leadership – Vlogٷ Mon, 08 Jan 2024 22:19:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 /wp-content/uploads/2019/05/cropped-fav-icon-B-32x32.png leadership – Vlogٷ 32 32 Recent Updates With Vlogٷ 2019 /recent-updates-with-boldleaders-2/ /recent-updates-with-boldleaders-2/#respond Fri, 20 Dec 2019 19:02:03 +0000 /?p=7155 As 2019 comes to a close, here are the current happenings at Vlogٷ. Find a way to participate and plug in below!
  1. During the last two years our Bold Fellows program has done incredible work around the world. This program open to past participants and other stakeholders who are working on (or want to develop) social impact projects within their community. To date the Fellows have worked with over 31,000 people! Keep an eye on our Facebook page and in newsletters to hear more and more updates and reports from the Bold Fellows.
  2. As you can tell, we continue to upgrade and maintain our website! Be sure to investigate our three call to action items: For the Workplace; For Educators, and; Mentoring. Each has free products/curriculum to download as well as unique newsletters.
  3. We are marketing a new product that we have been using for the last 15 years and now want to make available for individuals and school and other youth organizations. The Elementals: Actions for the Practice of Life could be a very timely for schools that are working on SEL competencies but have lots of other things on their plate. We have a Companion Guide for Educators as well that offers integration ideas and gives more details. However, they are not just for schools! Our design process including prototyping with 50 diverse individuals and they all found them useful in their own lives. Check them out here!
  4. We created the Vlogٷ Institute and the Minding the Gap Master Class – an online e-learning course that is for anyone working with groups: teachers, managers, facilitators, coaches, mentors, etc. The course is only $200 and is offered in two options: a one-time download of all the content that you investigate at your own pace or a scheduled 6 week Social Learning class where you receive the content week-by-week and discuss it with other participants during a weekly recorded video chat. The fourth class just completed and we are really excited going forward to work with more!
  5. We continued to facilitate and enhance a juvenile diversion program in Nebraska that impacts new groups of 20+ teens/month. We have worked with 1000+ students in the last three years. The program builds off our Platforms by creating environments to build self-agency. This is significant because most diversion programs have a tough time getting away from the “I am in trouble and need to just get through this to clear my record” mindset.
  6. Mentoring:While we have been working intensively with a variety of mentoring organizations since 1998, it has not been until recently that we worked to streamline our materials and processes in order to offer a more coherent series of trainings, program designs, curriculum and contextual work. Vlogٷ Co-Director Michael Donahue recently presented a Ted-style talk and two workshops on some of our material at a Mentoring Colorado conference. Give us a call to learn more and keep an eye on the website as we offer more glimpses.

Whew! Of course there is more but those are some aspects of our recent work. Keep tabs through our newsletter if you are not signed up yet and reach out to let us know what you need or simply tell us how you are in the Comments section below.

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Reflection Prompts For Leading Groups /reflection-prompts-leading/ /reflection-prompts-leading/#respond Fri, 20 Dec 2019 18:46:03 +0000 /?p=7151

Introduction

Reflection Prompts for Leading is one of several tools and processes you can be trained in through the Minding the Gap Master Class – an online, on-demand course from Vlogٷ that uses the Framework for Availability to help leaders, teachers, facilitators and coaches create Relational Environments with groups that naturally build learning, participation and collaboration. We offer the prompts below as a free introduction to the course. They are an example of similar tools we give that take advantage of the growing knowledge of neuroscience and the way human beings interact with the world.

All the tools in the class are designed to cause availability. Any leader who can help people be more available will see a significant increase in human performance. We have seen this work in the classroom, in workplace teams and in countless community groups and other diverse settings where people work together.

When Someone IS Available...

They are...

Open, Receptive
Considering
Adaptable
Willing
Tuned in and aware
Future oriented
Connected
Responsive

When Someone IS NOT Available...

They are...

Closed/Guarded
Distracted/Easily Preoccupied
Distant
Reactive
Not able to listen well
Limited view of the future
Risk-averse
Quick to blame

Creating environments where people are more available increases their ability to participate, learn and collaborate – key elements of human performance and achievement. An easy and high impact way to do this is to first cause availability in yourself. That is where the Reflection Prompts For Leaders will help!

Why Do The Prompts Work?

Have you ever worked with a group and been caught off-guard by logistic issues you did not plan for? Or have you had your agenda ‘blow up’ when a tangent issue took the focus off your main outcomes? Maybe you have had your enthusiasm and love for what you were doing disappear in frustration while you dealt with all the tiny details? We know what each of those situations feels like and the impact they can have on you achieving your objectives. We developed the Reflection Prompts For Leaders to balance the doing AND the being of working with a group. The prompts help ground you in the reality of your task while also creating a context that helps you keep sight of the larger view that often gets lost. This organizes your work while keeping it meaningful: a great pathway to building availability for yourself and others.

The Reflection Prompts For Leaders work in any situation where you are working with a group: classrooms, workshops, team discussions, staff meetings, community groups – you name it! We suggest you “put pen to paper” and write out the prompts, along with your answers. At first it will take some time to answer them well: take the time necessary and you will find they are a valuable preparation tool. Eventually you will get to the point where you can answer them swiftly and naturally in your head.

Reflection Prompts for Leaders Working With Groups

(Deeper descriptions of the prompts are accessible through a pdf download below)

Prompt #1

What are the 2 or 3 main outcomes that MUST arise for this to be a success?

Drilling down to the essential targets focuses your frame and diminishes distractions. Use this part of the tool to hone in on the essence of your work. Other things may be achieved, but this question compels you to declare what cannot be left out.

Prompt #2

What must I keep my eye on?

As you begin to answer this question, first pay attention to those things that if they are not managed, the whole work would be in jeopardy. While there may be countless things to “keep your eye on”, asking this question orients you to the micro and macro landscape of your time with the group.

Prompt #3

What is profound about this?

This question is purposefully evocative. It is very difficult to answer from a doing disposition. It places you in a disposition of being and availability. This question helps provide a necessary reminder about what is underneath your work. Why is not just important, but profoundly important?

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