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A workshop for sustainability officers to focus on personal leadership, identify strengths, map networks, and draft personal leadership plans for campus sustainability.
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Leveraging Leadership for Campus SustainabilityAASHE Sustainability Officers Workshop Jenna Ringelheim, Environmental Leadership Program Jesse Pyles, Unity College
Objectives • Focus on you • Identify strengths • Map your network • Introduce useful tools • Draft PLP
Facilitators Jesse PylesSustainability Coordinator Unity College Jenna Ringelheim National Program Coordinator Environmental Leadership Program
Agenda • Introductions • Elevator Pitch • Creative Session I: Our Influence • Personal Leadership Plan • Break • Creative Session II: Resource Mapping • Creative Session III: Mission/Vision • Gallery Walk • AASHE Survey
Ground Rules • Bring it. This is an active session. • Think about yourself for once. • No blockers. Every idea is a good idea. • Focus on your strengths. • Use each other. • You’re all facilitators.
Elevator Pitch • Give your Institution/Sustainability Overview • What are you REALLY good at? • How are your strengths related to achievement photos? • Small groups of 4 • 4-5 minutes each
Creative Session I: Our Influence “How can sustainability officers best influence change in higher education?” • Individual post-it brainstorm (3 min) • Group Share (10 min) • Organize and Iterate (12 min) • Scribe summarize on flip chart
Creative Session I: Our Influence The Question: In What Ways Can We (Sustainability Officers) best influence change in higher education? • What is our impact? • What should higher ed. look like?
Personal Leadership Plan • Structure for reflection and intention. • A tool for assessment. • Integrated personal and professional aspirations. • Working document. “[w]e encourage you to challenge yourself. Think about creative new ways to approach your work, push yourself to work across boundaries . . . or propose strategies for engaging new networks of people in more productive ways.”
PLP Framework • Personal Statement Mission / vision statement • Personal and Professional Goals • Resources • Constituency/Diversity • Challenges • Milestones • Happiness
Green Light. Delight. Ignite. What efforts in your work are: • Green Light: Immediately actionable • Delight: Personally satisfying • Ignite: Professional game changers
Creative Session II:Resource Mapping Brainstorm: • Trust • Communication • Advice Individual Sketch: 15 minutes Group Share: 5-10 minutes each
Creative Session III:Mission/Vision What do YOU want to get done in the next: • Two weeks? • Two months? • Two years?
Creative Session III:Mission/Vision Craft your own Personal Statement What will satisfy you in your work? How does it meet your own goals?
Questions? Environmental Leadership Program http://www.elpnet.org Unity College http://www.unity.edu
Thanks! ELP Networking Meet-up. Tuesday at 4:45. Rm. 511 A Environmental Leadership Program http://www.elpnet.org Unity College http://www.unity.edu