Exciting Day Two (Part 2)

So the blog wouldn't let me go down any farther so here is my blog continued

Be Empowering

• Everyone wants to have their best year ever! But do you really want to have the best year that you will ever have? What will next year be if this is your best year ever? The answer is not, even better, we tried that. 
• If our organizations haven't gotten any better after we've left, we didn't lead well.
• We need to Empower, others to take our place after we are gone.
• And in order to empower someone else, we need to metaphorically or literally, give up the microphone, and let someone else take the lead.
• And something that he said that made sense, when you leave your position after your term, you should be there as an advisor, for the person who succeeds you! It isn't all about a good transition period, there always should be an open line of communication. 

Be Rational

• Know your members!
• Know their strengths and weaknesses. Don't put the really social kid in the back of the room where he doesn't get time to talk to anyone. You will piss people off that way.
• There are two questions that you should know about everyone in the organization.

1. Why did you join our organization in the first place?
2. What does a successful experience look like to you?

• And catch your members doing something right! Instead of always calling them out when they do stupid shit, let them know they appreciate the good things they do, or they won't be motivated to do those good things anymore!
• Are you willing to fight for what you believe?

Be Optimistic 

• There was a story that he told us about a Captain of a ship. His ship was about to be overrun by pirates and the captain told his first mate, grab me my sword and my red shirt. The first mate did so and the Captain fought valiantly and warded off the pirates with his crew. Later on when they were all celebrating their victory then men said "captain, we understand why you wanted your sword, but why the red shirt?" The captain replied with "I wore the red shirt, in case I was wounded during the battle, no one would see the blood stains and be discouraged. You would all keep fighting as if nothing was wrong, because as far as you knew, there was nothing wrong." The men all thought this was an amazing thing for him to do and that even when they were about to be overrun, the captain had to keep up, even if it was an illusion, the optimism so that his crew would follow. The story goes on to be more inappropriate, but I'll end it there.
• He also went over briefly the ADKAR system. I even have to look it up because we didn't go in depth. But they go as follows:

1. Awareness
2. Desire
3. Knowledge
4. Ability 
5. Reinforcement

This man, was one of the best motivational leadership speakers I have ever seen. And I want anyone who reads this, to personally hold me accountable to bringing him to campus. I legitimately will not stop until this man comes to our campus. He literally changed my life, in one hour.


Side Note!
There was a Carnival at the end of the night and I have the record for BSU on the mechanical bull at staying on for 36 seconds!

Day two was exhausting, but so much fun. I cannot wait to go back to BSU and do all of these things that have changed my life, and hopefully will change yours.