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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For more information or to connect with Cities of Learning you can connect via social media﻿

Activities to complete

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

#1 Tiny habits

Mandatory

1 hour

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#2 Growing empathy

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1 hour

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Content

Everybody has world views (the way you look at things) due to, for example, the place where they were born, the people around, the education followed. World views are helpful, though they can also be in your way. This activity will support you in finding your own world view and recognising when you have a worldview shift. When understanding your own world view, you can also create empathy towards opinions, emotions, experiences, values or behaviour of others. And when understanding it makes it easier to have an appropriate response towards that other.
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So put simply, your world views determine your values and behavior. Everybody knows that when the funding from a house is solid, that there will be a big chance that the house will stay there for a long time. The foundation of that house is massively important. The same for your life, when you know what is very important for you and you make this the foundation of your actions and decisions then this supports your happiness and effective living. It will support you in being self-aware and prevents you from being limited by others. What or who is at the center of your life? What empowers you to have influence on the actions and decisions that you take?
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Review your center, what is there? And do you want to have this at the center? Does it support you in the way you want to live? You can use the example of the circle in the image and create your own personalised circle.

Resources

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World View Shift Get this badge

The holder of this badge has been independently working at the awareness of their own world view,  what is at the center of life,  and how being open minded can be supportive in understanding others and themselves. This awareness supports developing the skill Empathy. Empathy contains the understanding of one's own and another person's emotions, experiences and values, and the provision of appropriate responses.It also includes awareness of another person’s emotions, experiences and values; understanding another person's emotions and experiences, and the ability to proactively take their perspective, as well as responsiveness to another person’s emotions and experiences, being conscious that group belonging influences one’s attitude.
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This Empathy badge is part of the LifeComp, the European framework for Personal, Social and Learning to Learn Key Competence
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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 all tasks to get the badge

Tasks

Task no.1

Evidence verified by: one activity organiser

Read the ‘What are worldviews' document. Name at least 1 world view that you are aware of. Is there a world view that has been changed recently? In what way can being open minded support you? Chat with at least 1 person about your world view and ask the world view of that other person about the subject.

Task no.2

Evidence verified by: one activity organiser

Define what or who is the center of your life via the worksheet added in this activity. Review your center, what is there? And do you want to have this at the center? Does it support you in the way you want to live? You can use the example of the circle in the image and create your own personalised circle.Chat with at least 1 person about why you have defined that as the real center of your life and ask the other person if there are more ways to keep that as the center of your life.

#3 Move your ass

Mandatory

45 minutes

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#4 Vision my learning

Mandatory

30 minutes

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#5 First things first

Mandatory

30 minutes

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Skills

ESCO

#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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