COE Week 10 - Generating Energy

Energy is important in the last half of the semester. How do you use the following aspects to GENERATE ENERGY? Write a sentence or 2 about each one. (Love, Great Ideas, Noble Principles, Interesting Work, and Exciting Challenges)

Love is the ultimate motivation of an extreme leader. I love the Living Learning Community Program! I have gone through the system as a student and have now been given the chance to be a leader in the program. I use this love to seek out feedback. I am always asking how people feel about the community and programs we do so I can find ways to better our weaknesses.

Great ideas may not seem like a great idea at first, but you have to go and try! If you fail the only way to be better is to ask for feedback and adjust. I have used this method when planning our flag-football team. Not very many of my members had ever played football before and I knew that it could get ugly. Yet, I tried it anyways. I just wanted my residents to have fun and try something new, and that’s what we did!

Noble principles are standards; what everyone expect to happen, but I had chosen to step higher than the standards. For example, when I did my academic check ins, I asked for more of my residents time to talk about the community and how they are doing in the personal life outside the community. I took the standard job of checking on their academics and took a higher route to talk more in depth.

Interesting work makes the community members enjoy their time here more. By avoiding the extra work that just sucks out their energy we can create interesting work. My FIR and I have created interesting work by taking away the walls and rules for the student’s assignments. The only thing we make them do is write a post in the discussion board. We leave them to decide what they feel is most important to share with the community and encourage them to read each other’s. We leave each day up in the air to decide what our community really needs that day.

Exciting challenges is also a way to create interesting work. I am able to create exciting challenges for my community by offering activities that a lot of them have never done before, also asking them to communicate with different people during class time to get them to spread their wings in the community. Everyone is going to find different tasks more challenging and my goal is to offer multiple things so that everyone has a chance to be challenged.

 

>Brittney<