Fathers and Families Coalition of America introduces activities and learning nexuses with assessments, guided instructions, group assignments, and takeaways for a comprehensive learning experience.

"Each member of your team has a potential for personal greatness; the leader's job is to help them achieve it" The most excellent opportunity to increase in the OAR Leadership Institute is understanding yourself from many distinct aspects of you to be a better you.

Participants will create a Leadership Development Plan (at a minimum of seven pages)  in anticipation of several self-directed writing items as follows:
1. Introduction starting with "I Am."
2. Understanding Others by Understanding Self Using the DiSC Model
3. Creating Your Pyramid of Success
4. Developing Your Meet Me in Ten Years Through the Ikigai Framework
5. What Is the New Story by Increasing Your Emotional Intelligence
6. Concluding by addressing the paradox of being the arrow vs. the target that draws arrows. Participants will incorporate the following: How You Are Prosperous? What Is Success to Me? What Is Your Relevance? What Makes You Grow in the Verb "Life"? How will you increase your passion, purpose, vocation, and as a professional?

MODULE ONE MEASURABLE ACTIVITIES

1. Participants will complete 5 to 6 hours of Module I DiSC and Leadership: Using Your Personality Strengths for Succeeding in Your Leadership Style to Understand Self and Others Better.

2. Participants will complete a DiSC Assessment to determine personal communication styles, social behaviors, and emotional coping methods within the four quadrants of their personality. Participants will explore aspects of their ideal environments, values, strengths, and opportunities for improvement, as well as over ten core areas of applying the DiSC Module to a better you.

3. Participants will complete the 8 Dimensions of Leadership to learn strategies to become better leaders, individuals, and interpersonal relationships.

4. Participants will identify their natural and adaptive personality styles with a focus on their two dominant quadrants.

5. Participants will identify their ideal environment(s) for positive relationships that mitigate conflict aligned to their personality traits.

6. Participants will identify the unique core values of their personality traits that will foster increased awareness of others and encourage healthy relationships as a professional and interpersonal lifestyle.

7. Participants will identify factors that increase "masking: and limiting healthy relationships.

8. Participants will learn and identify their styles as well as eight dimensions:
A. Pioneering
B. Energizing
C. Affirming
D. Inclusive
E. Humble
F. Deliberate
G. Resolute
H. Commanding

9. Participants will identify seven core areas to improve their overall effectiveness in each of the four quadrants and eight dimensions and develop a plan to improve the general essential elements that include:

A. Goals to Improve Each Dimension and Quadrant?
B. How does one judge another person?
C. How do others influence them?
D. How does overuse of behavior impact relationships?
E. What are adverse reactions when under pressure?
F. What are individual fears?

10. What are essential areas from the DiSC training to increase overall effectiveness for self, understanding others, and relationships?

11. Participants will create a leadership plan that includes the DiSC and New Story.

12. Participants will record Victory Statements in groups to Identify Their Values, Strengths, and Positive Traits at the end of each.

13. Participants will establish a weekly goal focusing on their positive parenting or relationship impacts weekly through an audio voice memo process in their voice with faculty to identify "victories" in their life using an audio flash card FFCA approach.

14. Participants will end this module with Pulling It Together to share lessons learned from the module, focusing on their personality, communication patterns, social behaviors, emotional coping methods, and How Leadership is Developed and Not Appointed.

15. Participants will create an action plan from the DiSC content with a focused mapping on the following items as a minimum:

A. Who Can Serve as a Mentor or Role Model to You in One or More of the Self-Identified Areas of Growth?
B. How Will You Hold Yourself Accountable for the Growth You Hope to Achieve?
C. What Are Potential Barriers You Might Face?
D. How Will You Know Whether You Have Been Successful?

MODULE TWO MEASURABLE ACTIVITIES

1. Participants will complete four hours of The Pinnacle of the Pyramid Building Blocks of Success module to increase skills as a leader, team member, personal goals, and concerning others that include the following:

a. Confidence,
b. Skill,
c. Team-Spirit,
d. Poise,
e. Condition,
f. Competitive
g. Greatness,
h. Industriousness,
i. Loyalty,
j. Alertness,
k. The initiative,
l. Enthusiasm,
m. Self-Control,
n. Friendship,
o. Cooperation.

2. Participants will have fewer than six writing narratives to expand lessons learned by applying their perspectives using reports and poems:

• How do you achieve Success? 
• The reward of pressure-producing purpose 
• What is your passion that you are not willing to give up? 
• How are you set apart as a person? 
• How do you bring Leadership by love into your professional life? 
• How do you define the responsibility of team spirit? 
• What Leadership values do you model to create an environment of integrity?

3. Participants will examine the concepts of integrity, character, and qualities to create a Code of Conduct.
4. Participants will create responses to Rules to Lead in each component of the module's mini-learning blocks.
5. Participants will address adversity with techniques to manage adversity in healthy and positive emotional responses.
6. Participants will end this module with Pulling It Together to share lessons learned from the module, focusing on self-assessments of their lives, desires, and what will put them in the best position to achieve their goals. The heart of the OAR Leadership Institute is to take this module and the writing activities to develop your leadership plan.

MODULE THREE MEASURABLE ACTIVITIES

1. Participants will complete four hours of the FFCA goal-setting module, A New Story - Positive Goal Setting for Leadership Legacy Plan, based on the following quadrants: Passion, Purpose, Vocation, and Profession, united to the experience of increasing self-esteem, dreams, and aspirations into a purpose for self-actualization using the PERMA Model, Positive Psychology Model, and Ikigai Framework.

2. Participants will create their own Ikigai diagram and Life Wheel to identify essential areas of growth as part of establishing priorities in their lives (parenting, personal, professional, and relationships) as part of the Leadership Plan in a group setting.

3. Participants will identify what is needed for positive influences in a kintsukuroi group exercise.

4. Participants will establish Success Starts with Self weekend journaling at least three activities to challenge the individual to Cultivate Self Inspiration in Daily Life to reflect on what they need to create the energy for goals established by the participant.

5. Participants will share with each member of the group, Meet Me In Ten Years, a self-reflection on one's purpose and the level of passion for that purpose and how to go from being stuck and or in self-doubt to unlimited possibilities as a process addressing the difficulty of a new path, the desire to want to have a change, self-reflection on one's purpose and the level of passion for that purpose, and how to go from being stuck and or in self-doubt to unlimited possibilities.

6. Participants will end this module with Pulling It Together to share lessons learned from the module, focusing on self-assessments of their lives, desires, and what will put them in the best position to achieve their goals.

MODULE FOUR MEASURABLE ACTIVITIES

1. Participants will complete the FFCA Responding Leadership Through Increased Emotional Intelligence four hours of training with a focus on strategies of emotional intelligence.

2. Participants will complete two EQ assessments for each to identify areas of opportunities to gain experience from the Goleman Model and Bar-On, R. Model of emotional-social intelligence to create a self-directed plan that incorporates emotional and social assessment to increase understanding of how individuals express themselves, coping skills, triggers, and stressors.

3. Participants will complete one hour of the FFCA Mindfulness session to use techniques to enhance self-awareness, self-management, relationship management, social awareness, and the seven basic emotions to move from reaction to response.

4. Participants will expand to the New Story activity with "More to The Story of You."
• What is your unwritten story of you?
• Is this a story of new construction or restoration?
• What are distractions from your scripting the story?
• If yes, how can you avoid others deciding your story?
• If yes, how can you avoid limiting yourself?

5. Participants will journal how to use skills introduced to model with their team by responding to the following: "How do you use compassion and curiosity to cultivate increased insights into your emotional intelligence?"

6. Participants will end this module with Pulling It Together to share lessons learned from the module, focusing on their emotional responsiveness impacts their role as a parent and in relationships with others to avoid triggers.

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