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Leadership Summit

My leadership summit meeting was very insightful.  I met with Lauren Newman and Sarah Caitlin Wheat and we discussed our ideas for leading group.  They encouraged me to start with a warmup activity that can also be linked to what we could close with in order to increase generalizability.  They helped me think of common tasks associated with care of pets and agreed that the pet Bingo would be a fun activity.

I helped them think of ideas as well.  Lauren needed help figuring out how exactly to plan her activity, so I encouraged her to assign people their own profile so they have a general idea of how to approach their activity.  I helped Sarah Caitlin plan her activity by telling her she should have group members discuss the areas they need improvement when doing their daily chores.  Having them write out a schedule can keep them accountable and provide a visual checklist of chores needed to be done.  Overall, the leadership summit was a helpful time to brainstorm ideas.

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  1. Professor SasseMarch 10, 2018 at 10:40 AM

    Yes Lauren, whatever it was that you did to prepare for your group, you should do that same thing again, because it was evident that you planned, and prepared when you facilitated your group. It was what I would call a smashing success! Not sure what role the Leadership summit played in that, but as I said, whatever prep work you did was quite evident! Thank you for this post.
    Professor Sasse

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