Leveraging Leadership for Campus Sustainability

AASHE Sustainability Officers Workshop

Jenna Ringelheim, Environmental Leadership Program

Jesse Pyles, Unity College

ObjectivesFocus on you

Identify strengths

Map your network

Introduce useful tools

Draft PLP

FacilitatorsJesse Pyles

Sustainability Coordinator Unity College

Jenna Ringelheim National Program Coordinator Environmental Leadership Program

Agenda Introductions

Elevator Pitch

Creative Session I: Our Influence

Personal Leadership Plan

Break

Creative Session II: Resource Mapping

Creative Session III: Mission/Vision

Gallery Walk

AASHE Survey

Ground RulesBring it. This is an active session.

Think about yourself for once.

No blockers. Every idea is a good idea.

Focus on your strengths.

Use each other.

You’re all facilitators.

Elevator PitchGive your Institution/Sustainability

Overview

What are you REALLY good at?

How are your strengths related to achievement photos?Small groups of 44-5 minutes each

Creative Session I: Our Influence

“How can sustainability officers best influence change in higher education?”Individual post-it brainstorm (3 min)Group Share (10 min)Organize and Iterate (12 min)Scribe summarize on flip chart

Creative Session I: Our Influence

The Question:

In What Ways Can We (Sustainability Officers) best influence change in higher education?

What is our impact?What should higher ed. look like?

Personal Leadership PlanStructure for reflection and intention.A tool for assessment.Integrated personal and professional

aspirations.Working document.

“[w]e encourage you to challenge yourself. Think about creative new ways to approach your work, push yourself to work across boundaries . . . or propose strategies for engaging new networks of people in more productive ways.”

PLP Framework1. Personal Statement

Mission / vision statement

2. Personal and Professional Goals

3. Resources

4. Constituency/Diversity

5. Challenges

6. Milestones

7. Happiness

Green Light. Delight. Ignite.

What efforts in your work are:

Green Light: Immediately actionable

Delight: Personally satisfying

Ignite: Professional game changers

Break – 15 min

Creative Session II:Resource Mapping

Brainstorm:TrustCommunicationAdvice

Individual Sketch: 15 minutes

Group Share: 5-10 minutes each

Creative Session III:Mission/Vision

What do YOU want to get done in the next:

Two weeks? Two months? Two years?

Creative Session III:Mission/Vision

Craft your own Personal StatementWhat will satisfy you in your work? How does it meet your own goals?

Questions?Environmental Leadership Program

http://www.elpnet.org

Unity College

http://www.unity.edu

Thanks!ELP Networking Meet-up.

Tuesday at 4:45. Rm. 511 A

Environmental Leadership Program http://www.elpnet.org

Unity College http://www.unity.edu