EDL 290F Week 2

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The Nature of
Group Leadership
Phase One: A Case for Good Company
Week 2:
Good Company
ARRIVAL NOTES
● Welcome!
● Sit in groups of 4-5.
Mix it up!
● Set up your name
placard.
● Respond to this
week’s reflection
prompt.
TODAY’S AGENDA
● Reflections from the
SOUL journey.
● SOUL names.
● Week 2 lecture.
● SOUL reintroductions.
● SOUL scenario #2
● Wrap-up / SOUL creed.
REFLECTIONS FROM THE
SOUL JOURNEY
● Rate your week.
● Explain your rating for the
week. How are you?
● React to this week’s reading.
How did you approach the
reading?
● What are your top two
takeaways from this week’s
reading?

2. Remembering SOUL Names
Activity Led By SAMs

4. TO TEAMWORK. TO TRUST. TO JOY. TO LOVE AND HONOR.
Week 2: Good Company
Where will I use this week’s material?
● Small groups.
● Talking with students and families.
● Strength and conditioning process.
● Asking for help.
● Storytelling.
● Creating strong team connections.
As a SOUL:
● Workplace connections with peers
and supervisors.
● Asking for help.
● Understanding others.
● Close relationships.
In life:

5. Week 2 Lecture
Synthesis and Takeaways

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Week 2 Learning Materials
Synthesis and Takeaways
● Questions about the EDL 290F syllabus and SOUL Handbook should be
sent to Liz and Andrea or discussed after class. Both documents are fair
game for the first checkpoint after week 3.

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Week 2 Learning Materials
Synthesis and Takeaways
● Questions about the EDL 290F syllabus and SOUL Handbook should be
sent to Liz and Andrea or discussed after class. Both documents are fair
game for the first checkpoint after week 3.
● What stood out to you about this week’s learning materials?
○ Shout them out!

8. TO TEAMWORK. TO TRUST. TO JOY. TO LOVE AND HONOR.
Week 2 Learning Materials
Synthesis and Takeaways: Emotionally Intelligent Leadership - 10 Leadership Truths
(Brown, 2010, p.50)
● Leadership is art and
science.
● Leadership is available to all. ● Leadership is more than the
leader.
● Leadership can be learned
and developed.
● Leadership does not require
a title or position.
● Leadership involves
bringing about positive
change.
● Leadership is an
interpersonal activity.
● No theory is the best theory. ● Leadership can be stressful,
difficult, and even
dangerous.

9. TO TEAMWORK. TO TRUST. TO JOY. TO LOVE AND HONOR.
Week 2 Learning Materials
Synthesis and Takeaways: Emotionally Intelligent Leadership - 10 Leadership Truths
(Brown, 2010, p.50)
● Leadership is art and
science.
● Leadership is available to all. ● Leadership is more than the
leader.
● Leadership can be learned
and developed.
● Leadership does not require
a title or position.
● Leadership involves
bringing about positive
change.
● Leadership is an
interpersonal activity.
● No theory is the best theory. ● Leadership can be stressful,
difficult, and even
dangerous.
● Leadership requires inner work.

10. TO TEAMWORK. TO TRUST. TO JOY. TO LOVE AND HONOR.
Week 2 Learning Materials
Synthesis and Takeaways: Good Company
“Successful journeys, even short ones,
require good company.”
(Baxter Magolda, 2002)

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Week 2 Learning Materials
Synthesis and Takeaways: Good Company
“Successful journeys, even short ones,
require good company.”
(Baxter Magolda, 2002)
What is good company?

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Week 2 Learning Materials
Synthesis and Takeaways: Good Company
(Baxter Magolda, 2002)
What is good company?
mutual partnership

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Week 2 Learning Materials
Synthesis and Takeaways: Good Company
(Baxter Magolda, 2002)
What is good company?
mutual partnership
knowledge is complex and
socially constructed
self is central to knowledge
construction
authority and expertise are
shared in the mutual
construction of knowledge

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Week 2 Learning Materials
Synthesis and Takeaways: Good Company
(Baxter Magolda, 2002)
What is good company?
mutual partnership
knowledge is complex and
socially constructed
self is central to knowledge
construction
authority and expertise are
shared in the mutual
construction of knowledge
Validate
learners
capacity
to know
Situate
learning in
learners’
experience
mutually
constructing
meaning

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Week 2 Learning Materials
Synthesis and Takeaways: Good Company
(Baxter Magolda, 2002)
Who is good company to you?

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Week 2 Learning Materials
Synthesis and Takeaways: Learning Partnerships
(Baxter Magolda, 2002)
Back of Bike
● Supervisors
● SAMs
● Professors
● Parents/Family
● Mentors
● Workplace
Wellness Coach
Front of Bike
YOU

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Week 2 Learning Materials
Synthesis and Takeaways: Learning Partnerships
(Baxter Magolda, 2002)
Back of Bike
SOULs
Front of Bike
First-Year
Students

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Week 2 Learning Materials
Synthesis and Takeaways: Learning Partnerships
(Baxter Magolda, 2002)
Back of Bike
SOULs
Front of Bike
First-Year
Students

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Week 2 Learning Materials
Synthesis and Takeaways: Growth vs. Fixed Mindset
In order for learning partnerships to
work well, we must understand
growth mindsets.

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Week 2 Learning Materials
Synthesis and Takeaways: Growth vs. Fixed MIndset

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Week 2 Learning Materials
Synthesis and Takeaways: The Gifts of Imperfection
● Embracing imperfection allows us to be the best version of
ourselves.
(Brown, 2010)

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Week 2 Learning Materials
Synthesis and Takeaways: The Gifts of Imperfection
● Embracing imperfection allows us to be the best version of
ourselves.
● “Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story.” (p. 11)
(Brown, 2010)

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Week 2 Learning Materials
Synthesis and Takeaways: The Gifts of Imperfection
● Embracing imperfection allows us to be the best version of
ourselves.
● “Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story.” (p. 11)
● “When we’re looking for compassion, it’s about connecting with the
right person, at the right time, about the right issue.” (p. 13)
(Brown, 2010)

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Week 2 Learning Materials
Synthesis and Takeaways: The Gifts of Imperfection
● Embracing imperfection allows us to be the best version of
ourselves.
● “Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story.” (p. 11)
● “When we’re looking for compassion, it’s about connecting with the
right person, at the right time, about the right issue.” (p. 13)
○ How does this idea connect to the idea of good company?
(Brown, 2010)

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Week 2 Learning Materials
Synthesis and Takeaways: The Gifts of Imperfection
“Authenticity is the daily practice of letting
go of who we think we’re supposed to be
and embracing who we are.”
(Brown, 2010, p. 50)

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Week 2 Learning Materials
Synthesis and Takeaways: How Does Vulnerability Feel?
(Brown, 2010, p.50)
● Taking off the mask and
hoping the real me isn’t too
disappointing.
● So awkward and scary, but it
makes you feel human and
alive.
● Halfway across a tightrope,
moving forward and going
back are both just as scary.
● Not sucking it in anymore. ● Going out on a (very, very
high) limb.
● Letting go of control.
● It’s where courage and fear
meet.
● Being all in. ● Like free falling.
● Sweaty palms and a racing
heart
● It feels like fear, every single
time.
● A lump in your thought and
a knot in your chest.
● Scary and exciting; terrifying
and hopeful.
● Infinitely terrifying, and
achingly necessary.
● Freedom and liberation.

27. SOUL Reintroductions
Leading With Who We Are Instead of What We Do

28. In order to be good
company for one
another, we must be able
to let people see who
we are instead of what
we do.
In order to let people
see who we are, we
must practice
vulnerability and
imperfection. In order to guide
first-year students, we
must lead with who we
are, invite vulnerability,
and be good company.

29. SOUL Reintroductions
Leading With Who We Are Instead of What We Do
Busywork

30. SOUL Reintroductions
Leading With Who We Are Instead of What We Do
Busywork

31. SOUL Reintroductions
Leading With Who We Are Instead of What We Do
Busywork
● Inviting good company.
● Practicing vulnerability.
● Storytelling.
● Public speaking.
● Concisely sharing
information in a time
limit.

32. SOUL Reintroductions
Leading With Who We Are Instead of What We Do
Busywork
● Inviting good company.
● Practicing vulnerability.
● Storytelling.
● Public speaking.
● Concisely sharing
information in a time
limit.
● Lead with who you are
instead of what you do.
● 90 seconds, timed -
you may not go over.
● Present your top 3.
● Write notes for
mailboxes while
listening.

33. SOUL Scenario #2
SHOULD JOE EVEN BE HERE?
Joe just attended the first EDL 290F class for SOULs. He was motivated to become a SOUL because he
really connected with his SOUL last summer at orientation, plus the summer pay is pretty good.
During class, Joe noticed how accomplished and poised the other SOULs seemed. They all seem to know
each other and know what’s going on. SOUL is Joe’s first leadership experience, and he hasn’t been
involved with any clubs or organizations on campus. Should he even be here? Joe thinks about how he feels
out of place.
The EDL 290F instructor, Liz, has assigned reading about good company, authenticity, vulnerability, and
imperfection. It sounds more like a self-help class than a leadership class or SOUL training. Plus, it’s a lot of
work! Joe shakes his head to himself and wonders what he got himself into.
Using what you know from experience and the learning materials, what advice would you give Joe?

34. SOUL Check-Ins
Consultations with the Leadership Team

35. TO TEAMWORK. TO TRUST. TO JOY. TO LOVE AND HONOR.
The Nature of
Group Leadership
ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR NEXT WEEK
Week 2:
Good Company
NOTES
● Study groups for extra credit.
● You will need to complete employment
paperwork this week. Look for the links
on Canvas.
● Reminder: you need to read before your
strength and conditioning feedback
meeting.
● Deep dive videos. Scenario responses.
DUE NEXT WEEK
● Reading (56 pages).
● Cycler thoughts #1.
● Attend your SOUL strength and
conditioning meeting.
● Prepare for Checkpoint #1 (available after
next week’s class).

36. TO TEAMWORK. TO TRUST. TO JOY. TO LOVE AND HONOR.