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FOR
THOSE WHO DON’T LIKE TO READ – Click for
the Audio Introduction
of the Increasing
Your Personal IMPACT Follow-Up Experience
Increasing Your Personal IMPACT
Follow-Up Experience
Welcome to the Increasing Your Personal
Impact Seminar follow-up
experience. Over the next four weeks you will have the opportunity
to review and wrestle into your life the principles taught in
the seminar. We know that living a life of impact is both a great
challenge and responsibility. The seminar was a wonderful
step in that direction. But now, you must move from understanding
a few principles to living out what authentic leadership
is all about.
During the next four weeks I will guide
you back through the content of the seminar syllabus. Hopefully,
you still have your syllabus with the notes you took during
the seminar. If you can’t
find your syllabus because you’ve moved, the dog ate it
or you used it as a placemat for dinner one night, just click
and download
the Increasing Your Personal Impact syllabus now.
This is how the follow-up experience will play out:
First – each day you will come to the website
and listen to the mp3 audio impact track
of the day. You will
hear me speaking, not U2 or Keith Urban singing. Too bad, huh?
I was tempted to begin each track with my classic yodeling
routine, but wiser heads prevailed. If you like, you can download
all of these tracks at once and keep them in a folder on your
computer or put them on an mp3 player (like an iPod). But only
listen to one track per day. My hope is that you do this first
thing in the morning because I want you to be thinking about
the principle or issue raised throughout your day. The impact
track of the day will be 3 to 6 minutes in length and there
are 20 tracks. This means that if you listen to one track a
day during a typical business week the follow-up experience
will last four weeks. This also allows you to have the weekends
off. That’s right – free time to relax, party,
have fun and cut loose a little. If you occasionally miss a
day and get behind, no problem! Just work through the tracks
until you complete the experience at your pace.
Second – let me make a few suggestions that will
maximize your experience as you listen to the track of the
day.
• Buy a journal or spiral notebook so you can keep track of insights
or thoughts you have throughout the experience. I use a Sketchbook
made by Bienfang for my journal. It has a vertical format which allows me to
journal in two columns on each page (http://www.misterart.com/store/view/001/group_id/608/Bienfang-Note-Sketch-Book.htm).
Also, choose a specific place to keep your notebook and DAILY
IMPACT CARDS (I’ll
explain those in a moment.)
• Before you listen to each audio track - pray. Remember, this
follow-up experience is about allowing God access to your heart
and mind. So, ask the Lord (who is for you, loves you and believes in
you) to expose what is next in your leadership journey.
• Find a leadership ‘work-out’ partner. In
other words…do this process with a friend. Yes,
a friend. You know, someone who will put up with you and sees
the good in you. It would be so cool if you could find someone
who went through the seminar and would be willing to share
the experience. If you do this, it will multiply the impact
of the experience. It will give you someone to discuss the
daily questions that are assigned. If you find a ‘work-out’ partner but they haven’t
attended the seminar they can listen to the seminar on CD before
you start. Click
here to order the Increasing Your Personal Impact seminar on
CD.
• Download, print and cut out the DAILY
IMPACT CARDS. There are
two documents that each have five pages. You will need to print
these out. Each page has two cards on it that when folded become
3x5 inches. You will need to cut these out, fold them, and
carry with you throughout your day. Confused? Download and
print them – it
will make sense. If you can, print the cards on a high quality
paper or even a light card stock.
(Note: As you look at each page and see the two 3x5 cut-outs,
you’ll
notice that they are numbered Day #1 thru Day #20. Cut them
out and put them in order. Ignore all the cards except for
the card of the day. You’ll
be tempted to read all the cards…don’t do that.
Waiting will make them a daily surprise and keep you focused
on the day’s lesson. The cards
correspond with whichever track of the day you are listening
to. These are important because after you listen to the daily
track, I will give you a short assignment to write on the
back of the card. You will carry that card with you all day
and discuss it with your ‘work-out’ partner.
Don’t
lose these cards. Keep a file of them somewhere safe.)
Third – each day you will
be expected to do a little work. Don’t short cut these
simple assignments! Everyday I will take you back to a section
of the Increasing Your Personal Impact syllabus to
review a key concept or principle of authentic leadership.
These will be highlighted on your DAILY
IMPACT CARDS. Take each day seriously. It’s hard work
to change the way we approach life and leadership.
If you have your Increasing Your Personal
Impact syllabus,
a notebook, a pen, all the DAILY IMPACT CARDS cut out, your daily
audio track and a ‘work-out’ partner -
YOU ARE READY TO BEGIN.
So, let’s get after it. Let’s become the people
and leaders God hopes for us to be. Know that I’m praying
for you as you journey through the Increasing Your Personal
Impact Seminar
follow-up experience.
Dan Webster
Founder
Authentic Leadership, Inc.
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