Presenter:
Karinda Barrett, Director, Center for Teaching, Learning, and Leadership - Tallahassee Community College
Are you ready to lead? What is in your way? How can you create a pathway to leadership? What will it take for people to follow you and why do you want to lead? During this engaging and interactive session, participants built a pathway to leadership and created a plan that would take them further along their leadership journey
2. Outcomes for Session
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Inspire your leadership
Determine why you want to lead
Overcome barriers to leading
Identify support
Focus on your knowledge, skills and abilities
Take the next step
4. Stand by Your Quote
Pick the quote that has meaning to you and stand
by it.
Talk to the others who are standing by the quote.
•What meaning does the quote have for you?
•Why did you pick it?
•How does it help you think about your leadership?
5. Why Do You Want to Lead?
• List three reasons you want to lead others.
6. Why Do You Want to Lead?
• List three reasons you want to lead others.
• Turn to your neighbor and share your reasons.
7. What is Keeping You From
Leading?
• Write one barrier on a piece of colored paper.
8. What is Keeping You From
Leading?
• Write one barrier on a
piece of colored paper.
• Fold the paper into a
paper airplane.
9. What is Keeping You From
Leading?
• Write one barrier on a piece of colored paper.
• Fold the paper into a paper airplane.
• When I say go, fly your airplane and pick up
other airplanes. Keep flying airplanes until I say
stop.
11. What is Keeping You From
Leading?
• Open the airplane
you picked up.
• Read the barrier.
• Think of one way
to overcome the
barrier.
12. Mentors and Sponsors
• What is the difference
between a mentor and a
sponsor?
• What qualities do you want in
a mentor?
• What qualities do you want in
a sponsor?
• Which do you need right
now?