your one big life - wctf career conference, university of michigan, 2014 ann arbor, michigan

Your One Big LifeLeslie McGraw & Deb NystromWomen of Color Taskforce Career Conference: Transforming the Face of Leadership, March 2014

ConnectWhen have you dealt successfully with change, even when initially, it looked like failure?

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Agenda

10 Welcome & Connect

10 The Power of Our Stories

60 Antifragile: 5 Key Practices

25 Open Space

15 Raggedy Close

Stories

“After nourishment, shelter and

companionship, stories are the thing we need

most in the world.” ― Philip Pullman

5 Key Practices to Be Antifragile

“If about everything top-down fragilizes and blocks antifragility and growth, everything bottom-up thrives

under the right amount of stress and disorder.” - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Photos: Sponge, by rob.knight Flickr ccButterfly, by Deb Nystrom

Flex to Anti-FragileBeyond Resilience

Anti-FragileSome things benefit from shocks; they thrive and grow when exposed to volatility, randomness, disorder, and stressors and love adventure, risk, and uncertainty. ...Yet, there is no word for the exact opposite of fragile.Let us call it antifragile.

Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder - Taleb, Nassim Nicholas

Miche l l e Rogers ,

21 s t Century Med ia

ReinventIntrapreneur & Entrepreneur

Mindset

Intrapreneur MindsetJob Titles Professional DevelopmentNavigating Supervisor InteractionsConflicts of Interest and Commitment - http://spg.umich.edu/policy/201.65-1Intellectual Property - http://spg.umich.edu/policy/601.07Developing Your Online Presence/Reputation

The Four C’s• Connect• Clarify• Commit• Care

AccessTo You

Your Online Presence is: •Everything you say•Everything you don’t say•Your actions or inaction•What others have to say about you

Your Online Presence is: •Everything you say•Everything you don’t say•Your actions or inaction•What others have to say about you

Multi-Netwo

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SOCIAL Networking

SPARK

Conferences

Staff Classes and Training

VOICES

Ann Arbor Chamber Events

Volunteering

Yammer

LinkedIn

MeetUp.com

Private Online groups

Tweet-Chat (Twitter)

Google +

People Movers

Brand Pages

Everything

Happens in Perfect Timing

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What is Open Space Technology?

H. H. Owen’s assumptions:

If the boss orders it, not much will get done.

The best way to get something done is to give it to those who have a passion for it.

Photo by nerissa's ring, Flickr.com ccc

Open Space TechnologyPrinciples:

1.Whoever comes are the right people.

2.Whatever happens is the only thing that could have.

3.Whenever it starts is the right time.

4.When it’s over, it’s over. 18

The Law of Two Feet

What challenged you?

What inspired

you?

What surprised

you?

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Reflection &Wrap-Up

AgendaWelcome & Connect

The Power of Our StoriesClarify

5 key practices to be Antifragile

Clarify & Care

Open Space

Raggedy CloseCare & Commit

What are your “Hopenings”

to be Antifragile?

References from today: http://bit.ly/1qf5RP1