Deck from the workshop I gave to 120 Leadership Academy high school students at the 2010 Missouri DECA Fall Leadership Conference. The "Pass It On" topic focused on turning goals into a reality by keeping a forward momentum within a team.

1. How to Make Goals, Ideas and Attitudes
Spread and Stick with Your Chapter
Julia Pitlyk & Isaac Robinson III

2. Can I Quote You on That?
• Share:
– Name
– High School
– Grade
• Read Quote:
– How or why it applies to leadership?

3. Pass It On
• Range of Leadership Positions
– Team
– Organization: DECA!
– Classroom
– Family
• Power of a Good Idea
• Problem of a Good Idea
– Set into Motion : Pass It On

4. R.E.S.P.E.C.T.
• Ultimate leadership quality
1) Encourages openness in your team
2) Builds your trust as a leader
3) Increases spread of your ideas
• What’s Twenty Dollars Worth?

5. Express Yourself
• “Goals are dreams that have been said out
loud.”
• Declare Your Goals!
– Increase possibility of actually succeeding!
– Turn your passion into action
• Gain support of team, peers, mentors
– Feedback

6. The Negative Neds/Nancys
• Types of Negativity & Their Sources
– Constructive
– Obstructive
• How to Deal
– Ask “Why?”

7. Negativity Types
• The Resisters -- They rail against anything different
• The Wobbly —They are constantly shifting moods and expect others to
adjust
• The Gossipers -- They spread rumors and tell inappropriate personal
tidbits
• The Blamers—They are constantly blaming others
• The Victims—They believe people are out to get them
• The Adhesives--They can’t let go, even things that happened years ago
• The Pessimists--They always expect the worst case scenario
• The Boilers—They will blow over the slightest provocation
• The Complainers—They feel everything is wrong or will soon go wrong
• The Choosers—They are constantly pitting one group against another
• The Detached-- They feel most everything is dumb or beneath them
• The Self-Absorbed--They are constantly grabbing credit or attention

8. • How did you feel during the exercise? Did you
feel "heard" by your partner?
• What do you remember your partner
grumbling about? Did you or they provide any
solutions?
• In what ways do we fall into grumbling
conversations in our daily interactions? Are
these productive?
• How can they be made more productive?
• What does this exercise say about listening
skills?

9. Build Your Team
• Empower Members, Make Your Goal Happen
• Delegate Responsibility
• Create Personal Investment
• Give Feedback

10. Trashcan Ball!
Player 1
NO instruction & NO feedback
– Say: “Behind you” or “In front of you”
– NO: Measuring distance or encouragement

11. Trashcan Ball!
Player 2
YES instruction & NO feedback
– Say: “You are ___ feet from the can”
– or “Directly in front of you”
– NO: Positive encouragement

12. Trashcan Ball!
Player 3
NO instruction & YES feedback
– Say: “You are doing so well!”
– or “Way to go!”
– NO: Anything that offers or measures direction

13. Trashcan Ball!
Player 4
YES instruction & YES feedback
– Say: Positive encouragement and specific
direction towards the can
– NO: Negativity or vague instructions

14. Trashcan Ball
• Frustrated?
• How important is:
– Feedback?
– Specific Feedback & Instructions?
– Encouragement?

15. Don’t Quit, Commit
• Manage Roadblocks:
– Stress
– Set-Backs
– Re-Evaluations

16. Finish Strong
• Reinforce goals with your team
• Ask for Feedback
• Revitalize your ideas through the process
• Update your team on progress
• Be grateful

17. Take Away
• Build Respect
• Express Your Goals
• Manage Negativity
• Build Your Team
• Push Through Obstacles
• Maintain Movement towards Success
• Make a Plan of Action
– Rule of 5: What can you do each day?

18. Contact Us
• Julia Pitlyk – julia.pitlyk@gmail.com
• Isaac Robinson – irobinson@truman.edu