Your Future! Got a Plan?

Kim Rogers, MHS

Personal Mastery A Definition

Personal Mastery is the discipline of continually clarifying and deepening our personal vision,

of focusing our energies, of developing patience, and of seeing reality objectively

The Discipline of Personal Mastery

• Personal vision• Mental Models• Shared Vision• Team Learning• Systems thinking

Senge, P. (1999). The fifth discipline: The art and practice of the learning organization. New York, NY: Doubleday

A system is not the sum of its parts. It is the product of the interaction of parts.

What is a System?What is a System?• An organized whole made up of components that interact in a way distinct from their interaction with other entities & which endures over some period of time.

Lecture. (2009). Lecture. (2009). Introduction to Applied Sociology & General Systems StudiesIntroduction to Applied Sociology & General Systems Studies . Lincoln University Graduate School. Lincoln University Graduate School

Systems Thinking

Concept, Theory, ModelConcept

• Simply; a concept is an abstract notion or idea, something that isn’t concrete.

• "A word or set of words that expresses a general idea concerning the nature of something or the relations between things, often providing a category for the classification of phenomena."

Theodorson & Theodorson 1969

Theory

• A very loose meaning of the word is:

• That part of the study of a subject which is not practical.

More substantial definitions of a theory are:

• "A theory is a set of interrelated principles and definitions that present a systematic view of phenomena by specifying relationships among variables with the purpose of explaining natural phenomena.“

Kerlinger 1986

Model• Lucey (1991) defines a model of "any simplified abstract of

reality ".

• scale models of aircraft, cars, ships, housing estates, etc. These simplified versions of the real thing are called physical or iconic models. They are based directly on the representation of the phenomenon being studied and look like the object.

• analogue model. These models are physical in form but do not have the same appearance as the object being investigated. The circular movement of the hands of a wristwatch is an analogue of the behavior of time.

• Symbolic models are based on logic, and inter-relationships between concepts are usually expressed mathematically or algebraically. They are concerned with quantification.

Mathematical (algebraic) equations are symbolic models. For instance a simple mathematical model is:

Profit = Revenue minus Total Cost or P = R – TC

• A conceptual model is composed of a pattern of interrelated concepts but not expressed in mathematical form and primarily not concerned with quantification. Diagrams, such as maps, graphs, charts, balance sheets, circuit diagrams, and flowcharts, are often used to represent such models.

Structural Racism

Structural Racism has two meanings-

• Racism as a system of social structures the produce cumulative durable race-based inequities.

• The method of analysis used to examine how historical legacies, individuals, structures, and institutions work interactively to distribute material and symbolic advantage and disadvantage along racial lines.

• Kirwan Institute. (2006). FAQ: Structural racism. Ohio State University

Establishing a Strategic Plan for your life

Smart Goals

• Strategic

• Measurable

• Attainable

• Realistic

• Time sensitive

The Universal Keys to Success

1. Attitude

2. Helping others

3.Continuous learning

4.Perseverance/determination

Leadership & Power

Styles of Leadership

• Autocratic-• Bureaucratic-• Charismatic-• Democratic-• Laissez-faire-• People oriented/relationship

oriented-• Servant-• Task-oriented-• Transactional-• Transformational-

Types of Power

What is Power? To have Power or to be perceived as powerful. Power is having the potential to influence others. Power refers to all the means by which individuals, groups, or institutions can exert controlling influence over others.

• Reward power-• Coercive power-• Positional authority-• Expert power-• Referent power-

Luaffer, A. (1984).Understanding your Social Agency

Justice (Biblical)is rendering to every one that which is his due. It has been distinguished from equity in this respect, that while justice means merely the doing what positive law demands, equity means the doing of what is fair and right in every separate case. Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionaryjustice. (n.d.). Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. Retrieved October 09, 2012, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/justice

Ethics1. ( used with a singular or plural verb ) a system of

moral principles: the ethics of a culture.

2. the rules of conduct recognized in respect to a particular class of human actions or a particular group, culture, etc.: medical ethics; Christian ethics.

3. moral principles, as of an individual: His ethics forbade betrayal of a confidence.

4. ( usually used with a singular verb ) that branch of philosophy dealing with values relating to human conduct, with respect to the rightness and wrongness of certain actions and to the goodness and badness of the motives and ends of such actions.

Best Ethical Practice:Do the right thing because it’s the

right thing to do!

Values- what’s important to you!

Virtue - (What’s important to others)

1. moral excellence; goodness; righteousness.

2. conformity of one's life and conduct to moral and ethical principles; uprightness; rectitude.

3. chastity; virginity: to lose one's virtue. 4. a particular moral excellence. 5. a good or admirable quality or property:

the virtue of knowing one's weaknesses.

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What to do if you don’t have a plan

• Stay in School

• Pursue an internship or other potentially unpaid position that will propel you farther towards your future goal(s)

• Get a job in your potential field of endeavor

• Get out, get seen, get acquainted