The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Canteen Leaders Strategies and Tools to Help Prepare Ourselves For The Challenges of Life and Leadership!

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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Canteen Leaders
Strategies and Tools to Help Prepare Ourselves
For The Challenges of Life and Leadership!
CAN
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Glengarry Teaching Skills For Life
Kangaroo Valley
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Reflections Of My School Years
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Australian Cherub Dingy Champs
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Kayaking
A Dream come True!
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Performance
Under Pressure
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The Mountains
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Australian Kayak
Marathon Championships
Perth, Easter, 2000.
4 years of planning
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Outdoor Education Sport Psychology
NSW Netball Team Undergoing Outdoor Training In
Preparation For Their National Championships
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Profoundly Life Changing Read!
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Fostering Change In People Requires A New
Direction In Programming Facilitation At Our
Camps
TO CHANGE ANTICIPATED OUTCOMES PROGRAM TYPE
Feelings New skills, energy, enjoyment, fun Recreational
Thinking New knowledge, attitude, awareness Educational
Behaviour New ways to act increase function Developmental
Misbehaviour New ways to cope decrease dysfunction Therapeutic
Matching program type with change requirements.
(Priest, 1996, p.23)
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Tools The 7 Habits Can Provide Canteen Leaders!
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The 7 HabitsOverview
Optimising Our Physical Mental Health
Teamwork Inclusiveness
Understanding Compassion
Respect Integrity
Inspiration Encouragement
Flexibility Initiative
Pride Accountability Positivity Celebration
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Habit 1 Be Proactive Overview
Is all about taking control of your life! It
means that you choose to act deliberately and
take responsibility for your actions and your
lifes direction.

• A proactive person
• Can choose their attitude to life
• Is responsible for their own happiness.
• Controls the things in their life that they can
  control, and forgets about the uncontrollable.
• Overcomes setbacks through proactive thinking
  action.
• Strives to be a change agent through proactive
  actions.
• Makes life happen to them rather than being a
  passenger.
• Makes smarter decisions. Thinks before acting!

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Good Leaders Make A Proactive Choice Proactive
or Reactive
Can-Do People No-Can-Do People Take initiative to
Wait for something tomake it happen. happen to
them. Think about solutions Think about problems
and options. and barriers. Act. Are acted upon.
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Self-Awareness Am I a Positive or Negative
Thinker?

• Monitoring self-talk on a tough expedition or at
  camp.
• At a given time, or at places dictated by the
  terrain that could provide a teachable moment
  have students complete a self-check for a few
  minutes evaluating the following
• Self-talk
• Talk with others
• Body language
• Enthusiasm levels at different spots during the
  trip.
• Evaluate this around the fire at night. This
  leads to a tutorial on positive negative
  self-talk.
• As a leader what kind of thinker are you?

What do I see when I look inside myself? Do I
like what I see? All Change has to begin from
within!
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Positive or Negative Tracker

• What Kind Of Tracker are you?
• This activity links to the monitoring of
  self-talk during an expedition or camp.
• Around the fire students complete the tracker
  questionnaire and calculate the kind of Tracker
  they are.
• Facilitation can involve partner sharing of
  results. Then a discussion on how we can be more
  positive in our daily lives.

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Make Your Own Weather!

• We have the ability to see sunshine even when we
  are surrounded by storms! Its all about attitude!

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Press Pause Between stimulus and response we
have a split second where we can pause and learn
to be proactive with our decisions!

• Think Before Speaking or Acting
• Monitor your dialogue with others. Is it how you
  would want to be treated.
• Am I about to do something that I will regret, or
  is negative?
• Good Leaders are self-aware, and roll model
  proactive behaviour.
• Look for opportunities to use teach the pause
  sign!

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3 Blessings! 3 Things I Am Thankful For Today!

• Around the fire at the conclusion of each day,
  participants are given time to reflect on their
  day, focusing on the good things that happened to
  them! Things they are thankful for.
• EG 3 things I am proud of 3 things I did well
  today.
• This activity, on its own, has been show to
  significantly reduce negative feelings and
  emotions.
• Where possible focus on the positives.

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Can Do Proactive People In History
Everest
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Habit 2 Begin With The End In Mind Overview

• Deals with developing a clear picture of who you
  want to be and what you want to accomplish in
  your life.
• What are your values?
• What is your mission?
• What are your goals?
• How to set them
• Systems to support your goals
• Identifying your talents and developing them
  through out your life.
• Making your life extraordinary!
• How can you use your extraordinary talents as a
  leader at Canteen?

Where do we want to go in life? We better draw a
map to get there.
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I Need 4 Volunteers

• In 2 minutes you need to assemble this jig saw
  puzzle. Off you go!
• Would it have been easier to put the puzzle
  together if youd had a picture to look at? Why
  or why not?
• Having a picture provides you with a clear vision
  of what you need to accomplish, which gives you
  direction and saves you time, and makes you more
  efficient.

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Mouses Magic Paints
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If You Could Achieve One Impactful Thing At
Canteen, And You Could Paint This, What Would It
Look Like?
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Paint Your Own Masterpiece
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The Great Discovery

• This online activity takes you through a series
  of questions that helps you pinpoint the
  priorities in your life.
• Teen Mission Builder click to open webpage
• It will email you back a print out that you can
  then use to formulate your own mission statement
  for your wall at home or work.

http//www.franklincovey.com/cgi-bin/teens/teens-m
sb/part01/index.html
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Mission Statements Single Sentence
Sam
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Setting Goals
Steps That I Need To Take To Help Me Live My
Lifes Mission

• Count The Cost
• Put It To Pen
• Just Do It
• Use Momentous Moments
• Rope Up

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Step 5 Roping Up

• Climbers rely on each other for safety,
  motivation support. The rope bonds them and
  keeps them together in their common quest!
• They are also there to support you if when you
  fall!
• When you set goals, rope up with someone else
  with a similar vision or motivation for life.
• In real life if you rope up with someone or a
  group your energies and enthusiasm will drive
  each other to success.
• You will also have people to support you through
  the hard times along your journey to success,
  which are naturally part of life!

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Habit 3 Put First Things First Overview

• Managing Your Time later session.
• Not Letting fear control your life and make your
  decisions.
• Comfort zones Courage Zones.
• Overcoming the hard moments in life.

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Courage Zone

• Habit 3 is about putting yourself your best
  interests ahead of your fears.
• Putting first things first will often cause you
  to stretch outside your comfort zone.
• And Venture into your Courage Zone!

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Click Picture To Go To Story
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Courage Zone Looking For Opportunities To Sew
The Seeds Of Change.

• It could be argued that fear is one of the worst
  emotions that people can possess because of its
  ability to hold us back in life.
• Fear can paralyse us, limiting our achievements
  and reducing enjoyment in our lives.
• As a leader at Canteen your time with
  participants is full of opportunities to look for
  that small teachable moment that may have a BIG
  lasting influence on a persons life!

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Okay Now Lets All Experience The Courage Zone!

• Everyone on your feet
• Make a circle
• Renee is going to demonstrate how to step into
  your courage zone by dancing for us all in the
  circle.
• Well each one of you has to do it to the music.
• Now I want you to monitor your self talk, your
  thoughts, your muscle tightness, your belief in
  yourself.
• How are you feeling right now? look at the body
  language of those around you, ask them what they
  are thinking!

Remember The key to overcoming our fears is to
worry less about failing, and more about the
chances we miss when we dont even try.
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Large Hard Moments

• Occur every so often in life include things
  like
• Peer Pressure Alcohol, drugs.
• Dropping people who were friends when they wont
  respect your values.
• Getting dumped by a girl/boy friend.
• Your parents get divorced.
• Someone we love passes away.
• These moments will come in your life, they are
  part of the cycle of life.
• You can prepare for them and meet them head on
  like a warrior and come out victorious.
• Be courageous at these key junctions in your
  life. Canteen operates to foster this courage!
• Just REMEMBER this!

I should check the weather before heading to the
mountains!
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Thumb Wrestling!

• Working with the person next to you, you have 1
  minute to thumb wrestle with them. In that 1
  minute you have to see how many times you can pin
  the other persons thumb down for the count of 3.
  
• How many of you were engaged in a competitive
  mindset when you started the activity?
• Did anyone simply communicate with each other and
  work together to get as many touches as possible?
• We all too often go into an activity with this
  win lose mindset, when Win Win can help achieve
  much more.

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Habit 4 Think Win-Win

• Thinking a Win-Win philosophy for life is the
  foundation for getting along well with others.
• It not only means you both get something out of
  what youre doing, it means you try to plan ways
  for both of you to win.
• Win-Win is not an accident it is a deliberate way
  of thinking!

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Lets Learn a Little More About Each Paradigm.
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Your Relationship Bank Account

• How you feel about yourself others is like a
  bank account!
• You can make deposits and withdrawals into this
  account through the things you think, do, and say
  to yourself others.
• When I make a commitment to myself or others and
  stick to it Cha Ching, its a deposit.
• When I break a promise to myself or others, I
  feel disappointed and make a withdrawal.

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Relationship Bank Account
RBA Deposits RBA Withdrawals Keep promises. Break
promises. Do small acts Keep to yourself.of
kindness. Be loyal. Gossip and break
confidences. Listen. Dont listen. Say youre
sorry. Be arrogant. Set clear expectations. Set
false expectations.
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Small Acts Of Kindness
RBA Deposits RBA Withdrawals Do small acts Keep
to yourself.of kindness.

• Leaders be on the lookout to facilitate small
  acts of kindness! It fosters win-win positive
  feelings within the group and individuals.
• While working with your Canteen colleagues look
  for ways to create a Cha Ching moment.
• Lets hear it Cha Ching!

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Saying Sorry Can quickly restore an overdrawn
relationship account

• A great activity for sitting around the fire near
  the end of a trip, or with groups that you know
  have had some conflict.
• As a group, there have been times when we have
  made withdrawals from our relationship bank
  accounts, this has been at the expense of others
  feelings.
• Look around this circle. Who have you done
  something to that requires an apology?
• Take 2 minutes to look around the circle and
  reflect on your past actions.
• Offer turns of going around and saying sorry to
  the person that you have wronged.

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Habit 5 Seek First to Understand, then to be
understood.

• Habit 5 is about being good communicators.
• It teaches about listening first, then talking
  second.
• It is about seeing things from another's point of
  view before sharing your own.
• For young men giving them opportunities to talk
  about their lives, fears, challenges is a real
  positive!
• Feeling secure socially is a buffer to depression
  and an area that we in outdoor education can
  foster!

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5 Poor Listening Styles
If we want to be effective communicators during
our lives we have to learn to be good listeners.
Good listeners are aware of poor listening
styles. Lets take a look at 5 poor listening
styles and check in to see if you have any poor
listening characteristics.

1. Spacing Out
2. Pretend Listening
3. Selective Listening
4. Word Listening
5. Self-Centered Listening

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Group Campout

• Students are grouped into camp groups of 4
  students.
• Groups are made to separate friends and cliques.
• They spend the weekend camping together on campus
  with roving staff supervision.

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Walk a Mile In Someone Elses Shoes

• After getting organised at camp have students
  head off in pairs for half an hour of Duo Time.
• Make groups up with people they do not know too
  well!
• Their task is to conduct an interview as if they
  were a reporter for the local newspaper.
• The article they are writing will be read around
  the fire that night!
• Partner sharing around the fire that evening.

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Walk A Mile In Their Shoes
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Name Game

• Partner Retell. Pair people up complete the
  following
• Tell us how you came to get your name or nick
  name.
• 1 goal you have in the future.
• 1 person you have in your life that is special
  and that you can talk to them about anything.
  What makes this person special and approachable?
• Name one skill you possess that helps you cope
  with the low points in your life. How do you use
  it?
• Noble, (2007)

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Something In My Life I Need Help With..

• Often we do not know how to ask for help, this is
  especially the case for young men.
• This important life skill can be practiced around
  the campfire.
• I need help with.
• The facilitator gives an example from their life
  to the group to get started.
• Break off into smaller groups of 2 or 4 and share
  the issues they are having problems with.
• Come back to the circle. A partner shares the
  issue with the group.
• The group listens and then tries to give
  solutions and support to the person.

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Habit 6 Synergise Overview

• Habit 6 is about valuing and celebrating
  differences. Its about knowing that two or more
  people can work together to create better
  solutions than any one of them could alone.
• Flow activities to promote synergy.

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Synergy In Action

• Working individually, take 1 minute to try and
  write down the names of as many body parts as you
  can think of that have only 3 letters in their
  name.
• There are 10 of them.
• No slang or rude words!
• Now, pair up, share your list with your partner,
  and take another 1 minute to see if you can come
  up with any additional names.
• Did any pair get all 10 body parts?
• If not, join up with 2 more people, can you get
  all 10.
• Lets check your list against mine!

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10 Body Parts With 3 Letters In Their Name

1. Toe
2. Lip
3. Gum
4. Rib
5. Arm
6. Leg
7. Eye
8. Ear
9. Hip
10. Jaw

Gum
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We Are All Special A Minority Of One!

• We are all different.
• We learn differently
• We have talents in different areas.
• Some are good at sport
• Some are good at music
• Some are good at science
• We see the world through different coloured
  glasses.
• This gives us many differing perspectives!

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We See The World Differently!

• Group 1, put your hands up!
• Okay turn around so you cant see the board.
• Group 2 I will now show you 2 pictures. Look at
  them and keep the answer to yourself regarding
  what the pictures were.
• Look at picture 1
• Now look at picture 2

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Seeing The World Differently

• Group 2, now you turn around so you cant see the
  board.
• Group 1 I will now show you the 2 pictures. Look
  at them and keep the answer to yourself regarding
  what the pictures were.
• Look at picture 1
• Now look at picture 2

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What Did You See?

• Group 1?
• Group 2?
• How can two groups looking at the same thing, get
  two completely different views of the world.
• We all see things differently, we can use this to
  our benefit if we synergise!

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Entrance to B 31 Argyle Cave
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The Squeeze
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Synergy In The Cave
Synergising With My Peers Focussing on things
within our control.
Lights Out Work To Get Out Of The Cave
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Habit 7 Sharpen The Saw Renewing Ourselves. It
is Me Time

• I am sure all of us at one time or another have
  the feeling that our life is out of control. We
  feel
• Out of balance
• Stressed out
• Empty on the inside
• Habit 7 is designed to reacquaint us with the
  concept of renewing our lives.
• Why is it called Sharpen The Saw?

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Exercise Healthier Brains!
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Four Dimensions of Sharpening The Saw
Brain
Body
Heart
Soul
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Why is Balance so Important?

• Balance is important because what we do in one
  dimension will affect the other dimensions.
• In modern society many people are finding
  themselves out of balance.
• I would imagine at Canteen many of the folks you
  are working with could be struggling with one or
  more of these areas.
• Camp can be a real healing place, restoring
  balance and perspective, or teaching how to
  strengthen untapped areas in one of these four
  areas.

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Taking Time To Stop and Open Your Senses Brain
Research The Sounds Of Nature
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Meditation
Mental Preparation For Sport or Life
Visualisation
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Meditation And The Brain
Meditation has the ability to decrease stress and
increase feelings of wellness and happiness.
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The End But Hopefully The Beginning!
I didnt get a Canteen Bandana
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The End

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Letter Writing To Yourself

• During solo which takes place near the end of
  their time at Glengarry, students write a letter
  to themselves
• What were the 3 most significant events you had
  at Glengarry?
• What were the 3 most significant lessons you can
  take away with you after Glengarry?
• What way have you changed the most during your
  time at Glengarry?
• Which one of the 7 habits had the most impact on
  your life? How will you continue using this after
  GG?
• Imagine you could see into the future 12 months.
• What will you be like?
• What goals will you be chasing?
• What will your attitude be like?
• How will you have used the learning you had at
  GG?
• What would your perfect world look like?

This letter is collected sent 12 months later!