Month: April 2018

6 Key Skills developed in a Vision Quest Camp
20 Apr
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6 Key Skills developed in a Vision Quest Camp

6 Key Skills developed in a Vision Quest Camp

With my Vision Quest camps coming up I have received a lot of interest and a lot of questions. One of the consistent questions being, “what will be some skills I develop at a Vision Quest Camp?”. I am hoping this blog post will detail a little bit about the skills you develop, and also how they play into organizational success.

I often say “Leadership is a choice, not a formal position” and I say this because it is true. I have seen it with my own eyes, and it has been shown in studies. Research by Barnes and Krieger determined that previous leadership research was insufficient because it relied on models of one leader/many followers. According Barnes and Krieger, leadership is more of a reflection of an organization, rather than a person. In other words, in the most successful organizations, leaders’ roles overlap, and different people take on leadership roles at different times.

What the Vision Quest Camps aim to do is to give youth the personal skills needed to succeed in different leadership roles in different situations.

This is done by focusing on building six key personal skills:

 

  1. Creating confidence- Confidence is one of the most sought-after personality traits in all aspects of life. It is important to note […]
What Blocks Future Planning
03 Apr
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What Blocks Future Planning

WHAT BLOCKS FUTURE PLANNING

Everyone involved in the business world is aware of the importance of planning; take a look at your meeting schedules, your diary or your inbox and I’ll bet that at least 50% of your time is taken up with planning. Nothing wrong with that, of course: every business needs clear long-term strategies for success (although I would argue that there’s far too much “window dressing” planning, producing plans for the sake of it which will never really be fulfilled and which in fact mitigates against putting useful plans into action, but that’s a subject for another blog). But how much planning do we actually put in place for our own lives, what strategies do we have in place to make sure that we achieve our objectives, both personally and professionally, not just those of our employer?

 

This question is particularly pertinent for young people; when I’m working with them I’m struck again and again by the limitations of their future planning. Often their plans are disjointed: go to this college, do this job, live in this town… that’s linear planning, I’ll do this and then […]