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Student Activities Centralized Training Session 5 Hedgehog Concept Jol Primeau, Qubec City, Canada

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Leading in 3 simple steps Purpose Mastery Autonomy

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PURPOSE Establishing a purpose for your team will be challenging

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HEDGEHOG VS FOX Philosopher Isaiah Berlin wrote a simple essay about the hedgehog and the fox

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HEDGEHOG VS FOX Jim Collins took Berlins idea and uses it to explain that corporations, teams or individuals who behave like a hedgehog do better than those who behave like a fox He develops the Hedgehog Concept Check out the hedgehog videos on youtube

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The Fox The survival of a fox depends on numerous strategies, skills, knowing what you can kill, what can kill you, where to hide if attacked, how to attack various preys,

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The Hedgehog The survival of a hedgehog depends mostly on a single strategy: when attacked, roll up in a ball and let the pricks protect you

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Hedgehog or Fox? Corporations, teams, individuals who can simplify their survival or more to the point, their success into a simple hedgehog concept will do better than Foxes!

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My golf swing

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Corporations hedgehog concept Disney Southwest Airlines Walgreens General Electric Fedex They all have successful hedgehog concepts

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What is yours? Individually, do you know what one thing you need to do to make you a success? Have you ever wondered about it? Do you know anyone with hedgehog concepts? Think about successful people you know

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Finding your hedgehog concept

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Individual exercise 3 lists: What are you passionate about? What could you be the best at? What would people pay you to do? Get ready to discuss it with everyone

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How I use this BTW I use this all the time with high school students who dont know what to study at college

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With your SA teams Dont try to do everything well at first What are you most passionate about? What could you be the best at? What could you do for the biggest bang? (sorta like a pay) Set up little groups of 5-6, and discuss it!

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PAOE points The PAOE points are important but they dont necessarily measure success very well. If youre a smaller chapter, and you cant support a team for the design competition dont fret about it its clearly outside of your hedgehog concept You can get to these later. Pick activities for which you CAN be a success. Think of Chuck Curlin and K-12!

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MAXIMIZE YOUR CHANCES OF SUCCESS Find the activities within the SA offerings for which you will have the most chances of becoming a huge success. Find folks with different hedgehog concepts K-12, Student design competition, Grants, Post-high, and let them fly (autonomy!) but inspire them (purpose) and mentor them with the right skills (mastery)

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Hedgehog and MBOs Write MBOs that make sense to you and your team Pick objectives you WANT to do, because you WANT to be a success. If you must, pick fewer MBOs but do the ones you can with Rock Star abandon!

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Questions?