PowerPoint presentation used for the 2015 Chicago LEAD Conference Student Workshop

1. Presented by: Edward A. Reed, Resource Counselor
Darryl V. Johnson, Assistant Principal
Robert Frost Middle School, MCPS
Chicago, IL
LEAD Conference
The Westin Lombard
Yorktown Center
February 13–15,
2015

2. Be Your Best S. E. L. F.
Social Emotional Leadership is the Foundation to
Success
Mr. Edward A. Reed, M.Ed.
Professional Speaker
Award Winning Educator
Wellness & Leadership Coach
Mr. Darryl V. Johnson, M.Ed.
Professional Speaker
Award Winning Educator
Student Program Developer
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3. • Social Emotional Learning
• Social Emotional Leaders
• Be Your Best S.E.L.F

4. Activity #1
Think back to someone who has greatly influenced you. Think
about the characteristics that made that person so inspiring and
motivating.
Get up out of your seat and form groups of five. Briefly share
thoughts with your group. Be prepared to share one or two
thoughts with the whole group.
YOU HAVE 5 MINUTES FOR THIS ACTIVITY

6. • Increased pace of life
• Greater economic demands on parents
• Alterations in family composition and stability
• Breakdown of neighborhoods and extended families
• Weakening of community institutions
• Unraveling of parent-child bonds due to work, school demands, time,
drugs, mental health, and economic burdens
• Climate of war, terror
• Ongoing exposure to an array of digital media and pervasive
advertising that encourage violence as a problem-solving tool and
other health-damaging behaviors and unrealistic lifestyles

14. Why is it important to be a competent Social Emotional Leader?
What will you be doing with your life 10 years from now?
What are the current global trends impacting where you want
to be?

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16. Leadership remains the No. 1 talent issue facing organizations
around the world. Companies face an urgent need to develop
leaders at all levels—from bringing younger leaders online
faster.

19. Developing Millennials and multiple generations of leaders.
Meeting the demand for leaders with global fluency and
flexibility.
Building the ability to innovate and inspire others to perform.
Acquiring new levels of understanding of rapidly changing
technologies and new disciplines and fields.

20. Business acumen: Understanding the core business well
Collaboration: Having the ability to build cross-functional teams
Global cultural agility: Managing diversity and inclusion
Creativity: Driving innovation and entrepreneurship

21. Customer-centricity: Enhancing effective customer
relationships
Influence and inspiration: Setting direction and driving
employees to achieve business goals
Building teams and talent: Developing people and creating
effective teams

22. 1. Trust
2. Compassion
3. Stability
4. Hope

23. Hope is a critical layer in
the foundation of
leadership!

24. “The very least you can do in your
life is figure out what you hope for.
And the most you can do is live
inside that hope. Not admire it from
a distance but live right in it, under
its roof.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Animal
Dreams

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26. 1. Be honest with yourself and Trustworthy for others.
2. Leading with Love leverages the law of averages.
3. The greatest opportunities are the ones you create yourself.
4. Positive connections create the experiences you want in life.
5. The decisions you make impact your past, present and future.
6. Leadership and Learning are indispensable. Learning from
failures can be more valuable than learning from successes.
7. Your actions, not your position determines your leadership
8. Great leaders are able to combine strategy and character. But
if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

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Activity #2
• On the back of the IPhone, answer the question,
“What makes you…YOU?” Write three examples.
• Pair-Share(Elbow Partner) and Square (Find
another pair)
• Share out answers

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30. • Edward Reed – 301 – 279 – 3967 or Edward_A_Reed@mcpsmd.org
• Darryl Johnson – 301- 279 – 3949 or Darryl_V_Johnson@mcpsmd.org
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