Session 1 October 2008
Assignments
Readings
- Participant's Guide - Chapter 1: Know Yourself
- Participant's Guide - Chapter 2: Dimensions of Leadership
- Purposeful Lives: Guiding Life Cycle Transitions: A Talking Paper from Jan Hively: Hively_purposeful_lives.pdf
- Link to Marshall Ganz's Web module on organizing.
Professor Ganz is a long-time organizer; a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; and a principal of Harvard's Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations. Review the introduction material and the section about Leadership. - "What Makes a Leader?" by Daniel Goleman WhatMakesLeader.pdf
Exercises
- Participant's Guide - Lifework (p. 15)
Journal Topic
Who are the leaders in your life that you have admired? Why?
Class Notes
What are you looking for in the class?
Better engage folks in “pre-retirement”
Learn leadership skills
Develop leadership skills
Learn what kind of leader I am
Specific leadership styles and how to use them
Understand what leadership is
Learn how to collaborate with multiple organizations
Redefine/refine purpose
Help people find ways to get others engaged
Help seniors identify “own” richness
Put form to my ideas
Come up with common language
Learn about patterns of organizations and how leadership works
Learn how to produce measurable outcomes
Looking at transitions
Renewed focus – reinventing use of leadership skills
How to bring past skills to bear on current needs
Making a difference
Empowering others
Taking a stand
Teamwork
Communicating well, matching passions and skills
Collaboration and belief in outcomes
Developing talents
Building relationships, maximizing potential
Listening and being heard
Sustainability
What is vital aging? (Jan Hively’s presentation)
Engaged
Fun
Adventure
Freedom
Alive
Connected
Discovery
Productivity
Active
Worthwhile
Enthusiastic