Summer Student Leadership Training
Learning to Lead Yourself
Outstanding leadership isn't just about leading others. Great leadership starts with self-leadership. If we want to be great leaders, we must lead ourselves first.
Assignment for the week of June 4th
1. Record a Video
I first need each leader to record a video of themselves saying the following quotes:
- "Great leadership isn't just about leading others. Great leadership starts with self-leadership."
- "My potential to lead others is always a direct result of how I lead myself."
- "Leadership is not something I do. It is something that I am."
- "I've been chosen for this moment to do something that matters."
- "My leadership matters, and it matters today more than it's ever mattered before."
- "Everyone wins when the leader gets better."
You can work on it with a friend or record it by yourself. If you're on vacation, get creative. Record it on the beach, at the pool, in front of your hotel. Find a unique background. (please make sure it's quiet for better audio; you may have to get up early and do it.) Same thing if you're at home.
Please send me the video(s) sometime this week (June 4th - 10th).
If you are at Monday's meeting (June 5th), we will walk around the downtown area using different backgrounds after we eat.
Once you have it completed, text or email it to me. If you use an Android phone, can you put it on your Google Drive and share it with me? Androids compress the file so small that it's hard to see the subject.
I will edit these videos and post them on our social media outlets. So if you do not want them posted, please let me know. But I still want you to do the video of each quote.
If you have any questions, please let me know.
After Monday night's meeting, I will post what we reviewed and your assignment for the rest of the week.
Any questions?
2. Watch the video below.
Watch this video! Take notes on what stuck out to you and why. Text me what you learned and how you will apply it to your leadership life.
3. Finding your Leadership Identity
In the video, Craig tells us we should write, "I am a leader!" on our bathroom mirror to remind us who we are. An example we gave on Monday night was to write, "Leadership is not something I do. It is something that I am." on a piece of duct tape and put that on your sports bag, forehead, or iPad. Anyplace where you will see it every day after you do that, please send me a picture of how you did it. Again, make it personal to you.