Pathway to Personal Leadership

Content

Habits are a big part of your life, about 40 % of your actions are habits. What if you would become aware of your habits and make conscious decisions instead of doing things automatically without thinking if it is an effective behaviour or not. A habit can be something small like taking a coffee every morning when you wake up, but it can also be more complicated as not taking action to change something that you don’t feel comfortable with. These habits are not just there, they grow step by step until they become second nature. This can be very helpful because when something becomes a second nature, the action doesn’t take a lot of energy anymore. Though it is very annoying when the habit is not effective for your well being. 
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Do you want to have influence at what happens in your own life and in your surroundings? By living the 7 habits of highly effective people, a method developed by Steven Covey, you will become better in achieving the things that you appreciate most in life and you will become more effective in living the personal and career life that you want. This playlist is inspired by Steven Covey’s work. It will support you in creating habits that are useful. 
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To create useful habits or to change disruptive habits, it is important to understand who you are, what works best for you, and having a life vision. #1 is an activity that gives you a method to change a habit. In activity #2 you can learn about world views and worldview shifts, this will help you to be open for opinions and vision of other people. And #3 will give you more awareness of the importance of being proactive because this will support you in getting things done. #4 and #5 will guide you to decide your goal and what needs to be done first and not get lost in minor activities that are distracting you from your goal. In this learning playlist you will work mostly to be a leader in getting your own things done. But first things first, start with activities in this playlist.
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Watch and be inspired by Youtube artist NickyTutorials when she decides to take back influence at her life during blackmail by sharing to the world that she is transgender. She became aware about her habits, was proactive within the area where she could influence to feel free again.
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This learning playlist is for everybody that can benefit from it, though it is specially designed for young people who are taking part in the Youth Pathways to Leadership course Volume 1, within the project Cities of Learning, Youth co-design learning, civic and career pathways. It will support you in recognising what for you is needed to be a proactive lead learner or role model for your peers. This learning playlist will support you in understanding what you personally need to do to achieve what you want for your community, and you will create a plan to get things done.
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Participants of these activities can earn badges that belong to LifeComp, the European framework for Personal, Social and Learning to Learn Key Competence. 
Specifically the competences: 
Self regulation
Flexibility
Empathy
Growth mindset
Managing learning
This learning playlist is the opportunity to get your learning acknowledged in European wide recognised open badges.
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Activities to complete

Complete the following activities, earn badges and you will see your playlist progress updated

#1 Tiny habits

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1 hour

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#2 Growing empathy

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1 hour

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#3 Move your ass

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45 minutes

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#4 Vision my learning

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30 minutes

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Content

‘All things are created twice’, that is what Steven Covey, the author of the book ‘The 7 habits of effective people’ writes. He recommends beginning with the end in mind. For example, when you want to build a house, you need to know first how this house must look, otherwise you will experience in a later stage that you forgot important basics and your house can become unstable. So you first create in your mind and later on in reality, and that is what is meant by ‘all things are created twice’. 
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What do you want to achieve in your learning, for civic and career life? What do you want to achieve for other young people in their learning, for civic and career life? This activity will be about those two very important questions. We recommend to keep the vision about next year achievable, make sure it is something that only takes a year and not your entire life to achieve it. When you understand where you want to end up, it gives a lot of clarity in your personal life as well as in your career life. It will give you the purpose of why you are doing things. 

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The holder of this badge has been working on the skill Managing Learning (L3.2) which contains the planning, organising, monitoring and reviewing of one’s own- and other young peoples learning by defining an achievement that needs to be done in a year. The method ‘begin with the end in mind’ has been used during this activity.
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This Managing Learning badge is part of the LifeComp, the European framework for Personal, Social and Learning to Learn Key CompetenceThe holder of this badge independently took action to plan this learning and in collaboration with peers worked at the sociocultural context of this competence by exchanging learning processes and giving feedback to each other during the international Leadership Volume 1 training course from the project Youth co-design Cities of Learning.
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How the holder of this badge worked on these skills can be seen in the evidence in this badge. International youth workers have assessed the completed tasks.

You have to finish 1 task to get the badge

Tasks

Task no.1

Evidence verified by: one activity organiser

Think about what you want to have achieved about your own learning, civic and career life next year. You can use the vision board method to make this achievement visual. You can also use other methods, like mindmap, timeline, etc., but make sure that it is very clear what you want to have achieved yourself. Then start with planning a path towards that end, how will you work at this achievement and how can you monitor this process? Perhaps you can create a few milestones along the way? So you recognise that you are on the right speed towards your achievement?
And then plan how you will review your process. Will you sit down every month to review what happened and if you need to adapt your plan? Or are you using other ways, like writing it down in your calendar, using the notes on your phone, or talking to a peer who did the same task ... ?
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Discuss your planned personal learning achievement with peers or mentors.

Task no.2

Evidence verified by: one activity organiser

Think about what you want to have achieved about the learning, civic and career life of other young people next year. You can use the vision board method to make this achievement visual. You can also use other methods, but make sure that it is very clear what you want to have achieved yourself. Then start with planning a path towards that end, how will you work at this achievement and how can you monitor this process? Perhaps you can create a few milestones along the way? So you recognise that you are on the right speed towards your achievement?And then plan how you will review your process. Will you sit down every month to review what happened and if you need to adapt your plan? Or are you using other ways?
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Discuss your planned achievement for other young people with peers or mentors.

#5 First things first

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30 minutes

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Skills

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#ensure effective timekeeping

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#plan learning

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#personality development paradigms

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#proactive thinking

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#set goals

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#encourage good habits to promote successful communication

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#lead and influence

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#demonstrate empathy

Activities: 5

Started: 49

Completed playlist: 9

Time to complete: 3 hours 45 minutes

Organisers

Tilburg City of Learning

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