Recent Groups
REI Oklahoma - Leading Through Crisis
Over a period of a few months, this team has invested in their growth by digging into the 11 Perspective Principles of Turning Adversity into Advantage. They dove into the deep end on these topics to serve, encourage, and grow each other through all life has thrown at them over the last couple of years.
During our last session we built upon that foundation and worked on developing a vision of where they want to go using the Law of Navigation.
We started by defining reality, a leader’s first responsibility. Then we began to clarify their vision of how they want to grow and perform as a team.
DISC Leadership - Taco Casa
Congratulations to this amazing leadership team from Taco Casa Durant & Calera! The way they were able to take a step back and ask.. “What can I do differently to be more effective?” was so inspiring. I can’t adequately describe what it’s like to BE in the room with them week in and week out as they entered into the process of growth. Some of their biggest golden nuggets from DISC leadership were:
I am seeking to understand before trying to be understood.
I have learned to understand myself, understand others, and adapt my leadership to fit the needs of others.
I was able to see my leaders in a different light than what was portrayed to me.
I am more aware now of how others perceive me. With that awareness and with patience, I can become a visionary leader that communicates effectively.
The more sessions we went through, the more I understood about myself and my confidence grew in my role.
I viewed part of my personality style as a weakness. My big takeaway is I no longer view it as a weakness, but a strength in my leadership.
If you need them, you can't lead them effectively.
This process gave me the incentive to keep learning and to recognize that I am who God made me.
I take this and share it everywhere and hopefully it will help others as much as it helped me to become a better person.
DISC Leadership - GSCC
The amount of joy, laughter, deep thoughts, intentional changes, and emotional depth this group had as they grew together was inspiring. I am extremely proud of this group from The Good Shepherd Community Clinic, Inc. for the way they have taken themselves on and grown as a team.
Here are some of the takeaways captured from our time together:
- I realized that each person brings different levels of personality characteristics to the table, and it is my duty to be adaptable to that individual.
- I will continue to work on believing in myself. When I am confident, others will find it easier to believe in me as well.
- Clearer understanding of what makes us tick or ticks us off 🙂
- I am a square peg and that's okay.
- I realized that too much reasoning and overthinking can be counterproductive.
- Focusing more on understanding others than changing me.
- I was able to let go of past hurts from people who didn’t understand me and not be angry anymore.
- My applications throughout this process forced me to be intentional with my relationships. This resulted in a greater buy-in within my team.
- This course has allowed me to get a better appreciation for the team as a whole by understanding their motivations and hearts behind what they do.
- I have learned that other leadership styles can be just as effective.
- I am less frustrated and more patient as my awareness of others has grown.
- Able to BE WHO I AM and be okay with it versus trying to be who I am not.
Making Sense of Your People Puzzle - Murray State
What a fun day of growth with this group from Murray State College as we journeyed through understanding their personalities, making sense of their people puzzle, and diving deeper into their purpose/why so that they can work more effectively as a team. Here are some of their top takeaways from the day:
- Continue to grow in my awareness so that I can better view things from the perspectives of others.
- No one has a wrong personality. Understanding this was a personality assessment...not a test. Never put wrong in from of person.
- I am understanding more about myself, others, adapting, and evaluating how I should deliver something based upon how they would be able to receive it.
- I can choose to change myself, and when I change, everything will change for me. The first change is keeping my why the most important thing.
- My way of doing things is not the only right way of doing things. I now have the awareness that others will complete tasks differently than I would.
- To work at adapting to other personality preferences, we have to change, not change others.
- I am now conscientious of how others might misread me, my blind spots. I want to adapt my expectations of others and use the insights I gained during the session to build relationships with them.
- I need to work on being unoffendable by people who have more of a task focus versus people focus.
Becoming a Person of Influence - GSCC
It was a privilege to serve this team from Good Shepherd Community Clinic during our mastermind group around "Becoming a Person of Influence." I am so proud of how they took themselves on and purposefully engaged in this process of growth as they strive to live out their core values of love, respect, fight, resilience, and flexibility. Here are some of their top takeaways:
- Now that I have identified fear as one of the main barriers of understanding others, I am overcoming it. “Fear, you will not own me”
- I learned to see and understand others from their perspective instead of just jumping to judgement.
- By learning to ask and gain permission before giving advice, it has strengthened my relationships and created more respect.
- I have been empowered to stay positive and maintain a strong attitude toward the challenges I face. This growth stuff is hard, however, the outcomes are absolutely worth it.
- I learned that I can lead authentically in my strengths and gifts.
- Now that I have identified fear as one of the main barriers of understanding others, I am overcoming it. “Fear, you will not own me”
Computing Edge - Quarterly Retreat
