Joyful Jubilant Learning September 2007
by Greg Balanko-Dickson
1. Courageous Heart
1.1. Stay With Tasks
1.2. Use Wisdom to Manage Risk
1.3. Influence Change
1.4. Make Waves
1.5. Lead the Way
2. Is there Value in Learning for the Sake of Learning?
2.1. Knowledge
2.2. Comprehension
2.3. Application
2.4. Analysis
2.5. Synthesis
2.6. Evaluation
3. Real Leadership Starts with Trust
3.1. Character Makes Trust Possible
3.2. Trust Makes Leadership Possible
4. New Voices are Tooting Sweetly!
5. Learning to Live Large!
5.1. BHAG
5.2. Ask Better Questions
5.3. Collaboration
5.4. Competition
5.5. Courage
5.6. Uncover Your New Best
6. What difference will you make? It’s your choice.
6.1. What kind of difference are you making?
6.2. It is all about the choices you make.
6.3. Doing what's important vs. urgent.
7. The Law of Intuition: What do you think you know?
7.1. Leadership is a learned skill
7.2. How does learning help your intuition?
8. Learning how to ask great questions
8.1. Blog Action Day: October 15th
9. Zombies
9.1. What is Your Lighthouse?
9.2. Constructive Beacon
9.3. Destructive Beacons
10. Entrepreneurs Make a Difference
10.1. They Add Value
10.2. Small Incremental Improvements
10.3. Incremental IS Innovation
10.4. Incremental Growth Becomes Economic Growth
10.5. Celebrate Your Local Entrepreneur
11. Make a Difference
11.1. Doing
11.2. Living
11.3. Working
12. 10 Commitments for Parents
12.1. Be What We Want Our Children to Be
13. High Quality Interactions
13.1. A Moment of Difference
13.2. Practice Active Listening
13.3. Ignite the Energy Within
13.4. Be Mindful of Your Interactions
14. A Harbor in the Tempest
14.1. We All Need Place to Purge
15. Barnstable does it right
15.1. Pat Riley: The Winner Within: A Life Plan for Team Players
15.2. Listen to Stronger by Kanye West
15.3. To Grow: You Need to Trust Each Other
16. Koa: Courage
16.1. The Hawaiian Value of Courage
16.2. Flash Back for Rosa
16.3. From Manager to Leader
16.4. Resolution, Conviction, Emotional Strength
16.5. Make a Difference for Ourselves First
16.6. Leadership Qualities
16.6.1. Mālama, or Caring
16.6.2. Ha‘aha‘a, or Humility
16.6.3. Kūpono, or Integrity
16.6.4. Na‘auao, or Intelligence and Wisdom
16.6.5. Koa, or Courage
17. Learning from LIfe
17.1. Anxiety Writes the Script
17.2. Bias toward filling in the blanks
17.3. Suspend Judgment
17.4. Goal: Communicate More Clearly
18. How Smiles and Thank You's Make a Difference
18.1. Joy is Infectious
18.2. Smiles @ Work
18.3. Thank You's: Small Moments of Energy
18.4. Smiles: Leading Indicator of Bottom Line Results
19. Who's the real leader?
19.1. When a Real Leader Speaks People Listen
19.2. Leaders Get Things Done
19.3. Someone Other Than You Might Best Lead
20. Create Your Distinction
20.1. Ho‘ohanohano: Dignity & Respect
20.2. We Sell Ourselves Short
20.3. Create Distinction to Conduct Yourself With
20.4. Toot Your Own Horn
20.5. Manager: What will you be known for?
20.6. We have to create something
20.7. From Management to Leadership
20.8. Work on Ourselves First
21. How Learning Increases Your Contribution
21.1. Two Options
21.1.1. Coast
21.1.1.1. Plateau
21.1.2. Grow
21.1.2.1. Stretching Yourself
21.2. Clarity of Purpose
21.3. As We Grow We Sprinkle Learning on Others
22. A Remarkable Interview with Kevin Eikenberry
22.1. Remarkable Leadership
22.2. Result of Leaders Actions
22.3. Focus: How Leaders Engender Trust
22.4. Learning: Foundational Skill of Any Leader
22.5. Five Things to Become Remarkable
22.5.1. Believe
22.5.2. Recognize and Remind
22.5.3. Actualize through Action
22.5.4. Gratitude
22.5.5. Serve
23. Help! I Can't Learn Anything Because I'm Disinterested
23.1. We Are Learners
23.2. We Are Teachers
23.3. Which are You?
23.3.1. Disinterested
23.3.2. Boring
23.3.3. Motivated
23.3.4. Inspiring
24. Picture the Difference
25. Realizing the power of our words
25.1. Capacity to be Remarkable
25.2. Inspirational teacher
25.3. Mindful of your own interactions
25.4. Clear about your purpose and values
26. JJL University
26.1. School Administrator
26.2. World History teacher
26.3. Gym teacher
26.4. English Teacher
26.5. School newspaper advisor
26.6. Speech teacher
26.7. Foreign Language teacher
26.8. Football coach
26.9. Science Teacher
26.10. Mathematics Teacher
26.11. American History teacher
26.12. Drama & Performing Arts
26.13. Band director
26.14. Home economics teacher
26.15. Debate Coach
26.16. Geography teacher
26.17. Philosophy teacher
26.18. Student Government teacher
27. The Law of Solid Ground: Trust is the Key to Leaving a Legacy
27.1. Being a Trustworthy Leader
27.2. Me First or Team First?
28. Notes to Make a Difference By
28.1. If I Had A Million Dollars
28.2. Reminder: Take the Blog off the Blog
28.3. Podcast Version (MP 3)
29. Selling myself short
29.1. It's hard to make a difference if you don't believe you can
29.2. Trusting You Make a Difference
29.3. Belief In Yourself
29.4. Moving Outside Your Comfort Zone
30. But... I'm not smart enough!
30.1. More To Intelligence than just IQ
30.2. Brain has amazing plasticity
30.3. Who's the person you would really like to be?
31. Being the Difference: My Solution to Change
31.1. Always a Student
31.2. Be The Change
31.3. Being the Difference
31.4. Comments
31.4.1. Untitled
32. Why I Learn
32.1. I keep learning to feed my curiosity
32.2. I learn to help
32.3. I learn to never stop trying
32.4. I learn to put people first
32.5. Why do you learn ?
33. My Ten Gallon Hat
33.1. Making impressions on a child
33.2. More than love
33.2.1. Build Them
33.2.2. Teach Them
33.2.3. Teach Self-Reliance