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Creating a Professionally Responsible Culture Through Peer Leadership. Willow Misty Parks Graduate Assistant Anderson School of Management University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM. It’s About the Audience. Active and cooperative Short cases Emotional impact/real people
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Creating a Professionally Responsible Culture Through Peer Leadership Willow Misty Parks Graduate Assistant Anderson School of Management University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM
It’s About the Audience • Active and cooperative • Short cases • Emotional impact/real people • Analysis modeled practical application • Emotional regulation and self reflection • Anticipating consequences and type of challenges
Peer Leadership • Builds relationships • Creates sense of community • Adds credibility • Can be powerful and pervasive • Introduces Professional Responsiblity as a foundation for success in school, at work, in life.
University Based Example • Approached—meet students where they are. • Embedded in many contexts, courses, workshops and experiences • Explore real-world dilemmas • Provide concepts and tools • Research-based • Peer leadership and ownership of concepts
Central Concepts • Why things go wrong • How things go right • How to recognize problems • Building professional responsibility through practice • Skills for responding: decision-making framework, personal scripts Know and live your values!
Reaching Millennials • Not about work ethic • Often question of values • Reaching them where they are
Messages that Resonate! • A lot of smart people in the world • The successful and the ones that achieve are the ones with the “whole package”
Apple or Barrel? • Incentives and pressures can encourage poor practice, but does not change personal responsibility.
Work on Good Habits • Know and articulate your values • Ask questions • Read signals, be informed (rules, codes, laws, professional context….) • Develop personal scripts for predictable problems • Have disputes professionally
YPSG Career Tragedies • Temptation • Rationalization • Ambition and overconfidence • Group, peer pressure/pressure from boss • Entitlement, sense of • Deception (of yourself, of others) • Incrementalism • Embarrassment • Stupid systems
Skills • Decision-making framework • Asking questions • Having disputes professionally • Personal scripts • Anticipating problems; preparing for them
Conclusion • See the Young Professional’s Survival Guide for more great information.