing things right?” We do ask “Are we doing the right things” to educate students for lives of leadership and service?. This Question Changes Everything. Employers seek people with skills and values

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A Radical Question Leading to Innovation

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  1. A Radical QuestionLeading to Innovation

  2. A Radical Question • We don’t ask: “Are we doing things right?” • We do ask “Are we doing the right things” to educate students for lives of leadership and service?

  3. This Question Changes Everything • Employers seek people with skills and values • How, then, is leadership learned? • What, then, are: • The Center’s mission and values? • People? • Programs? • Student experiences? • Inputs, outputs, structure? • Outcomes?

  4. Skills Employers Seek • Ability to work in a team • Leadership • Communication skills (written) • Problem-solving skill • Strong work ethic • Analytical/quantitative skill • Communication skills (verbal) • Initiative Source: National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) 2012 Job Outlook Survey

  5. Skills Employers Seek “Nearly all employers agreed that ‘a job candidate’s demonstrated capacity to think critically, communicate clearly, and solve complex problemsismore important than their undergraduate major’ (Hart Research Associates, 2013).” Source: Liberal Education, Spring 2013

  6. Values Employers Seek "I have recruited all over the United States and I can honestly say the students at Hope that I interviewed and hired are second to none!  The Center’s students’ integrity, ethics and moral compass align with the Dow’s long standing philosophies and attitudes that attract the top performers in the industry.” Keith A. PotterAccount Executive The Dow Chemical Company

  7. Values Employers Seek "Hope College has created a great environment…, attracting and developing students for the real world. The emphasis on servant leadership, entrepreneurial spirit and the awareness of giving backto our local communities is what I believe stands out the most…. It is these types qualities combined with  a personal touch…that makes Hope students a great fit with our company.” Pat Dawson Senior Vice President The Dow Chemical Company Dennis R.J. Geppert/Holland Sentinel Staff

  8. How Leadership is Learned “Preparation for leadership does not come from books. Books sometimes give you an insight or an outline, but real preparation consists of hard work and wandering in the desert, much feedback, much forgiveness, and the yeast of failure.” --Max DePree

  9. The Center’s Mission To enable students to experience their faithful leadership potential by engaging them in projects that apply in the real world what they learn in the classroom.

  10. The Center’s Values • Entrepreneurial • Student-led and Mentored • Applied and Consequential • Integrated and Interdisciplinary • Community-engaged and Sustainable • Transformational and Transitional

  11. The Center’s Practitioners

  12. The Center’s Programs • Integrated Learning/LDRS courses • A Student Consulting Business • An Entrepreneurial Development Program

  13. Integrative Learning Experiences • LDRS 201: Service Learning • LDRS 231: Lean Start-up and Idea Pitch and Investor Pitch Competitions • LDRS 391: ParticipativeConsulting • LDRS 395: Internships • IDIS 495: Experiencing New Cultures (Alaska wilderness)

  14. Student Consulting Experiences

  15. Entrepreneurial Development Experiences

  16. The Center’s Inputs • Working in teams • Solving real-world problems • Assisted by a Coach and Mentor

  17. The Center’s Outputs • Students are more aware of what they are capable of and their calling. • They have more authentic confidence. • They have a better understanding of faithful leadership. • They are more skilledcommunicators, learnersandcreative, critical thinkers.

  18. The Center’s Model • Working in Teams • Solving Real-world Problems • Assisted by a coach and mentor through… Integrated Learning Student Consulting Entrepreneurial Development Other Opportunities leads to students being… • More aware of capabilities and calling • More confident • More equipped for faithful leadership • More skilled at communicating, learning, and creative critical thinking

  19. The Center’s Outcomes “Virgil, Thanks again for all your guidance with Lindsay (and Steve VanderVeen also). I still can’t believe how progressive and effective your program is. I think the program really prepares people like Lindsay to really WOW job interviewers, such as she did at Dow.” -- Lance Allward "This experience was life changing." -- Russell Fyfe

  20. What Makes Us Grow? “Now faith is the confidence of what we hope for and assurance of what we do not see (Hebrews 11:1).

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