1. Dr. Boleman,
Centra is DOWN!
from Jill Hughson –
9:30 am, 11/6/12
YIKES

2. Being
Purposefully
Positive
Dr. Chris Boleman
Texas 4-H and Youth Development Program
Director
cboleman@ag.tamu.edu
979/845-1211

3. Plan for Today
• Some activities you can do back home
• Some leadership stuff
– Motivating Yourself
– Positivity is Contagious
– Staying focused with the naysayers
– Return the favor – tell someone
they are doing good.

6. The Power of
Positive Thinking
• A positive mind anticipates
happiness, joy, health and a
successful outcome of every
situation and action.
"Most folks are about as happy as
they make up their minds to be."
Abraham Lincoln

8. Staying Focused
• Tennis Ball Exercise
• Place in groups
• Ask to pass the ball around
• While speaking names
• Repeat, change it up
• Add to group
• Put somebody in the middle to
district
When complete, remind them that the goal never
changed. You may have been distracted, but the goal
is still the same.

9. Anger is an
acid that
destroys the
vessel in
which it is
stored!
Mark Twain
Mark Twain

10. Maxwell, John
Maxwell, John
(unpublished)
(unpublished)
5. PINNACLE
Respect
People follow because of who you are
and what you represent
4. PEOPLE DEVELOPMENT
Reproduction
People follow because of what you have done for them
3. PRODUCTION
Results
People follow bc of what you have done for the organization
2. PERMISSION
Relationships
People follow you because they want to
1. POSITION
Rights
People follow you because they have to

11. It Starts with YOU!!!
• The Secret of Success
is Determined by
YOUR OWN
AGENDA!!!
– John Maxwell

12. #1 Law of Intentionality
• Growth Doesn’t Just Happen
–You have to grow on purpose
–You make a choice to grow
–The choice you make – MAKES
YOU!
We have the tendency to want to
We have the tendency to want to
change circumstances, NOT US
change circumstances, NOT US

13. SATISFACTION!!!!
• Autonomy
=
• Complexity
• Connection between effort
and reward
Gladwell, M. (2008). Outliers.
Hatchette Book Group: New
York, NY

14. What makes
teams successful?

15. Favorite Quotes from Miracle
• You pull on that jersey, you represent yourself
and your teammates; and the name on the
front, is a heck of alot more important, than the
one on the back.
• You just focus on your own game! There’s
enough there to keep you busy for awhile.
• Win, lose, or tie, you're gonna play like a
champion.

17. Components of Leadership
• Inspiring the vision of the organization
• Leaders must be a designer – of the
organization
• Leader must have a personal and universal
purpose
• Teach subordinates about purpose and
structure
• Leaders generate and manage creative
tension
P. Senge, 5th Discipline

18. • Leadership is about
motivating a group of
people’s behavior to
achieve a common goal
bigger than their own.

19. Components of New Leadership
• Inspiring the vision of the organization
• Leaders must be a designer – of the
organization
• Leader must have a personal and universal
purpose
• Teach subordinates about purpose and
structure
• Leaders generate and manage creative
tension
P. Senge, 5th Discipline

20. 99% of leaders communicate the
same way!
They communicate from
the outside in.
Why?
How?
What? Adapted from
Simon Sinek

21. Inspired Leaders Communicate from
the Inside Out
• What – everyone knows what an organization does.
• How – some know how
• Why – few know why (organizational purpose,
belief, etc)
People don’t buy what
you do, they buy WHY
you do it!

22. Lets Try It
Item Apple 4-H
What We make great ???
computers
How They have a simple ???
design, user friendly
Why Everything we do – ???
We believe in
challenging the
status quo,
committed to
thinking differently

23. CHANGE

24. Why?
• Because often with change……
the heart (emotion) and the
mind disagree (rational).

25. Vision Skills Incentives Resources Action Plan CHANGE
Skills Incentives Resources Action Plan CONFUSION
Vision Incentives Resources Action Plan ANXIETY
Vision Skills Resources Action Plan GRADUAL
CHANGE
Vision Skills Incentives Action Plan FRUSTRATION
Vision Skills Incentives Resources FALSE START

26. • LEADERSHIP isn’t about embracing
change! IT IS MUCH BIGGER THAN
THAT!
•It is about:
BEING THE CHA NGE !

27. • "There are leaders you HAVE
to follow and leaders you
WANT to follow." What type
of leader will you be?
#leadership
@ctboleman
@ctboleman

28. Have Yous?
• ‘Have You’ thanked an adult for a small act of
helpfulness?
• ‘Have You’ called a friend… TODAY?
• ‘Have You’ celebrated in the last week a “small”
milestone reached?
• ‘Have You’ met with someone that works with you to
discuss what is going right?
• ‘Have You’ discussed something interesting, beyond
work that you ran across or read?
• Followed someone on Twitter that his happy?
• Sent a text message to say KEEP PUSHING!
• Liked someone’s status on Facebook that is making a
difference?
Adapted from Peters, T.
Adapted from Peters, T.
(2010). The Little BIG Things
(2010). The Little BIG Things

29. DO NOT LET
PEOPLE LIVE RENT
FREE IN YOUR
HEAD!!!
– Mark Towers

30. Control what you can CONTROL
•Attitude
•Effort
•Focus

31. PASSION
=
ENERGY

32. The Power of Positive Thinking
• Always use only positive words while thinking and while talking. Use words such
as, 'I can', 'I am able', 'it is possible', 'it can be done', etc.
• Allow into your awareness only feelings of happiness, strength and success.
• Try to disregard and ignore negative thoughts. Refuse to think such thoughts,
and substitute them with constructive happy thoughts.
• In your conversation use words that evoke feelings and mental images of
strength, happiness and success.
• Before starting with any plan or action, visualize clearly in your mind its
successful outcome.
• Read at least one page of inspiring book every day.
• Watch movies that make you feel happy.
• Minimize the time you listen to the news and read the papers.
• Associate yourself with people who think positively.
• Walk, swim or engage in some other physical activity. This helps to develop a
more positive attitude.

33. Because it
AND ONE LAST THING!
begins and
ends with
YOU!